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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday to reinstate thousands of US service members who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, a White House official told The Post.

Trump, 78, is preparing to make good on a 2024 campaign promise by bringing back more than 8,000 members of the US military, restoring them to their previous rank and providing back pay and full benefits.

The order will cover active-duty or reserve service members who were kicked out for not taking the COVID jab mandated by the Biden administration between 2021 and 2023.

Just 43 of the roughly 8,000 removed returned to their service branch after the Biden administration scuppered the mandate, according to the White House.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the same pledge during his confirmation hearings earlier this month, saying that he stood by the president's promise that each discharged troop "will receive an apology, back pay and rank that they lost."

Hegseth also acknowledged the reinstatement of troops pushed out because of COVID mandates while speaking with reporters outside the Pentagon Monday morning.

Samuel Sigoloff — an Arizona doctor and former Army major who left the service due to the mandate and wrote medical exemptions to the mandate for troops in his care — said the executive order was welcome news, but that the damage has already been done in eroding his faith in the services.

"It may not restore my trust in the military, but this kind of mak[ing] people whole again, as best that can be done, will help [recruit] future generations to use the military as a way ... to help the country again," he told The Post.

"But if the country just overlooks this, I think it would be very difficult for future generations to go, 'Well, look, yeah, they mess up sometimes, but they at least make it right,' because if they don't make it right, then you can't say that."

While Sigoloff said he still would not want his son or daughter to serve in the military after his experience, Republican lawmakers are hopeful that the executive order will help inspire more Americans to join up, with recent recruitment numbers slipping to pre-World War II levels.

"During the worst recruitment crisis in the fifty-year history of the all-volunteer force, Joe Biden kicked troops from our military over an illegal mandate," Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told The Post. "Thank you President Trump for righting this wrong and standing with our warfighters."

Former Green Beret Capt. John Frankman, who also chose to let his contract expire rather than comply with the vaccine mandate, called the executive order "a crucial first step in addressing the significant damage caused by the COVID vaccine mandate."

"Thousands were forced out due to the mandate, and many unvaccinated service members who remained still face lasting career setbacks," said Franklin, who insisted that "more action is needed."

"True recovery requires addressing the full scope of the harm and holding leaders accountable for enforcing this unlawful mandate," he said.

Houston-area attorney Sean Timmons, who has represented multiple veterans affected by Biden's mandate, including Sigoloff, said that even though the requirement was later revoked, Trump's executive order was needed to "make whole" the troops who were forced out.

"The [2023] National Defense Authorization Act [that repealed the mandate] didn't really address remediation of individuals' careers, [instead] inviting people to reapply to seek relief with the board of corrections — which is a very bureaucratic process, it takes years," he told The Post. "So really, you put everybody in this gray, dark hole to get relief, like, 'OK, take a number and wait.'

"The executive order is about actually implementing redress promptly and effectively, with authority that says people need to be made whole quickly — quite different than the previous grants of relief, which were, for lack of better description, pretty half-assed."

The negative effects of the mandate are wider than covered by the executive order, Timmons said, noting that it will not cover reparations for troops like Frankman and Sigoloff, who left the service voluntarily due to the mandate.

"I applaud President Trump for reinstating our brave men and women in uniform with backpay who were wrongly discharged from the military because they refused the COVID-19 vaccine - something that should have never happened in the first place," Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told The Post in a statement. "Joe Biden's shameful treatment of our Nation's heroes will be a dark stain on our country's history.

"I was proud to lead the charge against Biden's illegal vaccine mandate on our brave servicemembers and will continue to stand alongside President Trump to make this right," he added.

The Coalition for Military Excellence advocacy group said that it "stands in full support of President Trump's executive order to reinstate our brave service members who were ruthlessly and mercilessly thrown out of the military for making a personal medical or religious decision."

"These thousands of courageous men and women who have been on the literal front lines of defending our country have had to deal with the severe repercussions of getting booted from the military, and President Trump's administration has made it very clear that this is unacceptable," CME President Nicole Kiprilov told The Post in a statement. "The least we can do for them is reinstate them with benefits and back pay."

Dave Hamski, a former US Army captain and airborne company commander who was forced out for not taking the jab or forcing his paratroopers to do so, told The Post the executive action was "not yet a win" and called for a commission to identify tens of thousands more adversely affected by the Biden administration's COVID policies.

"Nearly 90,000 service members, not just the 8,600 involuntarily separated, had their careers adversely impacted by the vaccine mandates," Hamski said.

"I publicly stated a year after exiting the army that I will serve this nation again, whether in uniform or not. The question is whether that will be to secure accountability or after it has been administered. I prefer the later."