Navy Lieutenant Still Persecuted for Refusing COVID Vaccine

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection by James Nault Thursday, February 9, 2023

Attended SOTU As Guest of Ted Cruz: The Navy threatened Lieutenant Levi Beaird with discharge, and is now torpedoing his career and demanding that he pay back over $100,000 for refusing the jab on religious grounds

On Senator Ted Cruz’s excellent Verdict podcast, the Senator told the story of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Levi Beaird, a top-rated Navy surface warfare officer, who refused to get the COVID vaccine on religious grounds. Senator Cruz invited Lieutenant Beaird to be his personal guest at the State of the Union address Tuesday night to highlight the Navy’s shabby treatment of Navy servicemembers even after President Biden signed the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (2022 NDAA), which stopped the military’s practice of discharging servicemembers who refused the vaccine.

Lieutenant Beaird not only is a top-rated Navy surface warfare officer, but he also graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree in national security studies. He was awarded “a $105,000 retention bonus, which is paid in installments. The education and bonus obligate him to serve three years as a department head. If he doesn’t meet the obligation, he must pay the Navy back for the cost of both.” And he expected to be assigned as the chief engineer on a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) out of Mayport, Florida.

But, Lieutenant Beaird “refused to receive the Navy’s mandated COVID-19 shot and was threatened with a discharge from the Navy. Days before he was to be involuntarily discharged, in March of 2022, a court decision in the case Navy SEALs 1-26 v. Biden stopped the discharge process.” The court found that the Navy’s 50-step COVID religious exemption review process, which resulted in a denial in all 4,000 cases, was “theater” and a “rubber stamp” for the automatic denials that occurred in each case.

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/navy-lieutenant-still-persecuted-for-refusing-covid-vaccine/

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[christian]

Regardless of the now acknowledged dangers of Co-vid and the even worse damages of the vaccines.  Probably worse than Agent Orange was/is.  As usual, i told you, you wouldn't listen again and again and again, into infinity and beyond!  DeniAL LIES UNENDING!  hOW YAH LOVE EM?
 

[Hoodat]

The government's demands of forfeiture of the retention bonus were made ex post facto.  Jabs were never an original condition for the award.