Marines have claimed in a new report that they are being “crushed” by the U.S. Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, with the military branch declining to approve a single religious exemption application.
Several active-duty Marines told Fox News on Wednesday (Dec. 29) that some of the Corps’ “best and brightest” were being forced out due to the requirement.
One lieutenant colonel told the outlet the Pentagon was looking to discharge members “as fast as they can and as brutally as they can, damaging every Marine as much as they can on the way out.”
The officer claimed they were warned by a colonel: “Tread very carefully, this is political, you will be crushed like an ant.”