Lt. Macie downloaded the data almost a year after the Pentagon said it fixed a data corruption issue with the DMED. In 2022, other military whistleblowers reported shocking spikes in disease rates after the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine. But the Pentagon responded that those figures were not correct because some diagnoses in the years 2016 to 2020 had not been counted, an issue stemming from "corrupt" data. After the Pentagon said the issue was corrected, Lt. Macie and others?"including First Lt. Mark Bashaw, a preventive medicine officer in the Army, Navy Lt. Billy Mosley, Army Surgeon Lt. Col. Theresa Long, and Army doctor Maj. Samuel Sigoloff?"noticed that there were still concerning signs of increases in diagnoses, such as myocarditis and pulmonary embolism. Since word spread that Lt. Macie was the only active-duty member at his command who didn't receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and was actively suing the secretary of defense, Lt. Macie said people began to come