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The Air Force reinstated the flu vaccine mandate after more than 200 recruits got sick at a base, reversing Secretary Hegseth's earlier policy scrapping the requirement. The move contradicted his medical freedom stance.
The Air Force reinstated the flu vaccine mandate after more than 200 recruits got sick at a base. Defense Secretary Hegseth had scrapped the requirement as part of a medical freedom stance. The outbreak forced a reversal, and the mandate came back quietly without official fanfare.
This is a practical rebuke of ideology. Hegseth's position on medical freedom collided with 200 sick soldiers. The Air Force chose soldiers over the principle. It happened fast and without the media battle you'd expect, which suggests leadership wanted to avoid drawing attention to the reversal. It's a test case: when medical freedom policies meet real outbreaks, policy caves. That'll likely repeat.
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