One other Motive the Montana VA is Kicking Volunteers to the Curb

They’ve one driver…and he is 90 years previous. This is a loopy replace to a narrative we first instructed you about final week the place the VA is kicking volunteer veteran drivers to the curb over a vaccine mandate.

After we shared the information on the radio from veterans in Sanders County, Montana, I heard from one other veteran in Polson. He instructed us how they solely had one driver to take Mission Valley residents to their VA hospital appointments in Missoula and Helena- and he’s 90 years previous.

Larry Ashcraft instructed me that a number of males stepped as much as volunteer and assist out, however as soon as the VA compelled a COVID vaccine on drivers- these efforts floor to a halt.

Nonetheless, Ashcraft, a veteran himself, says he was already vaccinated, so he tried to maneuver ahead with the method of volunteering. He began the method final October and is STILL ready to be accepted to be a volunteer driver for the VA. After getting response from contacts on the VA, Ashcraft says he lastly heard again from somebody two weeks in the past.

Ashcraft: They known as me about two weeks in the past, and mentioned that I wanted to take a listening to check, and possibly being at Polson the closest place I might take the listening to check was in Billings, Montana.

They needed him to drive the 828 miles to Billings from Polson roundtrip for a easy listening to check. Finally they known as him again to see if he might do the listening to check in Missoula. He says he nonetheless would not have a confirmed appointment for a listening to check, and also will nonetheless want a bodily.

Is not this loopy? Not solely is the VA kicking volunteer drivers to the curb over the absurd vaccine mandate, even when somebody bought the vaccine it takes a mound of paperwork simply to hit the highway. Even for someone who bought the vaccine, he is having to undergo a complete bunch of bureaucratic BS simply to easily be a volunteer.

This is the complete audio of our chat with Larry Ashcraft on Wednesday’s “Montana Talks with Aaron Flint:”