By Bethany Blankley (The Heart Sq.)
Roughly 40,000 Nationwide Guard and 22,000 Reserve troopers who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccines have been minimize off from their navy advantages, in keeping with the U.S. Military.
“Troopers who refuse the vaccination order with out an authorized or pending exemption request are topic to antagonistic administrative actions, together with flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,” an Military spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
As of July 1, this included 13% of the Military Guard and 12% of the Reserve, in keeping with the announcement.
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Moreover, not one of the 3,000 spiritual exemption requests filed by these within the Guard and Reserve had been granted. Refusal of spiritual exemption requests is in step with all branches of service, as reported by Liberty Counsel and the Thomas Extra Society, who sued on behalf of navy members, contractors and civilians whose spiritual exemption requests had been denied.
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin argued in his directive issued final August that requiring all energetic obligation members and civilian workers to obtain the pictures was mandatory for navy readiness. The mandate got here at a time when the U.S. navy is already struggling to fulfill recruitment targets.
Navy service members had been required to take the vaccine or be discharged, pay again scholarships, schooling or different coaching prices, be disciplined and even face court docket martial.
“Joe Biden’s COVID shot mandate has prompted and continues to trigger many service members to endure critical accidents and even demise,” Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, advised The Heart Sq.. “The abusive and unconscionable strain on members of the navy has resulted in low morale and even suicide. Extra service members have died in 2021 from the COVID pictures than have died from COVID since 2020. Biden’s mandate is undermining navy readiness and significantly weakening America.”
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Jonathan Hullihan, the lead lawyer for Texas for County Residents Defending Freedom, advised The Heart Sq. that the U.S. navy “is the most effective geared up, greatest educated, most deadly preventing pressure within the historical past of the world due to the all-volunteer pressure that fill the ranks. Throughout all branches, navy recruitment and retention charges are falling to historic lows and threatening the all-volunteer pressure and the power of america to reply to threats all over the world.”
As a result of Nationwide Guard and reserve personnel complement active-duty forces in occasions of nationwide emergencies, he argues, forcing 60,000 out of the Military “will instantly threaten the nationwide safety of america with coaching and operational readiness.” It additionally will result in “short- and long-term harm” to the U.S.’s capability to reply to international threats, he mentioned.
Hullihan, who served as a Navy JAG officer for over 13 years, is asking on Congress to intervene.
“We’re shedding a lot of our greatest warriors with actual fight and management expertise from the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of struggle, which can’t be changed. If navy management fails to painting a candid and correct risk to the Biden Administration that these actions instantly threaten america Nationwide Safety, Congress should intervene,” he mentioned.
In response to Military.com stating that the COVID-19 “vaccines have some uncommon negative effects, together with coronary heart irritation that has affected at the least 22 service members, in keeping with a research from the JAMA Community,” an lawyer working with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and whistle blowers within the U.S. navy are pushing again in opposition to the vaccine mandates.
Legal professional Thomas Renz, who participated in a Jan. 24 roundtable with Johnson, has shared “damaging proof” in regards to the “hazard of those alleged vaccines.”
One whistle blower represented by Renz, Lt. Col. Pete Chambers, advised The Heart Sq. in an unique interview in February that after 39 years of service, he was being pressured out of the Texas Military Nationwide Guard for his dedication to offering knowledgeable consent in regards to the required pictures. Chambers, the primary Particular Forces Operations Surgeon for the Inexperienced Berets, has raised issues in regards to the vary of negative effects, together with myocarditis.
Renz printed DMED knowledge figuring out the commonest will increase in diagnoses amongst service members after receiving the pictures together with a 2,181% enhance in hypertension, a 1,048% enhance in illnesses of the nervous system, 894% enhance in malignant neoplasms of the esophagus, 680% enhance in A number of Sclerosis, 551% enhance in Guillain-Barre syndrome, amongst many others.
The Division of Protection didn’t reply to questions raised by Johnson, as an alternative responding to Politico by saying the information Renz posted was a glitch.
Renz is demanding transparency from the federal authorities and has printed a spread of information out there without cost on his web site.
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He asks if the DMED knowledge he initially printed was “legitimately incorrect then why has the DoD not gone on file beneath oath? Why have they not supplied a official reply to Senator Ron Johnson’s quite a few inquiries?” he advised The Heart Sq..
He additionally says his workforce has “seen additional proof of DoD knowledge manipulation within the type of altering previous MSMR experiences with out clarification. The continued coverup and unwillingness to submit any clarification beneath oath the place cross examination is feasible show what can solely be known as the most important coverup in American navy historical past.”
Worse nonetheless, he argues, the 60,000 being pushed out of the Military represents solely a fraction of the entire quantity.
“The actual quantity, in keeping with navy knowledge, is way greater,” he mentioned. “We reported a while in the past that, in keeping with a leaked doc we obtained from a navy whistleblower … the actual quantity … not totally vaccinated, as of Jan 12, 2022, totaled over 500,000 or almost 25% of our navy (roughly 440,000 had been reservists). Does the Biden Pentagon plan to kick out 1 / 4 of our navy whereas recruitment ranges are a catastrophe or do they actually anticipate us to imagine that 440,000-plus troopers simply determined to conform since that date?”
When requested about responding to Johnson’s questions, the Pentagon advised The Heart Sq. it might “reply to the writer of the letter.”
It didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark about complete numbers of these within the navy being pressured out.
Syndicated with permission from The Heart Sq..
