A MASSIVE Wave Of Military Vaccine Lawsuits Are Coming, Get Ready

A MASSIVE Wave Of Military Vaccine Lawsuits Are Coming, Get Ready

Sept. 3, 2022

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The Department of Defense's (DoD) requirement that all members of the Armed Forces receive COVID-19 vaccinations, even if they've already had the virus and developed immunity, has had a severely disruptive effect within military ranks, resulting in the denial of promotions and assignments to those who refused vaccination and in thousands of service members having to leave the military.

The vaccination order has given rise to a spate of lawsuits and is likely to spur more challenges as more people come to see that officials who grant exemptions on other grounds are unwilling to accommodate those who file religious accommodation requests (RARs), service members and military experts have told The Epoch Times.

"I have talked to military members and no one likes this policy; no one thinks it's a good idea. I agree with them that this policy is going to backfire in a big way. It's going to force out people who are moral, ethical service members out of the military and will leave a readiness gap. But the other problem is this is a relatively untested vaccine and we're all just now starting to see what the health effects are," Susan Katz Keating, a journalist specializing in military affairs and the editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, told The Epoch Times.

The vaccine mandate has been enshrined in DoD policy as a consequence of President Joe Biden's July 29, 2021, order to the department to add COVID-19 to its list of required vaccinations. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's subsequent memorandum on Aug. 24, 2021, required each branch of the military to vaccinate all service members.

The order quickly met with resistance from military personnel seeking exemption on various grounds, from concerns about the safety and unknown long-term side effects of vaccines that they felt had been rushed through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process, to religious objections on the part of those who take issue with the use of fetal cell lines in the development of the drugs.

A Professional Soldier's View

Active-duty military personnel who spoke to The Epoch Times acknowledged broad disapproval of the DoD's stance on vaccinations, and some of them signaled that, no matter how mixed the results so far, legal challenges to the policy are just getting started.

Opposition runs high among military personnel, Rob Green, an active-duty Navy commander (O5) currently serving with Maritime Expeditionary Security Group Two, told The Epoch Times.

"I don't want to speak for 2.1 million of my friends, but I'll say that there are many who did not want to get vaccinated. They're being told that they have to, but common sense told these people that if a pandemic has a 99.99 percent survivability rate, and you're in the healthiest possible age group in America, `Why am I going to take this risk?'" Green said.

A New Challenge

Military personnel are not lying dormant in the face of what they view as an illegal and selectively enforced mandate.

Last week, 14 Marines residing in the states of Texas, Washington State, Louisiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina filed a class-action lawsuit in a federal court in Texas against Defense Secretary Austin. In their complaint, the plaintiffs, citing "sincerely held religious beliefs," claim that military officials have been inconsistent in their treatment of service members seeking exemptions. While, in theory, it is possible to seek an exemption on medical, administrative, or religious grounds, the last category does not carry any weight with DoD officials, the plaintiffs allege. "Religious accommodation requests are universally denied unless the requester is already imminently leaving the Marines," the complaint charges.

Military officials' refusal to grant exemptions on religious grounds is not only inconsistent with their willingness to exempt service members on other grounds but violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 and the Administrative Procedure Act, the plaintiffs claim.

The complaint lists a number of negative consequences for the careers and lives of those service members who refuse vaccinations. The DoD threatened those who refused to comply with court martials, involuntary separation from the services, negative performance evaluations, the loss of leadership positions, removal from consideration for promotions, the inability to retire in good standing, non-deployable status, denial of benefits and special pay, and the loss of leave and travel privileges, among other penalties and punishments.

Original: https://youtu.be/sKxXkRD4nZk

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/legal-challenges-pentagons-vaccine-mandate-just-getting-started-military-insiders-say

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