A military veteran and an accomplice were charged with running an elaborate phone scam from inside a jail that targeted ailing veterans in healthcare facilities, including some who were in intensive care units. federal prosecutors said.
The pair allegedly targeted more than 60 victims from 30 medical facilities, some run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and attempted 130 fraudulent transactions on victim accounts, obtaining about $8,000 from the scheme, the Department of Justice said.
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Ukraine has shifted its long-range strikes to Russian ammunition depots and away from sites of critical national infrastructure.
The National Guard takes great pride in providing aid and assistance to their own communities in the wake of natural disasters. To that end, over 6,700 National Guard members from 16 states mobilized in response to Hurricane Helene. Guardsmen in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia mobilized in and around their home states. Additionally, Guardsmen from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Alabama, Indiana and Iowa provided assistance to the Southeast where Helene claimed over 200 lives.
Following an order made in July, this contract is set to supply the Lithuanian armed forces with an additional mobile air defence battery.
The Dutch government will create a joint Drone Action Plan with Ukraine; more than half of production will occur in the Netherlands.
Three of four companies in the US Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) programme have delivered their prototypes systems to the service.
Tommy Vu can do more burpees than you. That’s a fact. The major with the Oregon National Guard’s medical command proved it this past weekend when he set a new Guinness World Record for burpees in one hour, completing 1,027 of the notorious love-to-hate movements in that time period.
Why? Because he could. And for charity.
The workout, done in Salem, Oregon, saw the 36-year-old officer reclaim the top spot after falling to second place. Specifically, the record is for chest-to-ground burpees in one hour, by a male competitor.
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