A group of GOP senators criticized the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate while seeking a ban on dishonorable discharge directives for unvaccinated service members. Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and First Liberty Institute’s general counsel, Mike Berry, held a press conference Thursday morning here they slammed President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for the military. The senators also discussed the COVID-19 Vaccine Dishonorable Discharge Prevention Act—a bill Marshall introduced in September to prohibit dishonorable charges for service members not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. The bill was introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act FY 2022. “I joined the Navy at 18 years old. I served as a rifleman,” Scott said during the press conference. “I never imagined that our federal government that I took the oath to defend the freedoms of this country, will come back and say, ‘if you don’t …