[FoxNews] The U.S. Navy quietly rolled back an order punishing SEALs who remain unvaccinated due to their religious beliefs, according to recent court documents.
The order, "Trident Order #12," disqualified SEALs seeking religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine from training, traveling for deployment and conducting other standard business. It was first issued on Sept. 24, 2021 by Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Lescher, and all special warfare forces were initially expected to come into compliance with the vaccine mandate by mid-October 2021.
The order specifically said that "Special Operations Designated Personnel (SEAL and SWCC) refusing to receive recommended vaccines based solely on personal or religious beliefs will still be medically disqualified," meaning that SEALs were designated as "non-deployable" if they submitted religious accommodation requests.
The order was put on hold due to a preliminary injunction issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in early 2022 as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP on behalf of 35 active-duty SEALs and three reservists seeking a religious exemption to the mandate.
However, according to a new filing in the lawsuit, the Navy quietly rolled back Trident Order #12 on May 22, 2022, a few months after the injunction was issued.
A communication order was circulated by the Navy on May 23 with the subject: "NSWC CLOSEOUT TO TRIDENT ORDER #12 - MANDATORY VACCINATION FOR COVID-19." NSWC refers to the Naval Special Warfare Command.
"This order rescinds reference A," it states, referring to "Ref A" as "Trident Order #12 on COVID-19 Vaccinations."
The May 23 communication order also said Navy commands "will continue to follow guidance, as appropriate, regarding COVID-19 vaccination, accommodation requests, and mitigation measures."
It is not immediately clear whether the Navy replaced the order with any other document or the reasoning behind Trident Order #12's termination. The Navy spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "The Navy does not comment on ongoing litigation."
According to a filing from plaintiff attorney Heather Gebelin Hacker to a Fifth Circuit clerk, the legal team representing the SEALs only became aware of the recession of the order on Sept. 1, months after it was rolled back.
"To the best of counsel’s knowledge, Trident Order #12 was not replaced. As the Court will recall, Trident Order #12 stated that SEALs who are unvaccinated due to religious beliefs are medically disqualified, though SEALs who are unvaccinated due to medical reasons are not automatically disqualified. Trident Order #12 also implemented the COVID-19 vaccine mandate at the command level for Naval Special Warfare forces, setting a deadline of compliance for October 17, 2021," the SEALs' legal team wrote.
"A copy of the order rescinding Trident Order #12 is attached to this letter. The rescission of Trident Order # 12 does not appear to affect the applicability of Navy or DoD-wide vaccine policies to NSW personnel—it just appears to remove the command-level direction," Hackeron continued.
The lawsuit representing unvaccinated SEALs, first reported by Fox News Digital in November, has since been amended to extend to a class action lawsuit encompassing all Navy service members seeking religious accommodation.
First Liberty's Senior Counsel and Director of Military Affairs Mike Berry told Fox News Digital, "Now that the Navy has rescinded this unlawful order, the only reason it won't allow our SEALs to get back to doing their jobs is because of their religious beliefs."
"America faces many national security threats, and the Navy is suffering a historic recruiting crisis. There's no good reason to keep these trained and experienced warriors from serving," Berry said.
In addition, during a recent deposition, Admiral Lescher, who issued the original Trident Order #12, stated he was "unaware" of any Navy SEAL combat missions that had been negatively affected by COVID-19, despite his earlier claim that the vaccine mandate was necessary for successful Navy operations.
Lescher, who serves as the Navy's second-highest ranking uniformed officer, stated in a sworn declaration before the Supreme Court earlier this year that allowing unvaccinated SEALs will cause "immediate harm to the Navy" and "to the national security of the United States" and could be considered a "dereliction of duty."
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The DOD, CDC, NIH, the EU and just about everyone one now knowing the C-19/22 quarterly given shot was risky and adverse reaction data was hid from the public. In short, basically a VAXCCIDENT waiting to happen.
Well, maybe not everyone, who knows What's or Whose in JB's head anymore.
Of course, there are other trains of thoughts:
1. an LSD Political Hail Mary to give the public some hope regarding the NIH/Wuhan team's deadly (planned?) mistake for an election year (accidental?) release.
