Air Force approves first religious exemption requests for COVID-19 vaccine

By Mike Brest

Published February 9, 2022 3:46pm ET

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Air Force approves first religious exemption requests for COVID-19 vaccine — Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. | (Vernon Bryant/AP)

The Air Force has granted a handful of religious exemptions for the coronavirus vaccine, marking the first time it has approved such requests.

The service branch announced on Tuesday that it had granted nine exemptions on the basis of religion, one of which was approved through the appeals process. These nine airmen bring the grand total of service members to get such a request approved to 12, the other three being Marines.

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