Gov. Kevin Stitt named Oklahoma Adjutant General Thomas H. Mancino and his first action was to reverse an Oklahoma National Guard policy on Chinese coronavirus vaccinations.

Good.

Mancino did that after Stitt relieved then-Adjutant General Michael Thompson of his duties. Thompson held to the old policy that would require every Oklahoma National Guardsman to be vaccinated – whether it made sense or not or whether the soldier wanted to get the jab.

The new policy states that soldiers and airmen and women who do not wish to be vaccinated do not have to be while they are serving in state, said Lt. Col Geoff Legler of the Oklahoma National Guard. There may be exceptions if they go to school out of state.

President Joe Biden is throwing his weight around by ordering the military to take the shots even though soldiers may have already had the virus and have immunity or have medical/religious reasons for refusing an experimental drug that the liberal media calls “a vaccine.”

Stitt had appealed to Biden for an exemption for the National Guard because they are so necessary to protect our state and imposition of this unnecessary and potentially dangerous mandate could force maybe hundreds of soldiers to quit to protect their health. Stitt signed a state law that prohibits companies or government agencies from making vaccination mandatory.

“I hereby order that no Oklahoma Guardsmen be required to take the COVID-19 Vaccine, notwithstanding any other Federal requirement,” the new policy states.

According to the 10th Amendment, certain powers belong to the federal government and everything else is ruled by the state. The feds have no right to force anyone to take a drug against their will.