Three cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers but will graduate with bachelor’s degrees, the academy said Saturday.
Academy spokesman Dean Miller said that a fourth cadet who had refused the vaccine until about a week ago, decided to be vaccinated and will graduate and become an Air Force officer.
In a statement, Miller said that while the three will get a degree “they will not be commissioned into the United States Air Force as long as they remain unvaccinated.” He added that a decision on whether to require the three to reimburse the United States for education costs in lieu of service will be made by the secretary of the Air Force.
As of Saturday, the Air Force is the only military academy, so far, where cadets are not being commissioned due to vaccine refusal. All of the more than 1,000 Army cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduated and were commissioned as officers earlier in the day and all were vaccinated.
The Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, said Saturday that none of the Navy or Marine Corps seniors there are being prevented from commissioning due to vaccine refusals. That graduation is later this week, and the Air Force ceremony is Wednesday in Colorado. Ahead of that ceremony, the U.S. Air Force Academy Board conducted its standard review of whether this year’s class had met all graduation requirements on Friday.
The AirForce has more leftys in it – based on personal experience….
Read the Fine Print > Military Owns You !!!
You Don’t get to REFUSE in the Military !!! Don’t like it , then Don’t go in !!!
Colorado is so blue these days.
This is just so wrong! The government is really overstepping it’s bounds. How much more are we going to put up with?
Have to follow orders even to your death in the military !!!
Govt OWNS you in the Military & your Freedom is LOST until you get Discharged !!!!!! FACT
the lucky ones. Not becoming canon fodder for the idiot in the white house!
This is so damn wrong by every stretch of the imagination. Did the government do all the work and put in all the time and hours to earn these commissions, I think not. Government sucks!!!
Can’t be an officer when you Refuse orders !!!!