Wed Apr 27, 2022 – 5:31 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – While much has been made of the military vaccine mandate’s ramifications for health, freedom, and military readiness, forcing the COVID-19 shots on established service members also carries a far more literal cost: squandering the millions of dollars that were spent training the soldiers being forced out.
The Epoch Times reported that the U.S. Air Force has rejected 5,259 religious accommodation requests, or more than 99% of the requests submitted, though it has granted 3,781 sought for medical or otherwise non-religious reasons. One analysis estimates the training of a single pilot to cost $5.5 million, meaning that even if only a third of those rejected religious accommodation represented a pilot, and if all those applicants are ultimately discharged from service, they would still represent the loss of a $9.5 billion investment.
Attorney and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is representing 36 Air Force members suing the Biden administration over the mandate, says his clients include 17 pilots, who represent a $93.5 million training investment.
“Most of them are very senior pilots, and the notion that we would fire these pilots that the United States
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