Officials anticipated a problem soon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lifted the vaccine requirement in April.

A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier this month while an Air Force request to reinstate a mandatory flu shot ...

The outbreak comes weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said flu vaccination was no longer mandatory for service members. More than 150 are reported ill.

A flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly ...

The US military is again requiring flu shots for new recruits as an outbreak at an Air Force training base spreads.

A major flu outbreak has hit Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, less than two months after Pete Hegseth dropped the requirement for flu vaccines.

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 ...

Since 1945, the U.S. military mandated flu vaccines—until Hegseth changed things earlier this year.

Hundreds of recruits at military basic training facility in Texas has been diagnosed with influenza ...

The Pentagon is allowing the military services to implement exceptions to the Defense Department’s voluntary flu vaccine ...

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training trainees stand at attention in front of a military training instructor (MTI) during the Coin and Retreat Ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. (U.S ...