At what point will this vaccine nonsense just stop?

 

Four seniors at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado may 

not be able to graduate alongside their fellow cadets because they have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Those seniors, also called 'firsties' face being fired from the military, getting a letter of reprimand - and could be on the hook to repay the government about $200,000 for their tuition, The Gazette reports. 

They had all applied for religious exemptions to refuse the vaccine, the Gazette reports, but their applications had been denied.

Now, spokesman Lt. Col. Brian Maguire said they can either get the vaccine prior to the academy's graduation in two weeks - or they can 'elect to voluntarily resign.'

'Otherwise, they will face consequences for disobeying a lawful order,' Maguire told the Gazette.  

But so far, the Air Force Academy is the only military academy that is barring its seniors from graduation due to their vaccination status.

The decision to let them graduate may ultimately be decided in the courts system, where multiple service members who have been discharged for refusing to get the vaccine are suing the federal government, which first mandated vaccines last year.

 

The seniors, though, are part of more than a dozen cadets who face 'administrative separation' for not getting the vaccine after their requests for a religious exemption were denied.

There are also two juniors, one sophomore and six freshman at the US Air Force Academy who have refused to get the COVID vaccine.

Military leaders claim their refusal amounts to disobeying an order, noting that service members have long been required to get other vaccines to ensure the health of the force.

Students who were not already vaccinated receive several shots on their first day at the academy, including shots for measles, mumps and Rubella, and they get flu shots every year in the fall.

But advocates for the college seniors say they should be allowed to refuse the vaccine on religious grounds.

Former Colorado State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, for example, labeled the unnamed students 'evangelical Christian cadets, who are pro-life, and they object to the fact that the vaccines were tested on aborted fetal stem cell lines.  

'Because of their objection to abortion, their conscience will not let them … inject this particular drug into their own bodies,' he told the Gazette. 

'That's why they won't take the vaccine,' he continued. 'It's not because they hate all vaccines.' 

Klingenschmitt has now planned a rally outside of the Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs, saying: 'There's only one person who can change his mind right now, and that is the superintendent, three-star Gen. Richard Clark.

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