Pentagon ditches COVID vaccine mandate for troops

The Pentagon is formally doing away with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for military members, according to a memo from

in August 2021 after the Pfizer vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration . Austin insisted the vaccine was necessary to protect the health of the force. He and other defense leaders argued that troops have for decades been required to get as many as 17 different vaccines. No other vaccine mandates were affected by the new law.

But Congress agreed to rescind the mandate, with opponents even conceding that it had perhaps already succeeded in getting the bulk of the force vaccinated. Roughly 99% of active-duty troops in the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps had gotten the vaccine, and 98% of the Army. The Guard and Reserve rates are lower but generally are more than 90%.

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