Navy Commander Fired for ‘Failing to Abide by Lawful Order’

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for making us aware that on December 10, 2021, Commander, Naval Surface Squadron 14, Capt. Ken Anderson, relieved Cmdr. Lucian Kins as executive officer of USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) due to loss of confidence in Kins’ ability to perform his duties,” Lt. Cmdr. Jason Fischer said. He was relieved for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine and refusing to be tested for the disease.


A Navy warship commander who refused to get the COVID-19 jab or put up to checking out to show he did now no longer have the virus changed into fired from his process because the govt officer of the USS Winston Churchill. Cmdr. Lucian Kins, 39, who changed into terminated on Friday, is the primary naval officer to be fired over vaccine refusal. He reportedly asked a non secular exemption to the navy's vaccine requirement, however changed into denied and is attractive the decision. The Pentagon has made the vaccine obligatory for all provider contributors, and Navy employees had till past due November to get their photographs or request exemptions. Thousands of provider contributors have requested for non secular exemptions, however to date not one of the navy offerings have authorized one. It stays uncertain presently if Kins can be reinstated to his function if his attraction is authorized. He has but to touch upon his ousting. Kins changed into relieved from his obligations as 2nd in charge of the USS Winston Churchill, a destroyer, with the aid of using Navy Capt. Ken Anderson, commander of Naval Surface Squadron 14. Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Jason Fischer declined to offer the right motive why Kins changed into relieved of command, mentioning privateness concerns. He did, however, kingdom the motive for the firing changed into that Anderson misplaced self belief in Kins' capacity to carry out his obligations after he didn't obey a lawful order. Other officers alleged it changed into due to the fact Kins refused the order to get the COVID-19 vaccine and refused checking out to make sure he did now no longer have the virus. Kins has been reassigned to the group of workers of Naval Surface Squadron 14. Lt. Cmdr. Han Yi, the ship's plans and techniques officer, is quickly serving because the Churchill's govt officer till a everlasting substitute is diagnosed. The Navy did now no longer right now reply to DailyMail.com's request for comment. The USS Winston Churchill is presently stationed in Mayport, Florida on a scheduled 14-month renovation period, Fox News pronounced. Prior to Friday's firing, Kins changed into on course to grow to be the warship's commander in the subsequent 12 months and a half. Meanwhile, almost 5,731 lively responsibility sailors continue to be unvaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, officers showed to the Navy Times. The Navy has signed off on seven everlasting clinical exemptions, 326 brief clinical exemptions and 124 administrative exemptions to the vaccine mandate. Officials stated 2,705 sailors asked non secular waivers however to date none were authorized. The persisted push for vaccination comes as the brand new Omicron variation of COVID-19 keeps to unfold worldwide. Forty-3 Omicron variation infections had been diagnosed in 22 states at some stage in the primary 8 days of December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pronounced on Friday. Although the primary instances seemed to be mild, the CDC warned 'as with every variants, a lag exists among contamination and greater excessive outcomes.' Omicron has been deemed a variation of difficulty and is believed to be greater transmissible than the Delta variation, in line with the New York Times. It is stated to also comprise mutations make the variation extremely proof against the body's immune defenses and the already to be had coronavirus treatments. 'Even if maximum infections are mild, a surprisingly transmissible variation should bring about sufficient instances to crush fitness systems,' the CDC warned. 'The medical severity of contamination with the Omicron variation turns into higher understood as extra instances are diagnosed and investigated.' To date, 483 million Americans - or 60.7 percentage of the population - have acquired as a minimum one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2 hundred million US residents are absolutely vaccinated. Experts are urging Americans to take steps to gradual the unfold of Omicron with the aid of using getting vaccinated, sporting masks, practising social distancing and getting examined while needed.
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Epoch times copy of what was at the link you shared.
A U.S. Navy commander was relieved of his duties as executive officer of a warship for “failing to abide by lawful order,” officials said.
The Naval service on Friday relieved Cmdr. Lucian Kins, the executive officer of USS Winston S. Churchill, said the Naval Surface Force Atlantic in a brief statement.

“On December 10, 2021, Commander, Naval Surface Squadron 14, Capt. Ken Anderson, relieved Cmdr. Lucian Kins as executive officer of USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) due to loss of confidence in Kins’ ability to perform his duties,” Lt. Cmdr. Jason Fischer said.
A Navy official told USNI that Kins was relieved of his duties for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine and refusing to be tested for the disease. The Epoch Times has contacted the U.S Navy for comment.
Kins was reassigned to the staff of Naval Surface Squadron 14, Fischer added in the statement. Lt. Cmdr. Han Yi, the ship’s plans and tactics officer, will serve as the USS Winston S. Churchill’s executive officer until a replacement is named, said Fischer.

The Pentagon announced in August that COVID-19 shots would be mandatory for all U.S. service members, while the Navy gave its personnel until November to either request an exemption or get the vaccine.
Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby on Friday told reporters that each individual military service will have to determine how to enforce the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate.
“Those sorts of actions are not being handled centrally by the department at this level, at the secretary’s level,” Kirby said. “The service secretaries and the service chiefs are in charge of the way they are implementing the mandatory vaccine requirements. And each of them have to do that in accordance with their own manpower, their own resources, their own operational requirements, and they’re doing that.”
Kirby also said the Pentagon is considering mandating vaccine boosters for COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
“There are active discussions here in the department at the policy level about booster shots and whether or not to make those mandatory,” he told reporters Friday. “There have been no final decisions made about that.”
According to data from the Navy, about 5,731 active-duty sailors remain unvaccinated as of Dec. 9. The Navy also signed off on seven medical exemptions, 326 temporary medical exemptions, and 124 administrative exemptions.
The Navy has not approved any religious exemptions despite 2,705 active-duty sailors putting in requests.
The USS Winston S. Churchill is currently in a scheduled 14-month maintenance period in Florida.'

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It's truly sad someone has to chose between their career or sham vaccine, but I am glad he stood his ground.