U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption from the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said.

“There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective about using a religious exemption,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a press briefing on Aug. 10…

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Service members also will be able to apply for medical exemptions, Kirby said…

A service member can’t request an exemption just because he or she doesn’t want to take the vaccine, Kirby said…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Aug. 9 that the Department of Defense would require all active-duty military members to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

“I want you to know that I will seek the President’s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensure, whichever comes first,” Austin said in a memo sent to all Pentagon employees…

Austin didn’t mention the possible exemptions, and a Pentagon spokesperson declined to answer at the time.

President Joe Biden expressed his support for the mandate almost immediately…

According to Pentagon, more than 73 percent of active-duty military members have received at least one shot of the vaccine to date.

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(Excerpted from The Epoch Times. Article by Li Hai. Photo Credit: Canva).