In this interview, I sat down with First Lieutenant John Bowes, an Air Force F16 fighter pilot in training, who is set to be discharged from the service for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Bowes comes from a family of Air Force pilots and spent his entire life preparing for the honor of serving his country as an aviator, only to be sidelined from training for his refusal to succumb to a vaccine mandate over Bowes’s deeply-held religious beliefs that prevent him taking the vaccine.
