Data Breach Roughly 21,426 Marine Corps Forces Reserve

Major data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands
Marine Corps Times
Shawn Snow
February 28, 2018

The personal information of thousands of Marines, sailors and civilians, including bank account numbers, was compromised in a major data spillage emanating from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve.

A U.S. Marine assigned to the cyber security technician course, Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School, work on an assignment at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, California, March 15, 2017. (Lance Cpl. Jose Villalobosrocha/Marine Corps)

Roughly 21,426 people were impacted when an unencrypted email with an attachment containing personal confidential information was sent to the wrong email distribution list Monday morning.

The compromised attachment included highly sensitive data such as truncated social security numbers, bank electronic funds transfer and bank routing numbers, truncated credit card information, mailing address, residential address and emergency contact information, Maj. Andrew Aranda, spokesman for Marine Forces Reserve said in a command release.
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VA’s Center for Women Veterans to highlight, connect and inform

VA’s Center for Women Veterans to highlight, connect and inform women Veterans through outreach and social media
VAntage Point
Department of Veterans Affairs
Danielle Corazza
February 28 2018

The women Veteran population is growing and VA is stepping up to meet the need through innovative programming and services specifically designed to serve women. But, once the programs are deployed, how do we get the word out? How do we ensure that women Veterans self-identify and take advantage of the benefits they’ve earned and deserve? And, how do we capture the sentiment and reality of what women Veterans are experiencing so we can raise those voices to drive effective policy?

My name is Danielle Corazza, and after 15 years serving Veterans from outside the government, I’m thrilled to be the first national outreach coordinator for VA’s Center for Women Veterans. As part of my new role and responsibilities, I’ll be working to expand the center’s outreach efforts through in-person events and digital outreach, primarily in the area of social media. Which leads me to some exciting news.

In conjunction with the Women Veteran Athlete Initiative kickoff and Women’s History Month, we are excited to announce that the Center for Women Veterans is launching women-Veteran dedicated social media channels on March 1. We will use the @VAWomenVets moniker for both Facebook and Twitter – like or follow us to stay informed.

These new accounts will give us greater flexibility in how women Veterans communicate with us and how we disseminate important news, research, events and program information to women Veterans and community stakeholders. All the information from across VA and the Veteran community curated for women Veterans, by women Veterans and in an easily accessible social media streaming format.

We hope you’ll follow us, retweet us and generally get involved in sharing your experiences and thoughts as we develop this new information pipeline. Feel free to send feedback and thoughts as the month progresses – there’s a stellar amount of information of all sorts hitting the presses soon, so stay tuned.
Women's History Month
Center for Women Veterans Facebook

Stolen Valor--Massachusetts History Teacher Made Up His Own

Mass. teacher admits to lying about military service, Purple Heart awards
FOX 25 News Boston
Updated: Mar 1, 2018

"I made up time in the Army. Over the intervening years I added details as people asked. I am deeply sorrowful for this and did not see a way out," he wrote.

TAUNTON, Mass. – A Taunton teacher whose students thought he was a decorated war hero has been fired after it was discovered he was not telling the truth.

Boston 25 News has learned that when 36-year-old Andrew Gaboury was hired to teach at Coyle Cassidy High School in Taunton four years ago he claimed to be a veteran with two Purple Hearts.

It was a big deal at the school and he was featured in the student newspaper in an article headlined "Gaboury goes from military to history classroom."

"I'm so pleased to have a man like Mr. Gaboury to be on our staff. He had a lot of experiences and was well educated. He even served for our country's military," Principal Kathleen St. Laurent said in that article.
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Lebanon city councilman at-large, was found dead Thursday

Lebanon city councilman dies in apparent suicide, authorities say
Indy Star
Holly V Hays
March 1, 2018

Jeremy Lamar, Lebanon city councilman at-large, was found dead Thursday morning, Boone County officials confirm.

(Photo: Provided by the City of Lebanon)

Lamar's death is being investigated as a suicide, Boone County Sheriff's Deputy Ken Conley told IndyStar Thursday afternoon.

Authorities were called to a cemetery northeast of Lebanon around 11 a.m., where Lamar's body was found, Conley said. Investigators do not suspect foul play. A final ruling on cause and manner of death will be determined by the Boone County coroner's office.

The city confirmed Lamar's death, but did not elaborate on details, in a news release Thursday afternoon.
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More BS on privatization of the VA!

More BS on privatization of the VA!

Vets groups want a meeting with Trump to sort out VA choice impasse

"Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tennessee, called on both sides of the argument to recognize that private and community care, when properly integrated with the VA's health care system, was in the best interests of veterans caught up in wait lists for appointments, or who need specialized treatment unavailable at the local VA."

NO IT WAS NOT!

Oh, well, then he must not know about what our healthcare looks like. I have to deal with what the rest of the population has to go through, and while members of Congress keep telling us how lousy our healthcare is, they want to dump disabled veterans into this mess? Are they out of their minds?

Did he bother to check the history of all this?

This should not even be debated! Fix the VA since veterans were disabled while putting their lives on the line every time Congress sent them to fight wars and risk their lives across the world! Did they forget it was their job to fix it or did they care more about breaking it to sell off the care these veterans were promised?

How much BS are we going to put up with?

Maybe someone should send him this!