A flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly 300 are said to have been infected.
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.
The Air Force has confirmed a trainee died as a result of a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, according ...
The US military is again requiring flu shots for recruits, just 2 months after it was declared optional as an outbreak at a training base spreads.