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West Point reinstates travel ban on unvaccinated cadets

Dated: February 2, 2023 by Sharyl Attkisson 4 Comments

      

The following is an excerpt from Just The News.

The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the military's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, reports military attorney R. Davis Younts, a reversal that comes even as Congress mulls legislation seeking redress for service members dismissed for vaccine refusal. 

The Department of Defense rescinded the military vaccine mandate pursuant to the Dec. 23 enactment of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included a measure repealing the mandate. 

During the height of the pandemic, West Point implemented a policy prohibiting cadets from traveling for sports or other events, according to Younts. After the vaccine was made available, only unvaccinated cadets were restricted from traveling.

Then, last semester, while the military vaccine mandate was still in place, West Point dropped the policy, allowing unvaccinated cadets to travel for sports, the Army-Navy game, and other events. 

After the Pentagon lifted the vaccine mandate, however, West Point reinstated the travel ban for unvaccinated cadets.

Putting the "restrictions back in place" after the mandate was rescinded "feels like coercion" to force vaccination on the cadets, Younts said. He questions the "justification for the policy change," while acknowledging that West Point has the authority to reinstate the restrictions

"Is there suddenly a crazy spike in Covid deaths in West Point, New York," or is it because there isn't "anything left to coerce [the cadets] into compliance?" asked Younts. 

While the vaccine mandate was still in effect, the unvaccinated cadets submitted Religious Accommodation Requests (RAR) for exemptions.

After the requests were denied, they appealed the denials, which were also denied. After the denials of their RAR appeals, they requested medical exemptions, which were in turn denied, appealed and denied again. 

The U.S. Military Academy Office of Public Affairs and Communications told Just the News on Monday, "The U.S. Military Academy at West Point continues to follow Department of Defense's guidance regarding unvaccinated service members.

U.S. Army policy states unvaccinated service members are not eligible for official travel without prior approval from the Under Secretary of the Army. Until the policy is rescinded, West Point will continue to follow it."

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  1. Dan says

    February 2, 2023 at 1:15 pm

    Typical of fearful, controlling left-wingers.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/

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  2. Roberto Cobb says

    February 3, 2023 at 5:57 am

    ๐ŸŽถ Mommas, don't let yer babies grow up to be West Point cadets...๐ŸŽถ

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  3. Janine M Largent says

    February 3, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    Three decades an RN and I have never seen anything like this. These cadets more than likely have already had Covid and little to nothing is to be gained by jabbing them with synthetic genetic code for a strain that doesn't even exist anymore. Is it so shocking that thinking people might balk at having there genome hacked at will? So this is medicine now?

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