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Fort Bragg Soldier Tonya Long Smuggled $1 Million From Afghanistan, Got Plastic Surgery And 18-Wheeler

Fort Bragg Soldier Tonya Long Smuggled $1 Million From Afghanistan, Got Plastic Surgery And 18-Wheeler

By Paul Szoldra A former Army Staff Sgt. at Fort Bragg was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for smuggling over $1 million out of Afghanistan, according to a report from the Fayetteville Observer. Along with an unnamed co-conspirator serving in Afghanistan from January 2008 to April 2009, Sgt. Tonya ...

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New Hope For Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injuries

New Hope For Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injuries

When Josh Lewis returned from four deployments with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan in Feb. 2011, he was pushing 30 and ready to launch a civilian career. Lewis (pictured above) enrolled part-time at the University of Texas at Dallas to study global business. ...

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11 Things Not To Say To A Military Spouse

11 Things Not To Say To A Military Spouse

A military spouse who lives in a not-so-military town is bound to attract the curiosity and intrigue of neighbors. Military families usually love sharing details of their lives with interested civilians. But sometimes that curiosity and intrigue can take awkward, irritating or wildly offensive forms. AOL ...

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Employers On A Crusade To Hire Post-9/11 Veterans

Employers On A Crusade To Hire Post-9/11 Veterans

Sometimes in meetings at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ryan Enriquez is tempted to bark at his employees to "lock it up" when conference calls lose focus. And when he's managing projects in the mortgage division, he sometimes finds himself adopting the Marine Corps' 5-Paragraph Order to introduce order to the ...

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Veterans With PTSD Use Music Therapy To Heal -- And Get Back To Work

Veterans With PTSD Use Music Therapy To Heal -- And Get Back To Work

A decade ago, former Army Sgt. Leo Dunson was a good-natured 18-year-old eager to serve his country and make a difference after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Serving in Iraq, Dunson soon found it difficult to sleep, worried that he might wake up in an insurgent's makeshift torture chamber. And there were ...

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