...I would bet that our troops would have NO say in this matter....! just as when I was in the military, every year we had to get our flu shot - whether we wanted one or not, whether we believed in the effectiveness of this shot or not, you got your shot, or else.....unless there was a very VERY good and substantiated reason why you could not get this flu shot, I believe an Article 15 awaited you if you refused it.
Terrible decision, our military could be incapacitated due to side effects. I know two first Gulf war vets who had to take the slew of vaccines.....they both have been suffering unexplained illness ( almost twenty years latter), the VA treats them best they can but both feel it was the battery of vaccines they were forced to take. The VA is silent as to the cause of their “ unknown” fatigue and misery.