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.

A flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly ...

Castro says more recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are sick with the flu as an outbreak spreads. The Air Force has said little about the outbreak, not even confirming the number ill.

Bryan Alsip, chief medical officer at University Health, saw a virus spread right in front of him during his time in the military. Now, he is seeing it all over again.

A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier ...

A basic trainee in the United States Air Force died Monday morning after collapsing during training, according to the Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland public affairs office. In a statement released ...

Since 1945, the U.S. military mandated flu vaccines—until Hegseth changed things earlier this year.

The number of flu cases at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas continues to rise in the wake of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ...

The US military is racing to vaccinate new recruits after a two-month halt on mandatory flu shots – but it’s a temporary reprieve, as the shots will soon expire and new doses ...