2. And/or a process to make $$$ Billions of dollars and/or allow a Coup to conduct its clamp down of MAGA and/or institute a subversion agenda to steer the USA into a USSA remodeling.
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Some in-depth analysis at BuPers may have noted the forecast decline in SEAL replacement personnel for the JSOC war-on-whomever long term. That whole pronoun correctness, climate-change, EID and trans leadership emphasis isn't attracting the few men who can meet the actual standards?
[DAILYSABAH] The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... (OSCE) and the United States urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to deescalate tensions amid the recent flareup of violence on the border between the two countries.
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[IsraelTimes] Ex Trump aide and son-in-law hopes Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... puts more focus on expanding normalization deals, says solving Israeli-Arab conflict will bring prosperity
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former US president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and his senior White House aide, lamented on Monday that additional countries have yet to join the Abraham Accords under the Biden administration
"I think the biggest disappointment so far is that more countries haven’t been brought into it," Kushner said at a Washington event marking the two-year anniversary of the agreements hosted by his Abraham Accords Peace Institute and the pro-Trump American First Policy Institute.
Kushner was instrumental in negotiating the Abraham Accords — the normalization agreements Israel signed with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan in 2020.
Speaking during an on-stage interview, the former Trump aide revealed that before he left office, "I think that we had about six active discussions going on" with other prospective Abraham Accords countries. He didn’t name them.
US officials told The Times of Israel in January 2021 that the Trump administration had been closing in on agreements with Mauritania and Indonesia to be the next Moslem-majority countries to normalize relations with Israel, but ran out of time before the Republican president’s term ended.
"I think that there’s a lot more to build on. But I do hope that the current administration will focus on that and work to do that because once the whole Arab-Israeli conflict is over, I think that you will have an era of prosperity and peacefulness in that region that will endure for a very, very long time," Kushner said.
Biden officials have embraced the Trump initiative, but have also expressed discomfort with some of the methods used by the previous administration to negotiate the accords, namely the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the UAE and the recognition of Moroccan illusory sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region.
Still, they have worked to strengthen the existing normalization agreements, hosting multilateral forums with Abraham Accords members and expanding them to include other US and Israeli allies.
Biden also managed to convince Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... to open its airspace to more flights to and from Israel, in a step Washington and Jerusalem hope will bring Riyadh closer to normalizing ties with the Jewish state. For its part, Saudi Arabia rejected the notion that the move is a precursor to normalization with Israel.
[Rudaw] Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... on Monday said it has developed a suicide drone with exclusive capabilities to strike the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, the semi-official Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... reported.
Kiomars Heydari, the commander of the Iranian army’s ground forces, said that the Arash-2 drone is an advanced version of its predecessor and is designed to target the cities of Iran’s bitter rival Israel. How cute
"We have considered this drone specifically for the attack on Haifa and Tel Aviv," Heydari said, adding that the drone has "unique capabilities and can recover multiple times until it hits the target."
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned Iran on Tuesday not to test his country’s "long arm" in a video as he stood next to an F-35 stealth bomber plane, as his country continues efforts to jeopardize the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, which it views as flawed.
Heydari confirmed that the drone has been implemented into the army's arsenal and its capabilities will be unveiled soon.
Israel has vowed to stop at nothing to prevent its arch nemesis from obtaining a nuclear weapon as its efforts to ensure the nuclear deal does not materialize continue.
Lapid on Sunday traveled to Germany to convince European powers not to agree to the accord. His visit follows a joint statement from Germany, La Belle France, and Britannia, who raised "serious doubts" about Iran’s sincerity in returning to the deal a day earlier.
The statement from the European superpowers came after a report from the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ’ nuclear watchdog said that they were "not in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful."
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(six months later)
The remaining Iranian officials ask for UN intervention and rescue from radioactive debris while they continue to strike Israel with drones from undisclosed locations.
Meanwhile Israel continues its effort to glass over what used to be Iran, promising to turn their full attention to these 'undisclosed locations' once the primary task is complete.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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