US Officer Risked It All Refusing Pentagon Vaccine Order

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US Officer Risked It All Refusing Pentagon Vaccine Order, Navy Board Unanimously Confirmed He Did the Right Thing

By Warner Todd Huston
May 23, 2022 at 3:42pm

A U.S. Navy board delivered a rare rebuke to the Pentagon after finding in favor of a COVID-19 vaccine objector in a unanimous decision that questioned the lawfulness of the vaccine mandate.

The case that came before the Navy’s nine-member administrative separation board struck a blow for members of the U.S. military all across the board and could serve as a precedent — leading to the end of the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Navy Lt. William Moseley has over 22 years of experience and currently works as a systems test officer on the USS Bunker Hill. He states that he has over 22 years of experience, according to his Linkedin.

Moseley wanted to refuse to take the vaccine over religious objections, but upon learning that the Pentagon was issuing blanket denials for exemptions, instead of simply filing for the exemption, he decided to take his case straight to the board, according to Just the News.

“Lt. Moseley opposes the vaccine for religious reasons and could have submitted a religious accommodation request; however, when he learned that the Navy and the other services intended to implement a blanket denial policy, he began to prayerfully consider other options,” a press release from his legal representative read.

“After consulting with legal and medical experts, he became convinced that as an officer he had an obligation to take a stand against the unlawful order and be a voice for thousands of enlisted Sailors.

“Lt. Moseley risked his 22-year-career and his military retirement because of his faith and his commitment to his oath of office as a military leader,” the statement added.

The Pentagon has ruled that members of the military who have refused the vaccine are acting insubordinate.

The board ruled on Friday in Lt. Moseley’s favor and found that he “did not commit misconduct by refusing the COVID-19 injection” and ruled “unanimously that Moseley should be retained in the United States Navy.”

Mosely’s attorney, R. Davis Younts, based the case on the fact that the government cannot force members of the military to take “experimental” medications, and therefore, the COVID-19 vaccine mandate is not a lawful order, according to Just the News.

Indeed, Younts demonstrated that the initially mandated vaccine was not an FDA-approved drug and further showed that the military has not made the FDA-approved vaccine available to military members.

Younts added that with the favorable decision “we are encouraged that the truth was revealed in this Board, and we hope this ground-breaking case sends a strong message to the Department of Defense,” according to Just the News.

Lt. Moseley could have simply accepted retirement and finished with the whole situation, but he risked being cashiered out of the service dishonorably if the board had ruled in favor of the Navy.

It appears that Moseley is the first career officer to win his vaccine case before the board.

Any officer who has held his commission for more than six years has the right to appeal decisions before the board, and fortunately for Moseley, the board’s decision on retention is binding on the service.

Younts said that the board’s new precedent “puts the Navy in an interesting position” concerning other officers — and, perhaps, even enlisted personnel — who are threatened with separation over refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to the Military Times, about 3,400 members of the U.S. military have been involuntarily separated from service for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Most have been given a general discharge, which allows them to retain their veteran’s benefits and allows them to rejoin the military after proving vaccination.

The U.S. military began the process of separating soldiers from the service in December 2021.

The Times added that by April the Marine Corps dismissed one percent of its forces over the vaccine, releasing 1,968 corpsmen. Further, the Navy shed .2 percent of its force with 798 dismissals, the Army separated 345 soldiers, a .07 percent loss, and the Air Force dumped 287 airmen, a .04 percent reduction of its forces.

Like Moseley, there are still some service members in each branch working their cases through the system, so more dismissals are yet to come.

This lends credence to Lt. Moseley’s contention that the Pentagon had issued a policy of blanket denials of exemptions despite tens of thousands of requests across all branches. As of the April 27, the Air Force had only handed out nine exemptions, the Marine Corps approved three, and the Army but one, the Times reported.
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  • 05-29-2022, 05:16 AM
Let's see how the board rules if a service member refuses to be transferred to a war zone because of religious reasons.
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And he's absolutely right. The Comrinaty vaccine is the "approved" vaccine. The Pfizer Biontech is the EUA version... and that's what they are giving to the military which is, by law, illegal.

Our General Officer corp is trash for not fighting this.
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  • 05-29-2022, 07:57 AM
At what mortality rate would he have become a traitor?
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What is the Comrinaty vaccine? Sounds like something from a Dan Brown book.
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What is the Comrinaty vaccine? Sounds like something from a Dan Brown book. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

he's referring to the trade name for the vax


Interchangeability
FDA-approved COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine FDA authorized for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for individuals 12 years of age and older can be used interchangeably by a vaccination provider when prepared according to their respective instructions for use.
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yup, thats the official FDA approved vaccine which got its own official weird name. lol.
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At what mortality rate would he have become a traitor? Originally Posted by Brot
None. Forcing the taking of an experimental drug is specifically prohibited by US law. That's why EVERY officer should have said NO. It's not a legal order. If the vaccines were interchangeable then no need to relabel. It was simply a legal way to force the military to take an experimental drug. The comrinaty vaccine doesn't even exist in significant numbers to inject... but it was used to avoid the EUA regulations and voila... we can just inject the illegal stuff. That was done for money... The BIONTECH despite being under EUA (which means the liability shield is in place) is given in place of the drug that was approved and NOT under shield (Comirnaty). What this means they are injecting people under shield by slight of hand... saying they are the same... But the difference is when (not if) the medical side affects can no longer be denied, the pharma companies can say... sorry you took the BIONTECH which is liability shielded.

Americans who took that shot were lied to... particularly given the mortality rate of COVID. They aren't upset because most of them are too stupid and will ultimately get what they deserve when the heart issues and micro-clotting in the Lungs starts causing Heart attacks in numbers never seen before in age groups that ordinarily have little of few heart issues.
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he's referring to the trade name for the vax


Interchangeability
FDA-approved COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine FDA authorized for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for individuals 12 years of age and older can be used interchangeably by a vaccination provider when prepared according to their respective instructions for use. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
They are not interchangeable from the legal perspective. The liability shielded Biontech is being given based on the non-liability protected Comirnaty. So the "approved" drug is still shielded and in effect experimental.

Just better hope nothing goes wrong...