Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates

Unyielding tackles a recurring topic of national importance as a history lesson for future generations. Controversial illegal medical mandates impacted military populations for many decades, but it was not until the COVID-era that the American people witnessed similar overreach.

Colonel Tom ＂Buzz＂ Rempfer’s memoir retraces the anthrax vaccine history since it marked the first time the military was served with court rulings condemning premeditated illegal experimentation on our nation’s troops. The advent of COVID mandates, imposed on the population in 2021, gave the American people a taste of the mistreatment previously reserved for our nation’s warriors. Legal protections enacted by the Congress to guard against medical experimentation, meant to ensure safe, effective, and FDA-approved products, were instead adulterated to foist mandates on American society.

According to the FBI, the motive for the anthrax letter lab leaks in 2001 was to ＂rejuvenate＂ the ＂failing＂ anthrax vaccine. Similarly, the suspected Wuhan lab leak two decades later resulted in a push for COVID injections. The pattern of fear-based bioincidents resulting from reckless biodefense enterprises, and lessons not learned with illegal mandates, paralyzed government and military leaders while wreaking havoc on the trust and health of our troops and the American people.

Buzz’s decades-long analysis of the breakdowns stands as a unique treatise on the failures of leaders to learn lessons from these enduring clashes and to correct the damage. Future generations will sort out the aftermath, but in the meantime, Colonel Rempfer’s Unyielding effort attempts to ensure that the lessons are not lost.

Colonel Tom ＂Buzz＂ Rempfer, USAF retired, ended his military career instructing and evaluating MQ1 Predator and MQ9 Reaper missions. Past flying assignments included duty in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as an F16 flight lead, F117 instructor pilot, C130 aircraft commander, and A10 forward air controller, with a total flight time of over 5,500 hours. He earned a master’s degree through the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security and received the program’s Outstanding Thesis Award. He also served on the USAF Chief of Staff’s Cyberspace Task Force. Colonel Rempfer was a distinguished graduate from pilot training and the USAF Academy where he was an all-American boxer.

Colonel Rempfer served in a retired capacity on the Military Advisory Councils for Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2d) and the Truth for Health Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Tom’s civilian career as a commercial airline pilot included flying the B787, B777, B767, B757, B737 A300, DC10, MD80, and ATR42 aircraft, plus he volunteered with his airline pilot union to assist with aeromedical and disability matters. Buzz continues to crisscross the oceans, never veering from his course, telling his and Russ Dingle’s unyielding story to a captive audience of gracious pilots.