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Military recruiting goals and actul number recruited

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Judith Collins,
The US military announced Jan 2025 that it would reinstate with back pay the 8000 workers who objected to Covid 19 vaccine mandates. Only 43 rejoined according to the December 2024 Whitehouse report here https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up... on page 384.

For 2020 onwards, would you please share
1 the NZ military recruitment goals by year; and
2 the actual number in NZ recruited each year from 2020 onwards.

3 please share any reviews, memos, comments and correspondence as the Minister of Defence on the recent Supreme Court decision dated 11 April 2025 that expelled and financially penalized four NZ military workers for not being vaccinated against Covid 19 . That Supreme Court decision is here https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/ca...

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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