Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee stupidly told Fox News that military service members should not be required to take Covid 19 vaccines because they're not the same as other vaccines. I think. The first-term senator from Tennessee continues to embarrass her state with moronic statements that cater to QAnon and anti-vax wackos who hibernate in the GOP. On Friday, she told Trace Gallagher her views on vaccines by claiming Republicans must protect military members from vaccination requirements. (Vaccine requirements in the military go all the way back to George Washington's insistence that his troops have the small pox vaccine.