Posted on 08/31/2022 9:02:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus.
The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day.
“They were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something,” the lawyer, Michael Rose, told the newspaper.
“No one helped them with travel arrangements or gave them any money,” said Rose, based in Summerville, South Carolina. “One had to get to California, one to Alaska. One’s estranged from home and living out of his truck, according to an email I received describing his situation.”
Rose said two of the seven cadets had no homes to return to.
The cadets’ names have not been released. Rose said academy officials were “particularly mean-spirited” and could have waited until pending lawsuits challenging the military’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement were concluded.
In one of those lawsuits, Rose is representing more than 30 plaintiffs, including military personnel and service academy cadets, in litigation pending in federal court in South Carolina. Several of the cadets are from the Coast Guard Academy.
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Unpopular mandatory vaccinations are are fantastic policy in a time where recruiting is crashing!
its going to be weird in 20 years being in the handful of still-living, along with my kids.
The PURGE of all individuals distrustful of the government continues.
The regime is doing whatever it can to dismantle every branch of our military, destroy morale, and generate chaos.
This cannot be an accident.
These people should quietly say thank you, and take the opportunity to get away from the political, woke, LGBTQ, war-mongering deep-state DoD apparatus ASAP.
They’ll come a time when this country needs real warriors, but right now, its Obama’s political Army.
You need a vax which has been proven not to work for a disease that has proven not to be deadly.
It makes sense that the infantile decline in character and abandonment of mission seen in the military at large today would filter on down to the academies.
Pure, purge, purge those who don’t follow the dictates. 1984 pols cutting the chocolate ration again. Next, room 101 and the rats until “Take Julia! Take Julia!”
Today’s military doesn’t want the traditional member any longer. They want woke over patriotism. They are using various methods to purge the ranks.
Good luck recruiting replacements idiots.
The application of Power despite overwhelming evidence its unnecessary, ineffective, and dangerous.
I find no comfort in the knowledge that our military is becoming less prepared for dealing with foreign enemies as each month passes.
They need a lawyer.
The destruction of the U.S. military continues.
5.56mm
The madness continues.
I am an old retired Coast Guard Commander who graduated from a fine institution a half century ago. It was a good school then and a good service. But political correctness has destroyed both. Sad!
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