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[Get Military.com News Relevant to You: Check Your Service Details Here]( [Military.com]( Military Report The Military's Largest Benefits Update February 26 [Vets Say Weight Loss Drugs Have Improved Their Health, But New Patients Are Out of Luck]( [7 Badass Women Who Made Military History]( [The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War]( [Marine Corps F-35 Takes Nosedive in Hangar While Being Used by Navy Top Gun School]( ['Combat Con Artists' of World War II Who Hoodwinked Nazis Get Long Overdue Top Honor from Congress]( [Marine Corps Becomes the First Military Branch to Pass a Financial Audit]( [Cyberattack Against Commercial Prescription Program Hamstrings Military Pharmacies Around the World]( [Sprouts Farmers Market: Ready for another unique employment experience?]( [New York Guardsmen Accused of Sexually Exploiting Asylum Seekers Housed in Hotel]( [29 Hard Truths About Getting Your First Civilian Job]( [Here’s the Only American Soldier to Defect to the Nazis in World War II]( [VA Paid Roughly $1 Million in Double Housing Payments to Some Student Vets Due to a Legal Loophole]( ['We'll Be Back For You': Jesse Brown and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir]( [Marines Field New Technology that Can Measure Bullet Trajectory, Simulated Wounds in California Exercise]( [Thursday’s FREE Master Class: How to Write the Federal Resume]( [Auto Insurance for Military and Veterans]( [Air Force Confirms Parts Failure Occurred in Deadly Japan Osprey Crash that Left 8 Airmen Dead]( [The US Military Already Has a Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes]( [3 Tips to Help You Push Past the Push-up Plateau]( [Calculate Your VA Loan Rate in Minutes]( [6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day]( [Two Crew Members Killed in National Guard Apache Helicopter Crash]( [Two Navy SEALs Drowned in the Arabian Sea. How the US Charged Foreign Crew With Smuggling Weapons]( [Vets Say Weight Loss Drugs Have Improved Their Health, But New Patients Are Out of Luck]( Wegovy patients at the VA say the medication has turned their health around and erased their once-constant "food noise." But the ongoing global shortage from manufacturer Novo Nordisk means that VA patients who want to start the medication cannot. [Read More]( [7 Badass Women Who Made Military History]( Women have blazed a trail of innovation and made military history. They have been fighting and sacrificing for this country much longer than you may think. [Read More]( [The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War]( The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union remained feverishly high. [Read More]( [Marine Corps F-35 Takes Nosedive in Hangar While Being Used by Navy Top Gun School]( An image of the jet, an F-35C Lightning II, was posted on social media earlier this month showing it face-planted onto the concrete in a hangar. [Read More]( ['Combat Con Artists' of World War II Who Hoodwinked Nazis Get Long Overdue Top Honor from Congress]( From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks, trucks and artillery pieces; bogus radio traffic; 500-pound loudspeakers blasting recordings of divisions on the move; and other means of fakery to confuse the Nazis. In the process, it may have saved the lives of 15,000 to 30,000 American troops, according to Army historians. [Read More]( [Marine Corps Becomes the First Military Branch to Pass a Financial Audit]( The Corps will hypothetically be able to better focus on modernizing its workforce following the clean audit. [Read More]( [Cyberattack Against Commercial Prescription Program Hamstrings Military Pharmacies Around the World]( Pharmacies at military bases worldwide have been facing disruptions because of a cyberattack that shut down the commercial prescription processing program the military health system uses, the Defense Health Agency said in a statement. [Read More]( [Sprouts Farmers Market: Ready for another unique employment experience?]( [Read More]( [New York Guardsmen Accused of Sexually Exploiting Asylum Seekers Housed in Hotel]( Seven migrants allege numerous incidents of sexual exploitation at a Quality Inn in Cheektowaga, outside of Buffalo. [Read More]( [29 Hard Truths About Getting Your First Civilian Job]( Hard truth is better than kind fiction when it comes to veteran jobs and spouse employment. Defense industry veterans and hiring managers share the hard truths they had to learn during their own job hunts before they found their first civilian job. [Read More]( [Here’s the Only American Soldier to Defect to the Nazis in World War II]( Lt. Martin James Monti was an Army Air Forces pilot, but he wasn't on a recon mission. He had stolen the plane and was headed for the Nazi-occupied city of Milan to defect to the German Army. [Read More]( [VA Paid Roughly $1 Million in Double Housing Payments to Some Student Vets Due to a Legal Loophole]( While "double-dipping" is not allowed for most military and veterans benefits programs, an issue with two Veterans Affairs education programs allowed 208 veterans to receive two housing stipends, the VA inspector general found. [Read More]( ['We'll Be Back For You': Jesse Brown and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir]( At a time when the United States was still divided by segregation, Navy pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner were a model of brothers in arms. [Read More]( [Marines Field New Technology that Can Measure Bullet Trajectory, Simulated Wounds in California Exercise]( In its largest annual war game, the Marine Corps outfitted thousands of Marines with new technology meant to measure just how deadly they can be -- an effort to shed decades-old equipment and usher the service into a new age of combat data collection. [Read More]( [Thursday’s FREE Master Class: How to Write the Federal Resume]( [Read More]( [Auto Insurance for Military and Veterans]( [Read More]( [Air Force Confirms Parts Failure Occurred in Deadly Japan Osprey Crash that Left 8 Airmen Dead]( The Air Force said Tuesday that investigators have determined a parts failure occurred during an Osprey crash in Japan in November that killed all eight airmen on board, but the root cause of the crash is still unknown. [Read More]( [The US Military Already Has a Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes]( During the Cold War, the Air Force used an F-15 and a specially designed missile to destroy a satellite in orbit. [Read More]( [3 Tips to Help You Push Past the Push-up Plateau]( The following is a workout adjustment I recommend when you have tried daily push-up regimens and are still stuck at 75 for months at a time. [Read More]( [Calculate Your VA Loan Rate in Minutes]( [Read More]( [6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day]( Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day. [Read More]( [Two Crew Members Killed in National Guard Apache Helicopter Crash]( [Read More]( [Two Navy SEALs Drowned in the Arabian Sea. How the US Charged Foreign Crew With Smuggling Weapons]( Prosecutors said they were smuggling missile components for the type of weapons used by Houthi rebel forces in recent weeks. 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