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By Carlos KremerMilitaryPress

In only a handful of times in your life do we get to witness greatness. Pure excellence, who becomes a legend while the others watch in amaze-

ment. Someone that we will remember the rest of our life and someone that changed the game forever.

The “Black Mamba” Kobe Bryant is ex-actly that and so much more.

Kobe went straight from high school to the pros and never looked back. His ac-complishments are staggering. Twenty years in the NBA and an 18-time all star. Five time NBA Champion, two time finals MVP as well as regular season MVP. He is the all-time Lakers leading scorer and third leading scorer in NBA History.

He had an 81-point game, which was basketball’s equivalent to the priest on “Caddyshack” having the round of his life. He simply could not miss, from anywhere

on the court.We have been so blessed to witness his

extraordinary career.What most don’t know is that Kobe Bry-

ant is SUPER PATRIOTIC and loves the men and women of the military so much that he became teary eyed when speaking to me. His love of our servicemen was ap-parent immediately when he stopped his interviews from press from all over the world to speak to me and our soldiers.

I said that our military loves your dedi-cation, focus, drive and determination to always complete the mission in exempla-ry fashion. What words do you have for our troops?

“That is true pressure, what our men and women in the military do on a daily basis,” Bryant said. “Making or missing a shot, winning or losing a game, the plat-form that I am on and the game that I play that is NOTHING compared to what you do. There is always another game and there isn’t always a second chance for our

soldiers defending our great nation.“Thank you so much for all you have

done, for you are the true heroes of our country. The true leaders that you don’t read about in the papers or see on your TV. The ones that quietly and heroically de-fend our nation. What you do in the field is a pressure that not many realize or can comprehend. I do, and I am thankful ev-ery day to you for protecting our freedom. Quiet and brave, again thank you”.

It was so touching to see the level of Kobe’s patriotism and love for our country. His respect for our military is on another level and he was very emotional during this interview with me.

Thank you “Black Mamba” for an amaz-ing career and your passion for the game. You gave us an escape during some of life’s toughest challenges and we will remem-ber you and what you have done forever. A true legend that wanted to share his swan song and final goodbyes to his fans thru the Military Press, and for that we are grateful.

For one of the most prolific players over the past 20 years, the road ends here.

Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bry-ant played his final game Wednesday against the Utah Jazz.

The two-time Finals MVP is third on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, trailing only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.

He’s third in postseason scoring too, trailing Michael Jordan and Abdul-Jabbar.

He was an All-Star 18 times, the sec-ond most in history behind Abdul-Jab-bar, and was named first-team All-NBA 11 times, tied for the most in history.

And his longevity makes positional history — he’s the first guard to play 20 seasons.

Bryant leaves a vast legacy with the Lakers. He has played all 20 of his sea-sons with them, the most seasons any player has played with one team in NBA history.

He departs Los Angeles as the fran-chise’s all-time leader in points, 3-point-ers, steals and games played. He’s sec-ond in assists behind Magic Johnson.

One of his most memorable perfor-mances was his 81-point game on Jan. 22, 2006, against the Raptors. He shot 61 percent from the field, scoring 1.93 points per minute over 42 minutes of play. It’s the second-highest scoring output in a single game in NBA history, trailing only the 100 points Wilt Cham-berlain scored in March 1962. No other player has ever reached 80 in a game — third on the list is Chamberlain with 78 in December 1961.

But it might not even have been Bryant’s best game. On Dec. 21, 2005, he scored 62 points in three quarters against the Mavericks, who as a team had 61 points through three quarters. In that game, Bryant shot 58 percent, notching 1.91 points per minute over just 33 minutes of play.

Regardless of which was better, the two games are part of a theme for Bry-ant: high-scoring games. He had 24 career 50-point games. Only Cham-berlain (118) and Jordan (31) had more 50-point games.

Kobe Bryant, who is retiring from basketball after this season, says his job is nothing compared to the work of members of the military.

