This administration might be the exception, but it is actually normal for the US military to be getting more vaccines than average, even when their effectiveness is suspect (some past flu vaccines) or side effects are moderate to severe (e.g. anthrax vaccines).

Readiness - a matter of national security - tends to trump most concerns that, in civilian populations, might warrant greater choice and debate.

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lokar 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s common sense for any congregate housing arrangement

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0cf8612b2e1e 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is (was?) a mandatory list of vaccines all military had to receive upon enlisting.

	▲	jml78 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Back during the Iraq war, it even applied to civilians who deployed into the war zone. I had to get yellow fever and smallpox. I was just a software engineer that worked for the navy, but I had to do so I could go do my job over there.

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DaSHacka 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You'd think other aspects of health, like general fitness and mental well-being would be factored in too, but strangely, the only requirement they seemed to take a hard stance on previously was over-vaccination.

Almost like it was politically-motivated and it's not truthfully a "matter of national security"

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triceratops a day ago | parent [-]

If they could make every soldier super jacked, buff, zen masters with just an annual injection I guarantee you they would order that too.

	▲	hammock a day ago \| parent [-]
		And why not? Every vaccine currently on the market is safe and effective.