All of my OIC's, SNCO's, NCO's commended me in my decision. I had a Staff NCO that said to us getting seperated in the corpmans office

"You guys are doing what all of us wanted to do, but didn't have the courage to do so. For that I fucking respect the shit out of you guys"

He left us with a oora and left.

I had my OIC come to me and tell me that he commended me, and the navy seals for standing up for what is right. And that it was wrong for them to be doing this shit. All over a politicized experimental vaccines.

I had lances and corporals tellin me "fuck ya, freedom baby" and shit like that lol.

I have a vet Marine that I work with at work that respects my decision.

Im not being ostracized by the Marines, which is what I was afraid of. All of the ones I have spoken to (and there were quite a few) understand and respect my decision, but also felt sad that I was not going to be with their unit anymore.

I was left with a Farewell and following seas from my perso, and I checked out.

I DID have one master sgt who kinda grilled me just a little bit about it sayin shit like "ooh well you got a whole shit ton of vaccines in bootcamp whats different about this one?" to which i responded "it's an experimental vaccine msgt" (I wasn't about to argue with a master sgt guys keep that in mind) and he was like "well ok its your decision man" signed my checkout sheet and i left. He's a cool guy.

All in all, its bittersweet that my enlistment ended this way because of the brotherhood that you make in the military. But i certainly feel like they are backing me up regardless