A whistleblower has come forward with information suggesting that the Pentagon may have provided misleading information about the distribution of FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines to the military. The individual, Sergeant Daniel LeMay (a pseudonym), an active-duty Air Force member, provided a leaked Pentagon health document to The Epoch Times. LeMay clarified that his views do not represent those of the Department of Defense or the Department of the Air Force and spoke anonymously out of fear of reprisals.
The document in question is the Army’s Medical Material Quality Control Message (MMQC-22-1268) dated May 25, 2022, which LeMay shared with The Epoch Times. The document was an “ordering … and implementation guidance” for the Pfizer BioNTech, Cominarty-labeled, Tris-Sucrose/Gray Cap vaccine for individuals aged 12 and older. LeMay believes that this document indicates the first-time ordering instructions for Comirnaty were issued and suggests that the vaccine may not have been available through other channels.
In August 2021, Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a vaccine mandate for the military, which has since been rescinded. The mandate stated that it applied to FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and guidance. A month later, the Pentagon issued a policy stating that the FDA-approved Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, issued under the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), are interchangeable. Some service members objected to this policy, arguing that the mandate only applied to FDA-approved vaccines and that the military did not make the Cominarty-labeled vaccines available until several months after the mandate was issued.
The Department of Justice, representing the Defense Department in the Coker v. Austin federal lawsuit, stated in a filing on May 20, 2022, that the Comirnaty-labeled vaccine was available for the Department of Defense (DoD) to order. However, Sgt. LeMay asserts that the Army medical document dated five days later contradicts this claim and suggests that the Department of Justice may have lied under oath.
Since Sergeant LeMay’s discovery, the Army has removed the document from their database, making it inaccessible to standard Common Access Card holders. However, LeMay had previously saved a copy. He also mentions that a few other documents are missing, although their nature is not disclosed. The Epoch Times reached out to the Pentagon and the Department of the Army for comment but did not receive a response.