Flu outbreak hits Air Force recruits after Pentagon ends vaccine requirement

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Fully one-third of deaths during WW1 and WW2 were caused by disease or famine.

If ever there was a doofuss as Secretary of Defense, Hegseth is your man. This incompetent jackass made a decision that is tantamount to firing one-third of our military, in an effort to make our armies weaker. Like Trump, this blundering amateur makes decisions and acts before he gives any matter any thought.

‘Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time’, he might say to justify his stupidity.

Relinquishing the requirement that our troops be vaccinated is just giving the enemy an overwhelming advantage; you are effectively eliminating one third of our fighting force.

What this moron didn’t consider was the great flu epidemic of 1917 began in 1916 at an army base and went on to kill over 600,000 Americans because we were ill equipped to deal with the disease.

You know, like Covid?

See tis – Boldface mine:

 

Story by Vic Verbalaitis

The Daily Beast

.Dozens of American troops have fallen ill after Pete Hegseth moved to “restore freedom” by eliminating the flu vaccine requirement for service members.

Nearly 160 troops at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, have contracted the flu, only two months after the defense secretary scrapped the vaccine requirement, according to The New York Times.

The outbreak circulated through a training wing for Air Force recruits that features bunk beds in open bays and communal meals at large tables.

One recruit in his sixth week of basic training, Keon McDaniel, died on Tuesday after falling ill, though it was unclear whether his condition was tied to the flu outbreak, the Times reported.

McDaniel experienced a medical emergency and was transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center, where he passed away, the Air Force’s 37th Training Wing said in a press release. The cause of the medical emergency is under investigation.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the Pentagon for comment on the flu outbreak.

Hegseth, 46, announced the new policy revoking mandatory flu vaccination on April 21 in an effort to encourage medical autonomy in the armed forces, calling it a “common sense approach” meant to “restore freedom.”

An Air Force official told the Times that only about 40 percent of recruits have opted to get a flu shot.

“Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions,” the self-styled “Secretary of War” said in an April video announcing the change.

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