The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Department of Defense (all members of the Armed Forces on active duty or in the Ready Reserve, including the National Guard)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 10 U.S.C. 113 'with the support of the President'
- Issued
- 2021-08-24 Aug. 24, 2021
- Effective
- immediately (read as 2021-08-24)
- End
- Rescinded Jan. 10, 2023 under the FY2023 NDAA (read as 2023-01-10)
- In force
- Aug. 24, 2021 to Jan. 10, 2023
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Vaccination or testing
- Addressees
- Secretaries of the Military Departments
- all members of the Armed Forces under DoD authority on active duty or in the Ready Reserve, including the National Guard
- Functions reached
- WF Guard and Reserve members employed in every civilian industry
- HR
- CB
- Collection
- Defense installations and the National Guard AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD
Operative words
I therefore direct the Secretaries of the Military Departments to immediately begin full vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces under DoD authority on active duty or in the Ready Reserve, including the National Guard, who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Enforcement
Lawful order; Service implementing messages (Navy NAVADMIN 190/21, Aug. 31, 2021; MARADMIN 462/21, Sept. 1, 2021, Ex. 147 where retrieved) with deadlines and separation consequences
Notes
Reaches the roughly 450,000 National Guard members whose civilian employers are the employers of Section G.