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struggle4progress

(127,213 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2026, 08:58 PM Jun 19

Air Force base grapples with major flu outbreak [View all]

MS NOW
Jun 19, 2026

A Texas Air Force base is grappling with a major flu outbreak just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped the military's flu vaccine requirement. MS NOW Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar has more

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Air Force base grapples with major flu outbreak [View all] struggle4progress Jun 19 OP

Flu outbreak climbs to 222 cases at Lackland Air Force Base struggle4progress Jun 19 #1

Lackland is exactly the Air Force Base you do NOT want an epidemic at! jmowreader Jun 19 #9

Make Hegseth hang with the fellas at that base for a week. louis-t Jun 19 #2

That base is monstrous. 200 people is nothing cpamomfromtexas Jun 19 #3

That must be a great consolation to the friends and family of the recruit who died struggle4progress Jun 19 #4

Indeed Manatee Jun 19 #5

Do you know what flu does among un-vaccinated individuals? LisaL Jun 19 #7

I understand that it Manatee Jun 19 #8

so this is a 'scamdemic' then? GenThePerservering Jun 20 #15

I do not Manatee Jun 20 #17

It's not even the flu season right now. LisaL Jun 19 #6

Readiness Hegseth style. Turbineguy Jun 19 #10

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Initech Jun 20 #11

MaddowBlog-Two months after Hegseth's regressive move, Air Force base faces major flu outbreak LetMyPeopleVote Jun 20 #12

My USAF Basic was there in 1965. MineralMan Jun 20 #13

For THIS ALONE he should step down. spanone Jun 20 #14

Lackland AFB is indeed HUGE!!! ProudMNDemocrat Jun 20 #16

MaddowBlog-As Air Force base faces flu outbreak, military eyes exceptions to Hegseth's vaccine policy LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #18