Jim Bratten
Our military is being seriously damaged by plans for its transformation, by forced infusion of warped, woke culture into its ranks. The Biden Regime, in one short year, has greatly advanced plans laid by its ideological predecessor, the Obama Regime. It has severely weakened our armed forces and the readiness level they need to maintain to successfully defend the United States of America.
Upon Biden’s occupation of the Oval Office, the agenda of Barack Obama was reinstated with purpose and the Constitution again ignored. Obama’s plan to flush the faithful out of government service in the U.S. Armed Forces began nearly a decade ago, but with the advent of COVID-19 injections and the declaration of a “pandemic,” a golden opportunity appeared, to accelerate the separation of Christians from the military. Those officers and enlisted personnel professing a religious objection to injection with an experimental drug were denied their constitutionally-protected religious rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. They were told, “Accept the shot under Biden’s mandate or leave.”
As reported by World Net Daily on March 26, “Amid the exposure of Defense Department data indicating an astonishing spike in serious illnesses and injuries correlating with the COVID vaccine rollout, the Army said it has now discharged 27 soldiers for refusing an order to receive the COVID-19 shots.”
The Epoch Times added, “The service [Army] said Thursday another 24 soldiers had been discharged in recent days… The Air Force has separated 212 airmen, as of March 15, while the Navy said Wednesday it has discharged 652 sailors.”
Biden’s Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, had announced last August that every member of the U.S. military branches must receive the COVID-19 vaccine to maintain readiness. But last month, World Net Daily reported, “…three Department of Defense whistleblowers have presented evidence from the Defense Military Epidemiological Database that shows a nearly 1,000% increase overall in diseases and injuries in 2021, compared to the previous five years.” These service members claimed a religious exemption to the injection, but all were denied their constitutional rights.
This is the result of orders that personnel must accept an experimental vaccine, under an emergency use authorization by the FDA, so Austin could “maintain readiness”? A 1,000% increase in soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen consigned to sickbay isn’t exactly improving readiness, but we aren’t really certain what the Biden Regime’s definition of “readiness” is. And we’re certainly unaware of what their definition of “emergency use” is. We’ve seen Biden’s definition of “success” in Afghanistan, so we’re not ready to accept another definition from their Progressive Dictionary. We simply request that our military command not mess with the health or constitutional rights of service members who may give their lives for the security of our nation.
Back in January, a federal judge’s ruling in Texas stated that “the Navy must allow special forces [SEALs] members to opt out of the vaccination requirement if they had religious objections. The order also barred commanders altering their assignments based on a refusal to be vaccinated.” A case also exists where the commanding officer of a naval 
warship had refused the injection on religious grounds, so he was removed from command of his ship, even though it was already deployed. Because he was not inoculated, his command was pulled from him, as if in lacking the injection he had lost his ability to competently perform his duties.
CNN reported in February that “out of approximately 16,000 requests,” Marine Corps brass “approved religious exemptions for six Marines and the Air Force has approved nine requests for exemptions.” (Emphasis added, Ed.)
Three federal judges had blocked the military from punishing members that sued over alleged violations of religious exemptions. Then March 25, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court’s ruling that prevented the Navy from restricting deployment of Navy SEALs who refuse injections!
Our adversaries laugh at America and our politically correct military. Does the DOD understand what their actions are doing to reenlistments and recruiting? Readiness will suffer and our military will continue to shrink, at a time when we cannot afford inept, woke military leadership who abandon their oaths to the Constitution and our nation.
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