The COVID Jab, Military Reinstatement, and the Duty to Disobey

On May 29, 2026, guest host Yvonne Paez, a former Army officer, fills in for Kim Monson to examine medical freedom and the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Former Army Medical Service Corps captain Pam Long discusses the roadblocks to reinstating discharged service members and the new documentary Duty to Disobey. Canadian civil-rights attorney Bath-Sheba van den Berg shares the case of an Ottawa detective punished for questioning vaccine safety.

Military Reinstatement and the Duty to Disobey

Start listening at 03:02 – Hour 1

Pam Long, a West Point graduate and former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps, argues that the COVID-19 shots forced on service members were experimental and that no federal entity may mandate an emergency-use product. She points to Doe v. Rumsfeld, the 2003 ruling that barred the Pentagon from compelling the experimental anthrax vaccine, as evidence the COVID mandate was unlawful from the start.

Long, director of the Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter, says the public was told 8,000 members were discharged, while roughly 100,000 separated to avoid court-martial under the mandate. Despite President Trump’s January 2025 executive order authorizing reinstatement and back pay, she reports only about 150 members had returned as of May 2026. She describes a process so difficult that many veterans abandoned it, and notes that some were ordered back to the same commanders who discharged them.

Long also faults the military’s handling of religious accommodation requests, which she says were denied en masse during the mandate. She connects the fight to the Children’s Health Defense documentary Duty to Disobey, which screens nationwide on June 30 and argues that an apology cannot substitute for accountability when service members lost rank, pay, retirement, and in some cases their lives.

“Our military members do not forfeit their constitutional rights to defend the Constitution.”

Pam Long, Director, Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter

A Detective Silenced for Asking Questions

Start listening at 72:43 – Hour 2

Bath-Sheba van den Berg, an Alberta attorney and founder of Egronomy Law, represents Ottawa police detective Helen Grus, who was assigned to the unit that investigates sudden infant deaths. After colleagues reported a sharp rise in infant deaths in 2022, Grus examined whether the COVID-19 vaccine was connected, reviewing internal records for a pattern and raising her concerns with the chief of police. Within two weeks she was suspended, and a tribunal later found her guilty of misconduct.

Van den Berg argues the case fits the clinical definition of criminal negligence, citing Pfizer’s own unsealed clinical records showing that nearly all tracked pregnancies among trial participants ended in the death of the baby. She says pregnant and breastfeeding women were never part of the trials, yet were told the shots were safe. Doctors, pathologists, and coroners who raise questions, she contends, face discipline from provincial regulatory colleges.

Her client’s ordeal is the subject of the documentary Silencing Detective Grus, produced by Matador Films. Van den Berg will visit Northern Colorado in August to present the film through Yvonne Paez’s Perspectives101 program, part of a growing effort to connect Americans and Canadians who want vaccine-injury questions investigated rather than suppressed.

“All the babies died, bar one. That tells us that it wasn’t safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women.”

Bath-Sheba van den Berg, Founder, Egronomy Law