{"id":343261,"date":"2026-06-19T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:38:07","slug":"opinion-flu-outbreak-at-texas-air-force-base-shows-hegseths-recklessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343261\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Flu outbreak at Texas Air Force base shows Hegseth&#8217;s recklessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"G33JECBWZFG7LICG5QRICHQ7YQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">An influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/06\/18\/flu-sickens-some-160-troops-lackland-air-force-base-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sickened almost 160 people<\/a> in the past few weeks and might have even killed one person going through basic training. If it wasn\u2019t already clear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s decision to eliminate the military\u2019s universal flu vaccine mandate was an exceptionally bad idea, it should be now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has sickened almost 160 people in the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-343261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}