Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the Department of Defense will no longer mandate U.S. service members to receive the flu shot each year. In a video posted to X, ...

A flu outbreak sickened 159 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base weeks after Hegseth declared "no vaccines for troops" The post Hegseth Said “No Vaccines for Troops” then 160 US Troops got Sick with ...

Texas Air Force base hit with flu outbreak infecting nearly 160 troops after Hegseth lifts vaccine requirement: report - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon was canceling what he cal ...

The US Air Force has confirmed that a 25-year-old recruit who died during basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland ...

Three Democratic members of Congress are trying to restore mandatory annual influenza vaccinations for all U.S. military ...

Officials anticipated a problem soon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lifted the vaccine requirement in April. By Greg Jaffe Reporting from Washington On May 5, several weeks before a major flu ...

It would seem that the noble experiment of telling fresh-faced Army and Air Force recruits that they could simply not bother protecting themselves and each other from communicable disease has come to ...

The Pentagon is once again making flu shots mandatory for military recruits, just two months after Defense Secretary Pete ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Wednesday that boot camps for all the military services are once again requiring the flu vaccination for all recruits after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the ...