Pete Hegseth Vows to Reinstate Troops Fired Over COVID Vaccine — With Backpay and Apology (VIDEO)

Amid all the chaos of Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, you may have missed this promise he made.

Shortly after the Biden regime seized power in 2021, they ordered a vaccine mandate across the entire military.

As a result of this diktak, over 8,000 service members were forcibly discharged, regardless of their rank or military accomplishments.

During Tuesday’s hearing, Hegseth was asked by Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana whether he would be willing to “recruit those folks” back who lost their jobs due to the vaccine mandates. 

“I will commit to this because the Commander in Chief has committed to this,” Hegseth replied.

“Not only will they be reinstated, they will receive an apology, back pay, and rank that they lost because they were forced out due to an experimental vaccine.”

Watch the clip below:

Pete Hegseth just announced that thousands of troops who were fired over the “experimental” COVID vaccine will be “apologized to and reinstated with pay and rank.”

Absolutely huge news.

These are some of the best troops we’ve ever had with unshakable courage to do what’s right. pic.twitter.com/3hntqFHC73

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 14, 2025

Donald Trump made a similar commitment on the campaign trail last August.

“A thousand service members from our military for refusing their COVID vaccine mandate,” Trump said at the time.

“You just can’t do that,” he continued. “I will rehire every Patriot who was fired from the military with an apology and with back pay.

”They will get their back pay and an apology from our government.”

BREAKING: President Trump has announced that all military members who were discharged for refusing the COVID mandate will be reinstated and receive full back pay, along with a formal apology from the United States Government. pic.twitter.com/wwJbvxQo6q

— Larry (@LarryDJonesJr) August 21, 2024

Members of the U.S. military were far from the only from the only ones to lose their jobs due to the Biden vaccine mandate.

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll carried out in November 2021 found that around one percent of all American adults had been forced to quit their jobs because of mandates imposed by local or federal authorities.

In just under a week, some of those people will finally get justice.