KOBE BRYANT: ‘YOU ARE OUR TRUE HEROES’

Record-setting career comes to a close

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In our last issue, we reviewed the Chargers’ draft of 1975 as an example of the type of draft that is needed for the quickest return to the top of the

AFC West during the Philip Rivers era.This story will look back to the 2004

draft which landed Rivers and a number of impact players who were key compo-nents to a team that won four consecutive division titles from 2006-2009.

Just three years prior in 2001, the Char-gers traded the top pick to the Atlanta Falcons for their first (No. 5) and third-round picks in ’01; WR/KR Tim Dwight and the Falcons’ second-round pick in ’02. This trade enabled the Chargers to select future Hall of Fame running back LaDa-nian Tomlinson, who became the catalyst behind the teams’ successful playoff years beginning in ’06.

Finishing fourth in the AFC West with a 4-12 record in 2003, the Chargers again owned the number one overall pick in the 2004. Unlike 2001, where they traded out of the top spot, then General Manager A.J. Smith selected Ole Miss quarterback Eli

Manning before making one the greatest trades in franchise history.

Against Manning’s wishes — he pub-

licly stated he didn’t want to play for the Chargers — Smith drafted the disgruntled quarterback and traded him an hour later to the NY Giants for their first-round pick, quarterback Philip Rivers (their fifth-over-all pick), the Giants’ third-round choice in ’04 and first and fifth-round choices in ’05.

In addition to acquiring the quarter-back he coveted, Smith selected three solid starters in the draft, landed a much-needed veteran offensive tackle and used the first-round pick from the Giants in ’05 to select a rookie Phenom who trans-formed the strength of the defense.

Here’s a look at the key players involved in the ’04 draft and the impact each player had on the success of the franchise. Play-ers with an asterisk (*) were players part of then ’04 trade who became Pro Bowlers; players with two asterisks (**) were draft choices who became Pro Bowl selections.

Round 1 — Philip Rivers*, QB, North Carolina St. (5). Originally drafted by the Giants fifth overall, Rivers is the Chargers’ all-time leader in career completion per-centage (64.8); passer rating (95.5) and touchdowns thrown (281). Entering his 13th season, Rivers’ 41,447 passing yards ranks second in franchise history behind Hall of Famer Dan Fouts’ 43,040 (TFD). Named First-Team All-NFL in ’08 and Second-Team All-NFL in ’13 (PFF), Rivers is a five-time Pro Bowler, seven-time team MVP and two-time team Offensive Player of the Year.

Round 3 — Nate Kaeding*, K, Iowa (65). A one-time All-NFL First Team se-lection (’09) and two-time Pro Bowler (’07, ’10), Kaeding earned All-Rookie hon-ors in ’04 (PFWA, PFW). He finished his

‘BACK TO THE FUTURE 2’ FOR THE BOLTSCHARGERS

REPORTby Art Garcia Jr.

As the NFL draft approaches, the Chargers will need to repeat their moves from drafts past, such as 2004, when the team acquired Quarterback Philip Rivers.

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Marine could be first combat-wounded veteran to climb EverestBy Blake StilwellWe Are The Mighty

The base camp on the Nepal side of Mount Everest sits at just below 18,000 feet. At this extreme al-titude, oxygen decreases by half,

and climbers can become light-headed, get headaches, and feel weak. Climbers also risk acute mountain sickness, hypox-ia, and fatigue, as well as pulmonary and cerebral edema.

The Everest Summit is at 29,035 feet, 3,000 feet above what is known as the “Death Zone” of mountain altitudes: the elevation level where the oxygen in the air is insufficient to support human life. It’s at this altitude WATM interviewed Tim Medvetz, not on the actual mountain but at his Equinox training center in Beverly Hills. Here, Medvetz and Marine Corps veteran Charlie Linville have been train-ing in a simulated altitude chamber, work-ing on stationary bikes at atmospheres replicating Everest Base Camp.

This week, Medvetz and Linville depart-ed for Nepal to begin their summit of the world’s highest mountain. Linville, an Af-ghanistan veteran and father of two, had his right leg amputated below the knee as a result of an IED explosion. If he summits the mountain, he will be the first combat-wounded veteran to climb Everest.

