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In a video that was played during an anti-vaccine-mandate rally in Los Angeles on Sunday, six brave active-duty Marine pilots came forward in a public display to take a principled stand against the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate.
The mandate was ordered into effect by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last August.
Six pilots, including the first female Marine F-35C pilot, all speak about the impact on their lives in the video since they have stood against and opposed the vaccine mandate. All of them are facing a military discharge, loss of benefits, and other forms of punishment for not obeying the directive.
Marine Lt. Col. Scott Duncan, who is a former Top Gun instructor and F-35 pilot, is first up in the video. He stated that he was competitively selected to command an F-35 squadron, but the honor was revoked because he refused the vaccine.
“I was competitively selected to command an F-35 squadron. That achievement took 18 years and seven months and was recently taken away because my religious accommodation and appeal both came back denied,” he recounted.
Marine pilots refusing to take the vaccine will be discharged and lose all benefits. While on the other hand, illegal aliens come across our borders every day and are not required to have vaccines and they get all benefits. And they've never risk their lives for this nation.
— Pastor Carl Gallups (@CarlGallups) April 12, 2022
Marine Capt. Nick Morrison, who is an active duty Marine F-35 pilot with approximately six years of service, is staring down the barrel of a discharge because his religious accommodation request was denied.
“Absent intervention from our judicial branch or our senior military leadership, I face involuntary separation from our beloved corps after my religious accommodation request was wrongfully denied. These injustices being carried against an officer are likely occurring at even greater scale to our junior Marines. When we took the voluntary oath of service, we did not surrender our constitutional right to exercise religious freedom,” he contended.
Marine Capt. Joshua Hoppe, who is an MV-22 Osprey pilot with over nine years of service, asserted that if the mandate is not retracted, “I will likely be removed from service, charged with misconduct, and the educational benefits that I’ve transferred to my children will be removed.”
“This mandate infringes on our religious freedoms and is being unlawfully enforced. I have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I will not abandon that oath,” he courageously declared.
Why do we keep rolling over, allowing the Marxist parasites to infest
and destroy the entire foundation of our country?— PTC50218🤔🧐😜😎❤️🇺🇸 (@ptc50218) April 12, 2022
We don’t roll over for them.
They just keep coming.
There is a lot of loot to share among their fellow parasites if they can take power.
That keeps them motivated to continue attempting to take control.
Thank God the USA has so many decent people who resist the left’s pure evil.— ProfessorPublius (@ProffesorPubli1) April 12, 2022
Marine Capt. Catherine Stark, who is the Marine Corps’ first female F-35C Lightning II pilot, turned to her faith over the issue, “This past year, the policies in place have led to me being personally targeted and discriminated against. I pray to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that the military can reverse the mandate and respect my religious and moral beliefs as well as my legitimate health concerns.”
Marine Lt. Col. Hank Hortenstine, who served as an instructor pilot for multiple helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft with three combat deployments, has been grounded for refusing the jab.
“Now I’ve been grounded and I’m being processed for punitive discharge because of my religious and conscientious objection to the shot mandate,” he stated. “These stories you’ve heard today are ours. However, it bears repeating that we stand today for tens of thousands of service members in similar circumstances or even worse. Over 1,000 have already been punitively discharged under similar grounds. We stand today for truth, religious liberty, and in fulfillment of the oath that we took to support and defend the Constitution.”
The last of the Brave…❤️🇺🇸
— PTC50218 (@ptc50218) April 12, 2022
Marine Lt. Col. Jonathan Reed, who is another Top Gun graduate and an F-18 pilot who has served for over 18 years and has been deployed 5 times, claims he has been removed from senior positions within his units while awaiting a determination on the appeal of his religious accommodation denial.
“Resulting from our quest for religious accommodation from COVID vaccines, I’ve been removed from senior positions within my units and I am awaiting final adjudication of my religious accommodation appeal,” he remarked. “Like thousands of other military service members, I face likely administrative separation from service. I stand here with you, and with thousands of other service members, at great risk in the aggressive defense of our Constitution and of our religious beliefs.”
