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Pentagon goes to court to defend vaccine mandate for troops
Washington Times ^ | Monday, December 27, 2021 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 12/27/2021 3:18:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Pentagon‘s battle against COVID-19 vaccine holdouts is headed for the courtroom.

While the big question centers on whether the U.S. military has overstepped its legal authority by ordering all service members to be vaccinated, the battle is expected to play out across several fronts over the coming weeks and months.

The Defense Department is facing multiple high-stakes legal fights rife with national security implications. This includes clashes with Republican governors who claim full control over National Guard forces and the Pentagon‘s hard line against troops seeking COVID-19 vaccine waivers on religious grounds.

The cases will encompass matters of federalism, First Amendment rights, and other key questions forming the backdrop for what has emerged over the past year as the most controversial military health initiative in U.S. history.

Active-duty coronavirus vaccination deadlines for each military service went by weeks ago. With thousands of service members still refusing immunization and seemingly willing to lose their careers over the matter, the Marine Corps, Army, Navy and Air Force are now faced with kicking out the unvaccinated.

Army Public Affairs has indicated the Pentagon will start removing unvaccinated soldiers “beginning in January.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: vaccinemandate
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1 posted on 12/27/2021 3:18:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They aren’t vaccines. They are mutation-causing drugs in an injection.


2 posted on 12/27/2021 3:20:06 PM PST by Baldwin77 (Democrats CANNOT win without violence and/or cheating)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are now starting to require Covid 19 boosters in the military, and a 3 shot requirement total.


3 posted on 12/27/2021 3:21:55 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We now know: the upper echelons of the US military are now completely compromised, and are willing for every soldier, airman, and sailor to DIE to protect the Deep State’s genocide/genetic modification program.


4 posted on 12/27/2021 3:22:16 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The vax doesn’t work in the first place.


5 posted on 12/27/2021 3:22:28 PM PST by bray (The Vax is fake)
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6 posted on 12/27/2021 3:23:17 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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The Left has wanted to abolish the military since the 60s


7 posted on 12/27/2021 3:24:45 PM PST by digger48
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In a serious country, the Pentagon leadership defending their illegal position on this one would be arrested in the court based on Mark Milleys treason and incompetence, alone.


8 posted on 12/27/2021 3:25:52 PM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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Exactly! Traitors to the troops and our Nation.
“Let’s Go Flag Officers!”


9 posted on 12/27/2021 3:30:17 PM PST by pke
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Claim Psalm 91 for those who do not wish the vaccines and boosters as well as you and your family. https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Ps.91


10 posted on 12/27/2021 3:30:29 PM PST by Maudeen (You are either one with God or one with satan. There are no fence sitters in Heaven. Choose Jesus!)
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Wait? What? Where?


11 posted on 12/27/2021 3:30:50 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
At Reception Center,Fort Knox,October 1969 they lined us up and we filed through as a medic on each side of us had a gun which,IIRC,administered several injections at once. Nobody I know of thought of challenging that practice. I certainly didn't.
13 posted on 12/27/2021 3:36:56 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Would you say you have learned a lot more about how untrustworthy the US feral government is since then?


14 posted on 12/27/2021 3:38:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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BioNTech leader says COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t stop omicron variant!
Desert News ^
Posted on 12/27/2021, 3:15:53 PM by MNDude

The COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t be enough to combat the omicron variant, according to Ugur Sahin, the CEO of vaccine developer BioNTech.

“We must be aware that even triple-vaccinated are likely to transmit the disease,” he told French daily Le Monde. “It is obvious we are far from 95 percent effectiveness that we obtained against the initial virus,” he added. He added that the vaccine is now 70% to 75% effective against stopping COVID-19 infection. RELATED

Omicron variant is resistant to vaccines, antibody treatments and boosters, study says Can the Moderna COVID booster shot defeat the omicron variant? Sahin said vaccine efficacy has been dropping against omicron, which is a sign that the vaccines aren’t enough, according to Euro News.

“There will be a loss of effectiveness against Omicron over time, it’s very likely, but it’s still to be measured how quickly. I will not base predictions on preliminary laboratory data but on real-life data, which is much more appropriate,” Sahin said.

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15 posted on 12/27/2021 3:38:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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I sure hope someone reminds the Court of when the government used the troops to test the effects of radiation from A-bombs. So many of them developed cancers and died. I have the book “Human Radiation Experiments”. It’s as chilling as what’s being done to us now with the Covid “vax”.


16 posted on 12/27/2021 3:50:39 PM PST by ryderann
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I sure hope someone reminds the Court of when the government used the troops to test the effects of radiation from A-bombs.


17 posted on 12/27/2021 3:55:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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Shouldn't the military deliberately have some that are vaccinated and some that aren't, just to be safe?

They could probably cover both with volunteers.

18 posted on 12/27/2021 3:59:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Woke management in the military needs to be eradicated at all levels and leadership (since there is none, just managers) needs to be installed that’s hard hitting with it’s sole purpose of training to kill any enemy.

Just about everything going on in the military now needs to be refocused.


19 posted on 12/27/2021 4:01:09 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘eff the Pentagon.


20 posted on 12/27/2021 4:01:59 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Jesus is the reason for the Season, NOT Chinese made "presents" from an evil empire.)
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