Service members file lawsuit over Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, demand exception for those who had virus

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Two service members filed a class action lawsuit against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to halt a mandate that all troops receive the coronavirus vaccine and create an exemption for those who were previously infected with the virus because they have “natural immunity.”

Army Staff Sgt. Dan Robert, an infantryman at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Hollie Mulvihill, an air traffic controller at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., filed the lawsuit Aug. 17 in the U.S. District Court of Colorado for themselves and on behalf of all other similarly situated service members, Defense Department personnel and contractors who are documented coronavirus survivors ordered to get the vaccine.