If the pentagon didn’t mandate that all service members receive the COVID vaccine, would you have gotten it?

Nope

For example, there are the after effects of getting wounded.

We enlist knowing that could happen so yes, I would not have hestitated to get vaccinated.

Are we going to treat military vaccination programs like a buffet?

I'll take this one, but not that one.

Yes, I'll take that one too. No, not that one either. etc.

I am not ani-vax but am not vaccinated either. I had COVID in October but the Army does not recognize COVID recovered immunity, which from a health perspective I find startling. Nevertheless, I am not vaccinated with the current Vaccinations offered by the Army due to religious concerns surrounding these Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson vaccines. With those concerns still operative, no, I would not have been vaccinated even if the DoD had not mandated. If soldier health and mission effectiveness are the upper most concerns for the mandate, then natural COVID immunity should be recognized by the US as all countries in Europe currently do.

Absolutely not. It provides no benefit to young healthy people and the risks far outweigh the rewards.

The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to take the protection that didn't protect the protected.

Yes for me and my family it was like getting the flu shot. Reduces your chances of catching the Wu Flu, and reduces the severity of the symptoms. I do not think the mandate is necessary. For service members I don't think it should have been mandatory. Too many negative affects for young healthy folks as a technically experimental drug. With all the folks being separated is not good for readiness. There are probably a few looking to ETS early.

You do have a choice, you can take the vaccine or you can be discharged. Choices come with consequences either way.

I’m in the demographic targeted for the shots and booster. Over 70 and a laundry list of co morbidities. My daughter and two teen grandkids live with me who have chosen to not be vaxed. Twice catching and exposing me to direct contact with Covid. The shots and booster worked for me. I have not to date caught nor presented with any symptoms, so I support both the vaccines and individual choice .

Yes, I would have. Note, Before I retired from Law Enforcement ,I got both of my shots ASAP.

I for one don't understand all the fuss. At 5 years of age I was "mandated" to get vaccinated or I could not have enrolled in school. I don't even remember how many shots I received going into service, not to count the ones I took before being deployed. Plus, I get a flu shot every year and I have gotten one this year along with my vaccination and booster. And yet here I am still active and for the most part feeling great. But to each his own I guess, yet I don't remember in my time of service, anyone questioning basic orders like "REPORT TO SICK CALL!"