National Guard recruit’s family cut from enlistment ceremony over COVID rules, Republican claims
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A National Guard recruit's family is being kept from seeing his Oath of Enlistment ceremony due to lingering effects of COVID-19 pandemic policies, a GOP lawmaker claimed.
"I recently spoke to a South Dakota constituent who is being denied the opportunity to witness her son raise his right hand and take the Oath of Enlistment to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic’ for the South Dakota National Guard due to the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command (MEPS) guest policy related to COVID-19," Johnson wrote to Col. Megan B. Stallings, commander of USMEPCOM. Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital.
"During COVID-19, families were prohibited from attending swearing-in ceremonies for military personnel," he wrote. "Despite the Department of Defense rescinding this policy in January 2023, MEPS is now operating under a visitor pilot program that currently excludes U.S. National Guard enlistees’ guests from attending enlistment ceremonies."
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