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A group of service members and veterans have proposed an executive order for President Donald Trump to consider.
Dubbed the President’s Commission on Military COVID-19 and Anthrax Policies (COMCAP), the group’s goal is to restore trust in the nation’s military following years of distrust as a result of previous anthrax and COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies.
Crediting those who helped him, primary author of COMCAP and retired Air Force colonel, John McAfee, told The Gateway Pundit that he appreciates the comprehensiveness of COMCAP.
For him, “The theory is that those who resisted the COVID shot are exactly the dedicated, reliable, properly oriented, and loyal public servants the military needs in service, not the leadership that trampled rights, shamefully withdrew from Afghanistan, and destroyed recruitment, retention, and readiness.”
According to McAfee, “Service members who left on principle won’t return for just backpay.”
He hopes President Trump will address the problem by “securing the rights of service members and preventing future abuses, restoring and rewarding those who fulfilled their duties, and holding oath breakers accountable.”
For him, “Their sacrifice needs to mean something and COMCAP delivers.”
Retired Navy Medical Service Corps officer Lt. Ted Macie agreed.
The military whistleblower explained that during his promotable years of service, he was denied religious accommodation for the COVID-19 shot. He not only appealed the decision but also sued former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
“Subsequently,” Macie said, “I was put under investigation and removed from my position for my last year of service, with no finding of wrongdoing.”
For this reason, Macie was forced to retire in September 2024 due to not promoting.
Macie is among dozens of individuals who contacted the author with concern about President Trump’s current executive order regarding military reinstatement, backpay and apology.
For most of them, the primary concerns are restoring trust and seeking accountability.
For this reason, he hopes President Donald Trump and incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will notice that a proposed Executive Order has been drafted by leaders in a community of service members and veterans who lived through the mandate and have a clear understanding of every nuanced case of injustice related to its tyrannical enforcement.
With the restoration of trust and accountability in mind, The Gateway Pundit also spoke to Robert A. Green, Jr., an active duty Navy Commander (CDR) and author of “Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines.”
On January 1, 2024, CDR Green and 230 other service members and veterans released an open letter, commonly referred to as the Declaration of Military Accountability.
The document calls for accountability over the harm caused by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) implementation and enforcement of the now-rescinded August 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate.
“Our admirals and generals destroyed the trust of hundreds of thousands of service members in denying their rights, and gaslighting them with a false “safe and effective” narrative,” CDR Green shared, emphasizing that his views don’t reflect those of the Department of Defense or Department of the Navy.
“The restoration of our military must not end with the 8,600 who were unceremoniously kicked to the curb, [as] we must also make an effort to repair the numerous other harms that were inflicted on the rest of the force during the mandates.”
For Macie and CDR Green, the 231 service members and veterans who signed the Declaration of Military Accountability would have been a great place to begin drafting a presidential order.
The Gateway Pundit also reached out to Stephen Simmons, a defense manpower and policy expert who has often sounded the alarm on the disastrous effects the “vaccine” policy would have on military manpower readiness.
Simmons said, “President Trump’s promise to restore service members who were forced out of the military for refusal to take what has now been determined to be an unlawful order, is seen by many as critical first step to restoring trust in America’s military.”
As a former Marine Corps major who, after exhausting requests for religious and ethical accommodation, was forced to leave service under threat of court martial if he chose to remain in service during the COVID-19 debacle, he admitted, “this singular [executive] order will help restore trust to the approximately 95,000 service members who were forced to exit military service due to the unlawful mandates.”
“By this order,” Simmons argued, “the Trump administration has the chance to swell the ranks with experienced warfighters while signaling to veterans, families, and communities that the breach of trust is being repaired, [while also] mitigating the generational damage to recruitment that occurred.”
But regarding what an ideal executive order or DOD directive should look like, Simmons offered that “an ideal directive would first audit the DOD and determine how many service members were impacted.”
“Because of the purposeful obfuscation around numbers, we still do not know the full number of service members impacted, but the damage is far more extensive than the public realizes and goes well beyond just the 8,600 that have been acknowledged, with the DOD experiencing a loss of over 95,000 uniformed service members between 2021 and 2023 as reported by the Defense Manpower Data Center,” he said.
Following such an audit, Simmons suggested there will be three affected groups who will require support.
“These would include: 1) those who the DOD involuntarily separated via legal actions, 2) those who left service under threat or mal-treatment, and 3) the remnant of service members who stayed in but have since faced unmitigated career damage,” he pointed out.
According to Simmons and others, “There is existing precedence that would recognize these service members were wrongfully separated, each should receive backpay from date of separation to a proscribed date in the near future in which they would likely be given the option to either formally exit service or return to service.”
With this would come the restoration of trust in the nation’s military, he added.
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