American Military News After their requests for religion-based exemptions to a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members were denied by the U.S. Air Force Academy, more than a dozen of the school’s cadets remain in limbo and face “administrative separation,” an action that effectively “fires” them from the military, adds a letter of reprimand to their files, and — for some — could mean they’re on the hook to repay almost $200,000 in government scholarship money.
Four of those cadets — “firsties,” or seniors — won’t be joining their classmates for the May 25 graduation ceremony at the academy’s campus north of Colorado Springs, the lawyer representing three of them said Friday. Whether they receive their AFA degrees at all is a question that most likely will be decided in the courts, long after the caps have settled…
