Pentagon to require all troops to get coronavirus vaccine by mid-September
| The Pentagon will require all military personnel to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15 or sooner, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, released Monday.
“I will seek the president’s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon” final approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “whichever comes first,” Austin wrote in the memo to troops. |
