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 ...

A flu outbreak among U.S. Air Force recruits at Lackland Air Force Base, part of Joint Base San Antonio in Texas, has grown to at least 222 confirmed cases, with four recruits hospitalized. The figure ...

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

The number of flu cases at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas continues to rise in the wake of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s banishment of the influenza vaccine mandate for service members. The Air ...

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 took less than two months for the DOD to go back to mandating flu vaccines for new recruits, but someone died all the same ...

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 ...