Vanity, in the form of online photos, prevented a Port St. Lucie, Fla., man from getting away with taking $245,286 in Veterans Administration disability benefits by claiming, among other things, combat experience and arm and leg weakness that prevented him from lifting weights since 2010.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III issued the approval Saturday in accordance with Directive-Type Memorandum 19-011. That policy allows service academy graduates to pursue employment in professional sports immediately following graduation.

Saigon, December 1965: A truck bomb that heavily damaged the Metropole Hotel, a bachelor enlisted men’s quarters for the U.S. military in downtown Saigon, left an eerie footnote in the sign of the Bombay tailor shop. Eight Vietnamese, one U.S. Marine and a soldier from New Zealand were killed in the early morning blast that also injured more than 175 people, including 72 Americans.

In the exhibit on display until Oct. 31, iconic characters from the Lewis Carroll classic, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” have been brought to literal if botanical life in the form of “mosaiculture” sculptures