Eight years after a surgeon at Yokota Air Base left a laparotomy towel inside Angie Perry’s abdomen, the Air Force has offered to settle her medical malpractice claim for $50,000.
The VA was the first federal agency to mandate that its employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus. There are 420,000 employees at the agency, and most workers had until Oct. 8 to provide proof of vaccination to their local VA Occupational Health Office.
Mogadishu, Somalia, June 1993: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dean A. Mitt, a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, practices his steer-roping technique on a slow day in Mogadishu. The “horse” was made from a 50-gallon drum mounted on a wooden frame, and the skull comes from a local cow.
