Posted on 01/30/2023 1:56:29 PM PST by george76
Reversal comes as Congress considers bill seeking redress for military's discharged vaccine refuseniks.
The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, reports military attorney R. Davis Younts, a reversal that comes even as Congress mulls legislation seeking redress for service members dismissed for vaccine refusal.
The Department of Defense rescinded the military vaccine mandate pursuant to the Dec. 23 enactment of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included a measure repealing the mandate.
During the height of the pandemic, West Point implemented a policy prohibiting cadets from traveling for sports or other events, according to Younts. After the vaccine was made available, only unvaccinated cadets were restricted from traveling. Then, last semester, while the military vaccine mandate was still in place, West Point dropped the policy, allowing unvaccinated cadets to travel for sports, the Army-Navy game, and other events.
After the Pentagon lifted the vaccine mandate, however, West Point reinstated the travel ban for unvaccinated cadets. Putting the "restrictions back in place" after the mandate was rescinded "feels like coercion" to force vaccination on the cadets, Younts said. He questions the "justification for the policy change," while acknowledging that West Point has the authority to reinstate the restriction
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While the vaccine mandate was still in effect, the unvaccinated cadets submitted Religious Accommodation Requests (RAR) for exemptions. After the requests were denied, they appealed the denials, which were also denied. After the denials of their RAR appeals, they requested medical exemptions, which were in turn denied, appealed and denied again.
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Building on the NDAA's repeal of the military vaccine mandate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with 18 other Republican senators and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) in the House, introduced legislation on Monday that would require the Defense Department to offer reinstatement to military members discharged over the vaccine mandate.
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Despite the lifting of the vaccine mandate, unvaccinated military members are still facing repercussions, including denial of benefits, ineligibility for promotion and/or deployment, and potentially diminished employment prospects for those already discharged.
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A total of 38% of National Guardsmen aren't vaccinated and were not permitted to drill under the vaccine mandate.
While the DOD claims around 8,000-9,000 service members were separated from the military over the vaccine mandate, Younts said that estimate doesn't include the thousands who "voluntarily" separated, retired, or were unable to reenlist.
You can’t just stop bullying.
Good luck getting white males to join your shit show.
Don’t do what we want and we just might leave you in a foreign country. Oh, forgot, we ARE now in a foreign country.
These people suck.
A far cry from the days of Eisenhower and McArthur.
Congress can control spending at West point. Congress can punish them.
These cadets are learning the most important lesson West Point has to teach.
“...they wouldn’t let poor Rudolph (unvaxed) join in any reindeer games...”
Makes me madder than hell.
Whoever is demanding this reversal is power mad and willing to make West Point look ridiculous just to pacify their fragile ego. I wouldn’t encourage any young ambitious person to join, at least not under this president or their own commanding officer.
Good luck getting white males to join your shit show.
This is the intention. They want brainless woke robots.
They get them. I sure wouldn’t want to operate a jet that Quantavious and Lupe were “maintaining”...
They = They’ll
It will take a conservative white house replacing the woke flag officers.
Avoid joining entities controlled by democrats
Unvaccinated cadets will be better off sustaining a football injury, getting medically separated, and have them pay you for the rest of your life.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Even the Aamerican military now understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Give the place back to Arnold...
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