Civilian employees of the U.S. Army are racing against the clock to apply for medical and religious exemptions from mandatory COVID-19 vaccination because until recently the Army didn’t have a procedure in place for them to do so. Some employees call it unfair. Some even suspect the Army headquarters was slow to resolve the issue intentionally to pressure them into getting vaccinated. Army civilians need to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 22, but the Pentagon only considers them so 14 days after the final shot. That pushes the deadline to Nov. 8. Those who don’t get the needle or have their exemption paperwork in by the deadline face suspension without pay and eventually termination. Yet the Army only sent out the “Force Health Protection Guidance” on Nov. 1 to lay out “the process and forms to request medical and/or religious accommodations,” a civilian employee told The Epoch Times on the …