Navy Restores Flu Vaccine Requirement for Recruits, Deploying Sailors

Mandates ended in April. An outbreak arrived in June. The reversal is still spreading across the force one service at a time.The Navy is once again requiring flu shots for a wide range of sailors and civilian employees, quietly reversing course three months after the Pentagon made the vaccine optional across the force.New guidance released Friday in a Navy administrative message, or NAVADMIN, restores the requirement for recruits headed to boot camp, sailors in officer training pipelines, certain deploying sailors and reservists, health care workers and some civilian employees. It takes effect immediately, and covered personnel must be vaccinated by...