By THOMAS GNAU | The Dayton Daily News | Published: January 14, 2021
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DAYTON, Ohio (Tribune News Service) — The COVID-19 vaccine is not mandatory, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base employees can volunteer to get the vaccine, but only in the "appropriate phasing," Col. Patrick, Miller, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and Wright-Patterson installation commander, said Wednesday.
And that phasing is following a Department of Defense plan: Health care and essential first-responders are to get the vaccine first, then people necessary to accomplish certain key missions, Airmen set to deploy, then "high-risk" beneficiaries before, finally, the healthy population, Miller said.