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If you're curious why it's hitting the AF extra hard, for decades an evangelical cult has been targeting our military with a focus on the AF.
The recruit in boot camps and move to AF town so their daughters can marry and convert members, then raise their kids to join or do the same.
That leads to a higher percentage who would refuse the vaccine, endangering everyone.
It gets written about every couple years, but no one does anything and now Erica Kirk is in charge of the AF academy
Because the air-force tends to be more of an indoors group.. ;-) They don't call it the "Air-Conditioned Force" for nothing. ;-)
The good thing about vaccine denial-ism is that it tends to kill people stupid enough to fall for vaccine denial-ism...
And their children...
And any vulnerable bystanders who can't be vaccinated and depend on herd immunity.
I hate to say it, but yeah... I know this smells of eugenetics, but getting stupid out of the gene-pool is not necessarily a bad thing..
Watch the first 5 minutes of the movie "Idiocracy" for a great example of why...
The thing is, stupid isn't a gene thing. A set of intelligent parents can have moronic offspring and dumb ones can have intelligent kids. That's why so many people break through the indoctrination despite their parents best efforts.
I'd argue that allowing people to self-select for extinction isn't eugenics, particularly if all they have to do to avoid it is accept they don't know everything and listen to the advice of experts.
It is unfortunate that they take others with them.
“Stupid” definitely falls on the nurture side of “nature vs. nurture.” So, it’s not eugenics to want stupid people out of the gene pool. They will nurture stupidity into the next generation not pass on a gene. It is a failure of a society’s education system. The children of stupid people could be raised not-stupid.
100% Hegseth’s fault.