Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Terry Adirim
© Staff Sgt. Jackie Sanders/Office of the Secretary of Defense Public AffairsActing Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Terry Adirim provides a COVID-19 update to members of the press, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 20, 2021.
Former Pentagon official Terry Adirim says she was directed by the Secretary of Defense to justify the mandate.

Lawyers representing America's service members are beginning to produce victories defending the U.S. Armed Forces against forced compliance with biomedical gene therapy experiments, and suddenly, nobody in the Pentagon wants to take accountability for their legally dubious mRNA injection order.

It all began on August 24, 2021, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo mandating mRNA "vaccination" for the active military, but with the stipulation that this mandate only applied to fully licensed products. This was because, as The Dossier understands, it is illegal to force service members to take an EUA vaccine.

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The Sec Austin memo and the guidance that followed created an issue, because, as The Dossier readers are well aware of by now, the FDA licensed versions of the mRNA shots never actually made it to market, rendering the initial vaccine mandate useless.

This is where the infamous September 14, 2021 memo comes into play.
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Dr Terry Adirim, the woman who signed the memo, is a devoted democrat political activist and, as a medical doctor, advocates for "gender-affirming prescriptions" for "transgender" children. At the time, she was the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs (under a Biden political appointment). Adirim's memo attempted to justify mandating EUA shots as if they were FDA approved.
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Dr Adirim's deceptive memo described the EUA and FDA licensed vaccines as "interchangeable," adding that the Defense Department can "use doses distributed under the EUA to administer the vaccination series as if the doses were the licensed vaccine." Adirim failed to note that the EUA vaccines were only administratively interchangeable, but not *legally* interchangeable, as made clear by the FDA. This should have rendered any mandate unenforceable.

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In other documents and statements, she routinely made claims that FDA licensed vaccines were available to troops, when that was not in fact the case.


Following the mRNA injection order, untold thousands of service members were coerced — under threat of both administrative and criminal action — to take a "vaccine" that they wanted no part of. Unsurprisingly, this mandatory novel gene therapy injection has harmed combat readiness and produced widespread, serious, long term injuries throughout the armed forces.


The Pentagon's unlawful order is being challenged in court by lawyers representing all branches of the military. On Thursday, the Marine Corps became the latest service branch granted a class wide injunction against the mandate.

Since leaving the Pentagon, Adirim has sought to distance herself from the letter, claiming that "crazy" attempts to hold her accountable are misguided, because it was "The Secretary" (Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin) who "directed vaccinations." Neither Austin nor the Pentagon has confirmed that the Secretary of Defense ordered Adirim to sign off on the unlawful mandate.
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Adirim remains in government as the program executive director of the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office. As a government official, both she and the Secretary of Defense are easily accessible to testify via a congressional subpoena, should congress want to investigate their controversial memos. As Adirim's memo has come under scrutiny, she has decided to lock her social media accounts.

Who, if anyone, will be held accountable?
Jordan Schachtel is an investigative journalist.