Wed Sep 29, 2021 – 4:40 pm EDTWed Sep 29, 2021 – 4:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — One of the U.S. military’s most elite special operations forces will punish troops who refuse the COVID shot for religious reasons, the Epoch Times reported Tuesday.
According to the report, highly-trained and specialized troops serving in the U.S. Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams (Navy SEALs) were told by their superiors that the unvaccinated among them will not be permitted to be deployed on missions with their team-members.
The restriction even applies to SEALs who have a sincerely held religious or conscientious reason for rejecting the jabs, according to lawyers representing some of the elite troops.
“What they’ve been told is if they apply for a religious accommodation, they will no longer be deployable,” R. Davis Younts told the newspaper.
Younts, a lawyer representing seven of the troops, is reportedly looking to represent an additional 20.
As reported by the Epoch Times, the SEALs were presented with a document signed by Commander Liam Hulin, head of the Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command.
The document advised the SEALs that special operations personnel, including Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, “who refuse
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