Over 1,500 Marines have now been discharged because they objected to the vaccine mandate. They are not alone as approximately 800 sailors, 100 soldiers, and 250 airmen have also been booted over it. Thousands more are expected to join their ranks.
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There should be a class action suit that goes all the way to the Supreme Court over this.
These highly skilled and dedicated Marines are basically being threatened by our “government”. If one of these pilots were Muslim and they used their religion as a reason not to be vaccinated, that request would be honored though. Once again, double standards !
I’d rather have any one of these Marines as my president over what we now have. At least they understand what an OATH means.
The Dems “HATE” the military PERIOD! “Their” ballots were deliberately “LATE” from overseas for the Obama “election”, so they wouldn’t count. Too boot the Dems have done EVERYTHING to DESTROY the military.From “WOKE” & CRAZY mandates, to FORCING everyone to get the “vaccine”regardless of religious beliefs”, these SCUM in Washington are doing EVERYTHING to diminish the armed forces. It’s a DISGRACE! Come November, “Let them REMEMBER”!
Somebody needs to get some kind of fund started for these heroes. They will lose all their benefits and source of income. Just not right!!!!🤨
I am sure glad I retired in 2003, miss All This Stupidity going on in The Corps today.
On top of not being “vaccines”, the drugs do not work against Covid, or any of its variants, including Omicrons 1,2, 3 and 4? FJB
Not only does the vax not work as advertised but it is weakening the health of all who get it so the overall health of our military is very precarious now.
I will make a decision of whether I will get a vaccine shot, just as soon as the government shows me a vaccine. What they are falsely promoting as a “vaccine” is not. To qualify as a “vaccine”, a drug must meet 5 specific criteria. These dangerous, RNA altering drugs do not meet any of the criteria to be called a “vaccine”, much less all 5.
I’m totally sick of the cowardly Dimocrats doing all they can to weaken the military that they were/are afraid to join. Getting rid of the cream of the crop like these pilots and others is just phase two of Obama’s getting rid of General and Flag Officers who were military and not the political sycophants that they want around them.
It’s time to enact the Constitution and take action against ALL Liberal, Communist. NOW !!!
This screams of arrogant stupidity.
It isn’t a VACCINE. They do not produce vaccine against viruses because viruses mutate. I would argue it is more similar to an annual flu shot. How many variants do we have with Co-Vid now 4 or 5? Democrats are secular and do not understand there is a valid conscientious objection to accepting the injection of an untried experiment into our bodies.
Barb, you are right! Even though there are many commonly used vaccines that are used everyday across the world for years with great success; you should tell the millions of doctors and medical professionals giving vaccines that they (vaccines) won’t work because you determined that the viruses just mutate and go on infecting. Maybe there is a valid conscientious objection to accepting the injection of an ‘untried experimental’ vaccine that have been used MILLIONS of times and studied for safety for years by best trained scientists on the planet.
Studied for years? How did HIV work out?
I am sorry to learn about you and HIV.
All for a vaccine that isn’t a vaccine. Bull.
WOW! In Los Angeles on Sunday, six brave active-duty Marine pilots came forward in a public display to take a principled stand against following orders while in the military. They chose what they thought was best for themselves and ignored all military discipline by not responding to direct orders. We need more heroes like this that will chose what THEY want to do instead of chain of command they are sworn to follow. I can’t wait for the whole military to decide for themselves what actions to take – because they did their own research!
When it comes to constitutional oaths, I certainly wish President Squint would honor his. He isn’t.
Well i guess these people will have to go into mexico then come back illegally to get all kinds of benefits plus a new smartphone😁
It warms my heart to know that we still have great Marine Corps Officers that will stand by the courage of their conviction and understand the oath that they took when they joined the Marine Corps. I hope and pray that when all is said and done that the people who implemented these mandates/policies as well as the ones who continue to enforce them are brought to justice and it may be a justice that God brings upon them. They may escape the corrupt system they have built for themselves but they can’t escape God’s will.
Semper Fi 1969-1989
Amen, my brother. Semper Fi.
With some of the Generals first in line, behind this administration.