Latest "pentagon vaccine mandate" stories

The National Guard has a new weapon in the fight for COVID vaccination

The National Guard is shipping doses of Novavax’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine out to units in hopes it will help shrink the number of unvaccinated Guardsmen who face expulsion.

By Rachel S. Cohen

14 months ago

Master Sgt. Jeffrey Delorey, a medic with the 157th Medical Group, gives Tech. Sgt. Ravi Madahar, a boom operator with the 157th Operations Group, a Moderna booster shot Dec. 22, 2021 at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire. (Staff Sgt. Victoria Nelson/Air National Guard)

Does the National Guard have to follow Pentagon orders? Sometimes.

The Pentagon says the National Guard has to abide by its policies, but the reality is more complicated.

By Meghann Myers

19 months ago

Judge rejects Oklahoma’s lawsuit over National Guard vaccine mandate

U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot denied Oklahoma’s request for a preliminary injunction, saying the claims by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General John O’Connor and 16 anonymous Oklahoma National Guard members were without merit.

21 months ago

GOP officials back lawsuit demanding more religious exemptions to military vaccine mandate

Forty-seven Republican lawmakers are asking federal courts to step in and override Pentagon decisions on vaccine exemptions.

By Leo Shane III

22 months ago

Oklahoma Guard’s vaccine defiance part of long history of disputes over Guard control

History suggests there could be a path to compromise...or to a federal mobilization.

By Davis Winkie

23 months ago

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