[fidelis]

They made us get the Swine Flu shot in Air Force boot camp at Lackland in early October of 1976. I got sick enough that I almost collapsed on the PT field and was in the infirmary for almost a week. I almost missed my last week of BMT because of it.

[vetvetdoug]

I was in the USAF at the time also. I was at my PDS and we were ordered to get the vaccine. I didn't think it prudent so I had a buddy in Medical Records forge my shot record stating I had the vaccination. I'm vaccinated to many diseases that are not a threat anymore including rabies and take the flu shot yearly, Shingles, and pneumococcus when necessary. In 1976 I just didn't think the Swine Flu Vaccine was a good decision.

In the USAF in January 1974 I was vaccinated with an experimental adenovirus vaccine that was used on 1000 recruits. They stopped because they found out the vaccine had a cancer gene within the vaccine. I learned of this six years later in an advanced virology class from a professor that was part of the vaccine testing group.