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(LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden personally called and thanked a Coast Guard rescue swimmer on Friday for saving lives in the wake of Hurricane Ian, even as the guardsman expects to be booted from the military soon due to Biden’s own COVID jab mandate.

The White House announced in a Friday press release that Biden spoke with Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch to thank him and his Coast Guard colleagues for their “heroic work” “saving lives” from Hurricane Ian.

Loesch had rescued a disabled woman and her husband who were trapped in their bedroom after their roof had blown off and their sofa was lifted by hurricane winds to block their doorway. Loesch reportedly “kicked through a wall” to rescue them, and then went back to retrieve the woman’s wheelchair.

Biden reportedly spoke to Loesch for “close to seven minutes,” with a short recorded clip of their conversation shared to the military news site Terminal X.

The guardsman told Breitbart on Saturday that he expects to be kicked out of the Coast Guard in a month or two due to the denial of his request for a religious exemption from the COVID jab mandate, a Biden administration initiative.

“It just sucks that he thanked me yet the vaccine mandate is what’s kicking me out,” he told Breitbart, regarding his phone call with Biden. “I just love my job and I’m really good at it. It sucks. I feel like this is the job that I was born to do.”

Loesch said he did not want to bring up the subject of the looming discharge with Biden and “ruin the call,” Breitbart reported.

The guardsman did make the point that his being injected with the COVID-19 mRNA shot is irrelevant to his rescue work.

“If I had asked any of the people I saved yesterday if they wanted to come with me even though I am unvaccinated, every single one of them would have said ‘yes,’” he said.

Loesch is one of five rescue swimmers at Air Station Clearwater who remain unjabbed for COVID-19. Terminal X has noted that if they are all discharged, their rescue capability will be significantly impacted, since they are already understaffed, and the Coast Guard “has an incredibly high attrition rate” as well as “very difficult” training.

Over 1,200 members of the United States Coast Guard have joined a class action lawsuit filed September 16 by Thomas More Society attorneys seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent their involuntary discharge while also challenging the Coast Guard’s “across-the-board denial of requests for religious exemptions.”

The plaintiffs argued that the Coast Guard was violating the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with a policy that “violates … sincerely held religious beliefs.”

The lawsuit argues that the Coast Guard negatively pre-empted religious exemption requests, and stated that the “Coast Guard’s religious accommodation process was a ruse.”

The few approved exemptions “were for service members already slated for separation or retirement,” the lawsuit notes.

Moreover, some are now questioning why service members are being kicked out over a mandate implemented for a pandemic that has now been declared “over” by Biden.

Last August, at Biden’s direction, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the secretaries of all military branches to “immediately begin full [COVID] vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces” and “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.” The majority of service members complied, but tens of thousands remain unvaccinated, with many seeking exemptions.

In December, the military began discharging soldiers for refusing the shots. The discharges have prompted legal challenges that have so far been neglected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

These mass purges of qualified fighting men and women threaten soldier and pilot shortages in the tens of thousands, which only adds to broader problems of military readiness, troop morale, and public confidence.

While defenders of jab mandates are quick to stress that the military has long required soldiers to vaccinate against a range of diseases, previous vaccines were typically subjected to far more evaluation time before being put into widespread use than the COVID shots, which, by contrast, not only received extremely accelerated clinical trials but involve what has been called an “experimental” mRNA mechanism that had never before been deemed safe enough for public use.

An unprecedented frequency of adverse reactions to “vaccines” after the COVID shot rollout is documented by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which as of September 23 has received 2,311,949 vaccine adverse event reports, the great majority of which were reported in 2021, when the COVID shots were made available.

Data from the Pentagon’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) has been similarly alarming, showing that 2021 saw drastic spikes in a variety of diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average, including hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer, (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).

U.S. service members facing medical coercion over the COVID-19 shots or denied effective treatment can apply for Medical Freedom Fund Grants with the medical freedom nonprofit Truth for Health Foundation by clicking here.

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