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Requirement. there will be some amount of guard members who dont want to be vaccinated and they will get disciplined and that will be a story. the deadline of thursday for the air national guard, its turning into a little melodramatic showdown. earlier the republican governor stitt fired the head of the national guard and replaced him with a new general who issued a new order on his first day in charge saying, quote, no oklahoma guardsmen will be required to take the covid-19 vaccine notwithstan...

Order, the governor of oklahoma actually sent a formal request to the pentagon asking for permission for oklahoma national guard troops to ignore the federal vaccine requirement. today the pentagon gave them a formal response. this is a letter from defense secretary lloyd austin to governor steve stitt of oklahoma. it was obtained by nbc news. it says, all members of the oklahoma army and air national guard regardless of duty status must follow the directions of the secretary of the army and the...

One that has a shoot yourself in the foot quality, particularly for members of the oklahoma air national guard and national guard who may be following state guidance here that is going to end their military careers regardless of whatever the governor says. i told you this was going to go badly. its going badly. watch this space. h this space the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me... with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ♪ fe...

Governor tells the oklahoma newspaper tonight that governor stitt maintains his position that the governors, the commander in chief, are all members of the national guard while they are all channel 32 status, meaning they are not actively deployed on a federal mission or training. so neither side is backing down. we called the oklahoma national guard today to see what this will actually mean for their members. they said as far as they know, the orders still come from the governor and have not ch...