Mandatory vaccine? Pentagon declines to say as troop shot refusals continue

Members of the military continue to decline voluntary COVID-19 vaccinations, leaving large swaths of the force unprotected as deaths continue. But the Department of Defense would not say Friday whether it would require members of the military to be inoculated.

“It’s a hypothetical. I don’t want to get ahead of FDA certification of the vaccine,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told the Washington Examiner when asked if the COVID-19 vaccine would be made mandatory when and if it receives full Food and Drug Administration approval.