Overall, the U.S. military has seen over 14,000 requests for religious exemptions to the Pentagon's vaccine mandate for all military service members.
Military officials have said that religious exemptions are rarely granted for the up to 17 other vaccines service members are required to get, and therefore COVID vaccine exemptions should be treated the same way, the AP reported.became the final military service to announce its intention to discharge service members refusing to comply with the mandate, putting 3,350 soldiers in jeopardy of being removed from that branch.
"Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation's wars," Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in the news release."Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness. We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.
The Marine Corps has discharged 469 service members, and the Navy has discharged 118, according to the AP. Update 2/8/22 6:17 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information and context regarding other military services. The Air Force has approved nine religious exemptions for the military's COVID vaccine mandate, while it has denied over 3,200. Above, a worker at a health center uses a needle to prepare a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine dose in Cardiff, Wales, on December 8, 2020.
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