Author: Michael

American and Ecuadorian forces carried out “lethal kinetic strikes” against drug traffickers in Ecuador near the Colombian border, U.S. Southern Command announced on Friday.
The operation targeted a training camp used by the Comandos de la Frontera, Ecuador’s defense ministry said, and was located in the northeast of the country. It was the apparent first strike involving U.S. forces in South America since the attack on Venezuela in January and the first confirmed action by U.S. troops since its anti-cartel mission was announced.

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A Massachusetts man was arrested this week and accused of impersonating an Army veteran for more than three decades, receiving tens of thousands of dollars in VA medical care and committing crimes in the soldier’s name. 
James D. Sommers was arrested on Thursday, March 5 at a transitional housing space for veterans, where he had been living while pretending to be an Army veteran. He was charged with one count of making false statements, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, but the extent of his alleged actions span 32 years.

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Pete Barnum can’t talk much these days. Surgery for squamous cell carcinoma—the kind linked to toxic exposure, the kind the PACT Act was written for—has left his speech severely impaired. But even when the VA calls to discuss his claim, they ask to speak with him.
His wife Keri answers anyway. She has been answering for months: scheduling appointments, tracking medications, escalating denials, spending ten or more hours some weeks on hold.

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