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“Wildboy,” “Fatty,” “Jizzle” and several other scammers with colorful noms de guerre are in hot water with the feds after allegedly duping hundreds of Navy Federal Credit Union customers out of up to $2 million.
In an indictment filed last month, federal prosecutors said they broke up a 10-person scam ring targeting members of the military community in Virginia near Naval Station Norfolk, the largest navy complex in the world.
The indictment accused Rodney Thornton, Steven Jones III, Jamaica Sumner, Troy Davis III, Laterrance Parker Jr.

AUSTIN — After 38 years of service in the U.S. Army, and the last three as commanding general of Army Futures Command, Gen. James Rainey will retire next week as AFC merges with Training and Doctrine Command on Oct. 1.

Well, the follicle fun is about to end. It turns out that having facial hair hurts “lethality,” so the Secretary of War/Defense decided to give service members an ultimatum: Find a way to shave every day within a year or be separated from service.
Of course, this probably won’t apply to the most lethal of us, the special operators, who grow beards so they can blend in with their surroundings. Of course, a muscular white guy that is armed to the teeth while suited and booted won’t blend in in a place like Afghanistan. But give him a beard and the locals won’t know the difference.

The Nato Air Policing contingent walked Airforce Technology through the interception of Russian jets and their assets on the ground.

Elbit Systems UK (ESUK) said that its next-generation IIDFS platform has achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC).

GDIT, a division of General Dynamics, has secured a $1.5bn contract to modernise the enterprise IT infrastructure of STRATCOM.

Dmitry Filipoff, CIMSEC
For the U.S.

Michael Marrow, Breaking Defense
Air Force Program Executive Officer for ICBMs Brig. Gen.

John A.

T&P
The MV Ocean Trader, a floating barracks, helicopter base and command center for special ops forces, is currently operating in the Caribbean.