Originally Posted by rickair7777

Yup. The DoD is in a position where they have to choose between operational and admin pain and a manning shortfall in the near-term, or set a permanent precedent of accommodating individuality over Lawful General Orders.

Only one way that's going to go down.

DoD is lucky that we actually don't have any wars on right now (yes I know we always have SOF fingers in a few low-intensity pies, BTDT). They can push through a manning crisis right now.

The non-vaxxed members are lucky in that regard too... they can just get out with a likely honorable characterization. If we had a hot war or two going on then DoD REALLY could not afford to allow a precedent that opting out of the annual flu shot would get you out of a warzone.