Image: Wikimedia Commons ((U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Noah Sudolcan, 2023)
An exemplary Air Force officer is losing her retirement after a Board of Inquiry abruptly closes the door on her.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Davis Younts, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer, who now serves as Maj. Kim Bitter’s legal counsel. Upon thoroughly assessing her career, he said, “She has had an outstanding career. No issues. No misconduct. You’ll find nothing negative about her service. Her character and integrity have never been questioned.”
Rather what has been repeatedly observed is the military pretending as though First Amendment rights do not apply to service members, the very individuals who have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
During the COVID-19 era, Maj. Bitter filed a request for a medical exemption from the shot due to a preexisting health condition. Even though a doctor advised her against the shot, the military rejected her request. She also filed for a religious accommodation, but that request was denied as well. Violation of her rights, number one, but read on about the impending atrocities.
Younts said, “Major Kim Bitter was literally eight points—two drill periods— away from having 20 good years of service.” She was just one drill weekend away from being eligible to retire from the Air Force Reserve.
Maj. Bitter would be out-processed to Inactive Ready Reserve and placed in a no points, no pay status for two and a half years as punishment for opposing the shot, which has now been declared “unlawful as implemented.”
“Because of the no points, no pay status that she’s been put on,” Younts said, “she’s been prohibited from reaching 20 years [to become eligible for retirement].”
Despite being allowed to return to drill, she was again put on a no points, no pay status over her objections to the flu and typhoid vaccines, resulting her discharge from the Air Force Reserve.
This week, Maj. Bitter was sent to a Board of Inquiry (BOI) facing accusations of “dereliction of duty, unlawful drug use, and violating a lawful order to get the flu vaccine and typhoid vaccine,” Younts shared.
“What came out and was clear from the Board is no in command or in JAG channels realized that dereliction of duty is not a legally sufficient basis to discharge someone [emphasis mine].” Why wouldn’t the Board or the JAG officers be aware of this?
The accusation involved nothing more than being blamed for failing to complete a task during a power outage at Travis Air Force Base, which prevented her from accessing the systems needed to perform the work assigned to her.
Younts said, “She was also accused of drug abuse for using a substance that was recommended to her by a physician, was not a controlled substance, and she voluntarily disclosed it in her medical records to a military provider.” He clarified, “She took something for seven days that doesn’t require a prescription and isn’t a controlled substance.”
Yet, without authorization, this medical provider then disclosed that information to her chain of command. Consequently, she was interrogated without being informed of her rights and was falsely portrayed as a drug user, said Younts.
The Board made the correct judgment on two of the outrageous accusations against Maj. Bitter. “They found there was no dereliction of duty and there no evidence of drug abuse,” Younts shared. “She was cleared of these charges.”
However, he said, they did determine she disobeyed an order to receive the flu and typhoid vaccines, and it was recommended that she be separated from the Air Force with an Honorable Discharge. “They found no other misconduct other than not getting the flu or the typhoid vaccine.”
But here’s the problem with this determination: Maj. Bitter attempted to submit both a medical exemption and religious accommodation to the vaccines and these were not processed [emphasis mine] by her chain of command.
With requests for exemption and accommodation completely ignored by Air Force chain of command, consider the gravity of being just eight points—equivalent to two drill periods or two drill weekends—shy of retirement, only to be forced to leave the Air Force to which you devoted your entire life. Is this the service War Secretary Pete Hegseth wants people to join?
Despite the challenges she faced, Maj. Bitter continued to persist in encouraging others to join the military. Now, isn’t that the essence of the character and integrity of a warrior that should be expected from military officers? Unlike the Boards that keep shutting the door on the nation’s finest.
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