Posted on 10/02/2021 5:45:50 AM PDT by cutty
A United States Marine corporal who served in Afghanistan during Operation Freedom Sentinel and Operation Southern Vigilance is facing dishonorable discharge for refusing to take the COVID-19 shots as required by the secretary of defense.
Having been diagnosed with two heart conditions, arrhythmia and right bundle branch blockage, taking an experimental drug with unknown long-term side effects isn't a medical option for him, he says, especially since the shots have already been proven to cause blood clots and heart inflammation. However, he was informed that the only medical waiver he could receive was if he was diagnosed with congenital heart failure.
The nonprofit religious freedom law firm Liberty Counsel says it's "been inundated with heartrending pleas for help from military members who are being ordered to get the COVID shots or face discipline, including solitary confinement and dishonorable discharge." This Marine's story is just one of many.
"If I don't stand for what I believe in, I could never look at myself in the mirror again," the corporal said in a statement issued by Liberty Counsel. "This is everything I've fought for and taught my Marines and everything our Founding Fathers stood against. This is completely unconstitutional and goes against more than one Amendment."
All military members who refuse the COVID shots are facing dishonorable and bad conduct discharge for failing to obey a lawful order, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Non-compliance could mean a general court martial at the Divisional Commander Level, six months solitary confinement/imprisonment, and a felony charge.
The DOD even created a new disciplinary department, the COVID Consolidated Disposition Authority, or CCDA, according to messages released by the U.S. Navy to servicemembers. Last month, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said the new CCDA would decide what happens to sailors who refuse to get the shots, Military.com reported.
The CCDA would use "the full range of administrative and disciplinary actions," Del Toro said, adding that "until further notice" he wouldn't allow the CCDA to begin "non-judicial punishment, courts-martial, or administrative separation in cases of Navy Service Members refusing the vaccine."
But the U.S. Air Force warned, "Any refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, absent an approved exemption or accommodation, may be punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Military commanders retain the full range of disciplinary options available to them under the UCMJ."
Liberty Counsel warns that for members dishonorably discharged, the potential consequences are dire, including loss of eligibility for a range of important benefits, opportunities, honors and rights, including: VA home loans and medical benefits, educational benefits under the GI Bill, military funeral honors, reenlistment in another military branch, and the right to own a firearm — all for simply refusing to take an experimental drug.
The Department of Defense has issued deadlines for active-duty personnel to receive both doses. For the Air Force, it's Nov. 2; for the Navy and Marine Corps it's Nov. 28, and for the Army it's Dec. 15. The initial order was issued by the secretary of defense Aug. 24.
The order covers all on active duty or in the Ready Reserve, including the National Guard. It also states that "those with previous COVID-19 infection are not considered fully vaccinated" — although debate continues within the scientific community about whether natural immunity provides stronger protection against COVID than vaccine-induced immunity.
In response to the Pentagon mandates, a group of GOP Senators — Ted Cruz (Texas), Roger Marshall (Kan.), James Lankford (Okla.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) — introduced the COVID-19 Vaccine Dishonorable Discharge Prevention Act to prohibit the Department of Defense from dishonorably discharging service members who refuse to get the shots.
"It's an insult to our servicemen and women who have served with honor to dishonorably discharge them for refusing the COVID vaccine," said Cruz. "It is the same way we dishonorably discharge those convicted of serious crimes such as treason, desertion, sexual assault, and murder. Forcing all service members, including pregnant women and those who have already had COVID-19, to receive the vaccine is just one more example of President Biden and his administration putting politics ahead of science. I am proud to join Sen. Marshall on this crucial bill to ensure the proper steps are taken by the military chain of command in response to those seeking exemptions from this vaccine."
The DOD has posted a chart online detailing how many in each branch have received the COVID shots, broken down by employee category of active duty, civilian, or contractor. According to the department, more than 5.5 million doses have been administered, 1.2 million service members and over 317,000 DOD civilians are fully vaccinated.
With all due respect, he shouldn’t be in the fighting force. Either should freakazoid transgenders.
the Pentagram is KNOWINGLY murdering Patriots.
KNOWINGLY.
Americans mask:
“why dont they just go back
to bombing their own building.”
I don’t understand how he isn’t Medically Discharged.
Doesn’t a serviceman have to be court-martialed in order to be dishonorably discharged?
If hes a vet hes already separated from the military ...
Insanity. Complete insanity.
And that’s the charitable assessment.
Hmm. There needs to be some confirmation of this story. It’s unconfirmed and should be treated as such.
As others have noted, these medical conditions raise questions of fitness for service, especially the arrhythmia.
I think the title is incorrect. I think by “vet” they just mean he was in Afghanistan, but he’s still active duty.
It’s unbelievable how hardline the military has become about this. Hardline and near inhuman or devoid of empathy.
This is the same Joe Biden’s Military willing, even eager to pay for expensive sex change surgeries that would take a soldier out of commission for months at a time.
The same military that recently revised its policies on how black female enlisteds could style their hair and still be considered in uniform.
Trivial, BS issues are just fine, no matter how ridiculous they make our military appear around the world.
Permanent Exemptions may be granted indefinitely based on one of the following**:
Determination by a medical provider that further vaccination will seriously endanger patient’s health
Medical, Reactive exemption: Previously severe reaction after specific vaccine (e.g., anaphylaxis)
Medical, Immune exemption: Evidence of existing immunity (e.g., by serologic antibody test, documentation of previous infection or natural infection presumed)
**Indefinite or permanent exemptions may be revoked if an alternate form of prophylaxis is not available, if a medical condition or vaccination guideline changes, or if a provider experienced in vaccine adverse-event management determines that the risk of acquiring the disease is greater than the risk of vaccine exposure.
Yeah. You can be a veteran of past campaigns and still be active duty.
Misnaming the jab as a vaccine is a big win for Big Pharma corporations hoping to sell more of their products, and...
https://z3news.com/w/three-reasons-covid19-not-vaccine/
I’m wondering if our “leaders” are making our IRR personnel get vaccinated…
This is so stupid! No one is going too get a dishonorable discharge from the military for refusing to take the shot.
Rape, murder, sexual assault and AWOL — and other serious felonies are the criteria for a DD. Refusing the shot is insubordination. That in no way reaches the level of the criteria for a DD.
Bunch of media bull shit.
My sentiments exactly. Here’s why.
When I was 14 I had elbow surgery to remove calcium deposits from an untreated broken arm that pieces of the break migrated into the joint and calcium formed making me lose about 1/2 of my range of motion in my right arm before surgery. After surgery I have about 80% of normal range of motion and strength.
In 1972 when I graduated high school, I lettered in football, I tried to join every branch of the armed services and was rejected by each and everyone of them because of the noisy, the elbow used to crack and pop a lot for the first 10-15 years after the surgery when I did calisthenics especially push-up and pull-ups and lesser strength in the right elbow.
Hell, I could have done a lot of military duties and quite frankly at 67 I bet I could kick General Milley’s ass in any type of contest. Yet, no military for me but folks with heart conditions, amputees and now mentally ill are welcomed in. It’s not right.
I’m sure it will be an administrative discharge either under honorable or maybe general conditions. They just want him out of there.
biden has gone 100% insane with this vaccination obsession of his. He’s a very dangerous man. And almost no democrat and a few Republicans are willing to criticize him on it.
See page 6 and Appendix C of
“Table C-1
Medical exemption codes
....
MI Evidence of immunity (...by serologic antibody test”
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