Oklahoma Governor Stitt has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin requesting the Department of Defense “immediately consider suspending the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for national guardsmen in Oklahoma.”
Governor Stitt cited the willingness of these men and women to put their lives on the line for their country. Then he noted practical concerns such as regular extreme weather patterns and the importance of having a full, ready force.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino, appointed this week by Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) as adjutant of the state’s 10,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen, on Thursday notified those under his command that they are “not required to receive the vaccine and won’t be punished if they decline it,” the report added.
“It’s an extraordinary refusal of Pentagon policy and follows Stitt’s written request to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin seeking suspension of the requirement for Guard personnel in the state,” the report noted.
“We will respond appropriately,” John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesperson, said of Stitt’s letter. “That said, Secretary Austin believes that a vaccinated force is a more ready force. That is why he has ordered mandatory vaccines for the total force, and that includes our National Guard, who contribute significantly to national missions at home and abroad.”
Last Tuesday, 26 Navy SEALs sued to halt the vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
Nine other Navy personnel involved in special operations joined the action, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court’s Northern Texas District, including five special warfare combatant craft crewmen, three Navy divers and one explosive ordnance disposal technician.
The plaintiffs, listed anonymously to protect their classified and confidential locations, claim they’ve been threatened with court-martial or involuntary separation from the service.
The plaintiffs claimed various reasons for seeking religious exemptions, including objections to the alleged use of “aborted fetal cell lines” in the development, testing, or manufacture of the COVID-19 jabs.
“Multiple plaintiffs,” the complaint alleges, believe “God instructed them” not to receive the vaccine. One said they have a “sincere religious belief” that “trace animal cells … such as from swine” should not be injected into their body.
More than ten Republican states are currently suing the Biden administration over the mandate. Also, a federal appeals court affirmed a prior appeals court decision to temporarily halt the latest Biden vaccine mandate as “staggeringly overboard.”
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SORRY GENERAL BUT THE GUARD BELONG TO THE STATES NOT THE PENTAGON OR WHITE HOUSE UNTIL THEY ARE FEDERALIZE IN TIMES OF WAR. SO PISS THE HELL OFF AUSTIN !!!!
Eisenhower warned us about the deep state throwing us staggeringly overboard and they did go there as we are on our own now.
Be of good cheer, the huge Marxist iceberg of destruction is up ahead for the statist utopian dupe dullards of the hiveborg.
The workers utopia is just a smoke screen for burning it all down for ever.
The globalist CCP/world Soviet prize of the former USA will be delivered by the Long Marching traitorous fifth column of apparatchik nomenklatura? (hopefully not)
Austin is an OBVIOUS Nazi. Only Nazis Coerce or Force Medical procedures upon the UNWILLING. According to NUREMBURG CODE, Austin needs to DIE. Good Nazis are DEAD NAZIS. Rabid Dogs are PUT DOWN. These Dogs have pissed on America enough. Time for their DUE, with a ROPE around their Nazi NECKS. …SNAP!!!
General “Gumby” Austin is just another Joe schit the rag picker Affirmative Action load of coal. He’s a marionette with big lips and a head full of wool!
Austin, A blue gum brillo headed affirmative action load of coal!