Posted on 12/01/2022 12:29:47 PM PST by lowbridge
Representative Greg Steube (R., Fla.) blasted the U.S. Naval Academy on Thursday after one of his constituents claimed she has been told she needs a Covid-19 vaccine to graduate.
“Think about spending four years of your life in college and then not even being able to get a degree for the work that you’ve done,” Steube said during an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday. “This is a young woman who wants to serve her country and all because she doesn’t want to take the COVID vaccine based on religious exemptions that are being refused by this administration and the DOD.”
The U.S. Naval Academy said in a statement to National Review: “There have been no midshipmen separated from the United States Naval Academy, nor denied a commission, for declining the COVID-19 vaccine.”
“There are a handful of midshipmen who have filed religious exemption requests to the COVID-19 vaccine,” the statement added.
Steube led a group of lawmakers in writing a letter to Naval Vice Admiral Sean Buck on Tuesday demanding answers about the student’s claim. Lawmakers argued in the letter that withholding diplomas from qualified midshipmen will hurt military readiness.
Steube said he believes the policy goes “all the way to the top,” adding, “It’s got to be Secretary Austin. It’s got to be Biden forcing these vaccine mandates on our military service members and then denying their ability under religious exemptions not to take it.”
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It used to be a free country.
And people wonder why the US military Academy’s and all the military service branches are having recruitment problems....
They can take their diploma and stick it!!
Hasn’t been for years and voting ain’t gonna fix that.
Is this legal?
I suppose it does not matter anymore
Military in general yes. Naval Academy is still getting 35,000 applications for a little over 1000 applicants accepted. Not hurting in anyway.
To enter the military now you need to be vaccinated and boosted. The omicron booster will also be required to enter or will be given as part of the shot line if they haven’t gotten it by indoc.
Naval Academy might be an blip exception?
From Sept.
‘Applications for West Point, Annapolis drop as recruiting woes hit service academies’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/7/applications-west-point-annapolis-drop-recruiting-/
To quote that famous line from Animal House….
“You f—ed up. You trusted us.”
🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
(It used to be a free country)
I remember that....long ago.....
The Air Force Academy also reports a 28% drop in applications between the classes of 2025 and 2026..
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...
Just guessing but, in the case of the military and academies, it must have trickled down from the Democrat Party via Senatorial Advice and Consent and through defense funding. And given that a lot of senior officers are Democrats, they might have opened a door for it.
Just outrageous!
We don’t need no stinking rule of law.
Austin is a disgrace as SecDef he needs to go along with former Admiral of the Queens Navy, Kirby.
This year I was summoned for jury duty in Los Angeles. The notice said that masks are required at all times in the court house.
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