I'm really starting to buy into the powerplay aspect of this, especially after the one vaccine contract leaked, confirming Pharma's getting paid regardless of them being used. The only reasons I can think of outside of Ego or Ignorance, would be a wildly different US Contract (unlikely, Pharma basically held all the cards) or that they want to establish precedent here for *other* goals, whatever those might be. Getting precedent in place that they can make medical procedures mandatory could be super easily abused from multiple angles.
Honestly, the military push is the least concerning to me from a rights perspective. When you enlist, you're basically beholden to the gov anyway, and they're getting stuck with wild shit for deployment regardless. I know the Anthrax vaccines had a low end 30% adverse reaction rate, and some reports claimed up to 85% or so. I don't like the idea of the troops just being administered vaccines for irrelevant shit like the coof, but its hard to argue this is some greater risk than the usual shit they put them through. Its the rest of the Federal employees that are a line too far, much less anyone outside the gov.