{"id":822741,"date":"2021-09-28T06:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=822741"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:21:30","slug":"navy-seals-told-theyre-undeployable-if-they-dont-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-seals-told-theyre-undeployable-if-they-dont-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEALs Told They\u2019re Undeployable If They Don\u2019t Get a COVID-19 Vaccine: Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnavy-seals-told-theyre-undeployable-if-they-dont-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-lawyers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=822741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-navy\">Navy<\/a> SEALs have been informed by superiors that they won\u2019t be deployed if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine, even if they\u2019re granted a religious or medical exemption, according to lawyers representing the elite special operations troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019ve been told is if they apply for a religious accommodation, they will no longer be deployable,\u201d R. Davis Younts, who is representing seven SEALs and is in talks to take on approximately 20 others, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Parlatore, whose firm represents a number of SEALs and other service members concerned about the vaccines, said his clients have also been given a similar ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p>Some SEALs have even been sent home mid-deployment for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine, one of his clients told him.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons the SEALs don\u2019t want a shot are the same as many unvaccinated Americans. They believe they have so-called natural immunity, or protection against reinfection after getting COVID-19 and recovering. And a subset are Christians who don\u2019t want any medicines that are developed using cells from aborted fetuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are not anti-vax, they just\u2014given the extraordinarily low risk of COVID to them and the substantial risk of unknown long-term effects of the vaccine\u2014they aren\u2019t comfortable with it right now,\u201d\u00a0Parlatore told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The exact number of SEALs considering not getting a vaccine isn\u2019t known, but both Parlatore and a pastor who is advising some of them say it\u2019s in the hundreds. The loss of that many SEALs could devastate the elite force, which has 2,450 active-duty members. So far, lawyers have not been successful in attempts to convince military leaders to alter the harsh mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after U.S. drug regulators in August approved Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/defense-secretary-orders-us-troops-to-quickly-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19_3964787.html\">ordered troops to get a shot<\/a>. Austin directed the heads of every branch to draft requirements, which are all similar. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynavyhr.navy.mil\/Portals\/55\/Messages\/ALNAV\/ALN2021\/ALN21062.txt?ver=Vbl_3soAE1K4DhYwqjSGLw%3d%3d\">a vaccine mandate<\/a> on Aug. 30 that said active-duty Navy personnel would have to be fully vaccinated, or have a full vaccine regimen, by Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense (DoD)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/pentagon-service-members-can-request-exceptions-to-covid-vaccine-mandate_3943561.html\">has previously said<\/a> troops can request exemptions, but no exemptions were outlined in the order and sailors were told they would face punitive measures if they don\u2019t comply.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy declined to answer questions for this article. The Naval Special Warfare Command did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4019497\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-seals-1200x1699-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1699\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4019497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-seals-1200x1699-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"906\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Navy SEALs participate in a joint rescue exercise with Cypriot Navy special forces in Limassol, Cyprus on Sept. 10, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Younts is pursuing religious exemptions for his clients while Parlatore is primarily focusing on medical exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jeff Durbin, who heads Apologia Church in Mesa, Arizona, is ministering to some of the SEALs. He says they\u2019ve gotten required vaccines in the past but are worried about what they see as insufficient safety data, particularly regarding long-term effects. The two main vaccines were authorized in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey see this as a violation of the government\u2019s responsibilities and role in terms of being able to mandate a new technology that\u2019s never been employed before with very suspicious, and even alarming safety data,\u201d Durbin told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Federal health officials say that trial data and information from other sources show the vaccines are safe and effective. Critics note that the number of reports of adverse events and deaths following vaccination has skyrocketed and is much higher for COVID-19 vaccines than any other type of vaccine. The Pfizer and Moderna shots use messenger RNA technology, which is new and had not been used in approved vaccines before.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the SEALs have verified they\u2019ve been infected with COVID-19,\u00a0the disease caused by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>, in the past. That means, according to experts and a slew of studies, that they enjoy a high level of immunity against reinfection. But there\u2019s no acknowledgment for the immunity in the mandates. U.S. requirements have virtually all ignored natural immunity while some European countries allow it as an alternative to vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatural immunity has not been taken into consideration. In the past for the vaccines there was a denoted exception or accommodation that can be made for someone if they had the immunity, or serology showing it, they wouldn\u2019t have to take that vaccine. That\u2019s not the case in this vaccine,\u201d Younts said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers are trying to convince the military to ease up on the mandate and approach the situation differently, especially in light of the anthrax vaccine program, which was deemed illegal and left many service members with adverse reactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever there\u2019s something like this where they provide very little information about the safety of the vaccine, and instead just threaten everybody \u2018take it or else,\u2019 that causes natural resistance,\u201d Parlatore said. \u201cDon\u2019t forget, this is the same community that was given the anthrax vaccine without proper safety protocols, which a judge ended up stopping. So DoD unfortunately hasn\u2019t built up a lot of trust with forcing people to take relatively new vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WEB_ZacharyStieber-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Stieber\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Zachary Stieber<\/p>\n<p>Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zachary Stieber covers U.S. news, including politics and court cases. He started at The Epoch Times as a New York City metro reporter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy SEALs have been informed by superiors that they won\u2019t be deployed if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine, even if they\u2019re granted a religious or medical exemption, according &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}