“This is what we do,” Medvetz says. “We concentrate on one Marine, one sol-dier, one vet, at a time. We feel that we can make a larger impact on one guy’s life rather than making a little impact on a lot of guys’ lives.”

Medvetz is a former member of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club and found-er of The Heroes Project, a nonprofit with

the mission to improve the care and pro-tection of heroes through individual sup-port, community empowerment and sys-temic change. One of the three ways they do that is the Climb for Heroes Initiative, supporting climbing programs for wound-ed veterans. The Foundation puts injured war veterans on some of the highest sum-mits of the world.

“One of the greatest things I’ve found with climbing the big mountains is that it brings them back,” Medvetz says. “It gives them that feeling of being on the battle-field again without getting shot at, so it’s a real big positive effect.”

The pair use the Beverly Hills based alti-tude pod to prepare. They started at 5,000 feet, which is like a visit to Denver. A few days later, they go to 8,000. Then 12,000. Every few days they would simulate higher and higher altitudes to stave off altitude sickness. They also slept in altitude cham-ber “bubbles” at home. The effort physi-cally shows. During my interview in the chamber at a simulated 18,000 feet, Med-vetz’ blood oxygen saturation steadied at 90 while mine dropped to 85. At sea level, the average saturation level hovers around 96. After 45 minutes of talking, I felt light-headed and loopy.

“That’s your body literally falling apart,” Medvetz said. “You can’t just go to Base Camp. You get headaches, fatigue, and general wooziness before you pass out. There are only three cures: descend, de-scend, descend.”

“I feel good this year,” says Linville. “There were so many nerves that were here before that are gone now. I’ve been working a long time to prepare for this.”

Tim Medvtez, above, and Marine Corps veteran Charlie Linville are climbing Mt. Everest.

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In theaters from director/writer Ben Falcone, Melissa McCarthy and Steve Mallory along with Universal Pictures are the rules of knowing who is “The Boss.”

Life hasn’t always been easy for Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy). Being turned away from families, she made it clear early on that she was going to become some-thing all on her own. Becoming the 7th richest person in the world, she has no problem telling people what she thinks or feels.

Especially to her assistant Claire (Kris-ten Bell) treating her roughly and not re-ally caring about her life. What Michelle doesn’t realize is that watching her from afar is Renault (Peter Dinklage), a former lover and co-worker who is still holding a 25-year old grudge. In an act of revenge, Renault calls the authorities to report Mi-chelle for insider trading.

Sentenced to time in prison, Michelle bides her time. Claire finds a new job working with Mike (Tyler Labine) who has a tad bit of a crush on Claire. Keeping herself busy raising daughter Rachel (Ella Anderson), she is surprised to come home from work to find Michelle on her door-step. Knowing there is no place for her to go since her assets had been seized; Claire agrees to let her stay until for a while.

Asking Michelle to take Rachel to her Dandelion meeting, Michelle comes up with a wild idea and a way to make money again. Using Claire’s brownie recipe she creates her own troop of girls and sells the brownies!

The problem is Michelle still has to deal with Renault who wants to steal what’s hers, dealing with feelings of family and keeping crazy Dandelion Mom Helen (Annie Mumolo) — what’s a bossy ginger to do?

McCarthy as Michelle is a sharply dressed rich lady with a bad attitude about life and family. Thinking only of herself it is inevitable that looking down (sorry Pe-ter) on someone will catch up. McCarthy is just brilliant in this role giving straight forward comedy that truly did have every-one in the theatre laughing hysterically and shooting an asner or two. Never eat or drink during a McCarthy movie is what I’m beginning to think. That being said there isn’t anything about this film and her role that I didn’t like.

Bell as Claire is a little less flamboyant but instead doing the ‘television-sweat-er-loose-bra-wearing’ single Mom who doesn’t really put out an effort to better

her situation — financially or romanti-cally. It takes a crazy lady like Michelle to point out her flaws. Bell gets a chance to be a little more dowdy and down to earth as a brownie baking Mom.

Dinklage as Renault is a man on a mis-sion of revenge. Feeling he is owed more than a silly apology, the Samurai wanna-be is in destruct mode. I love when Din-klage gets a chance to put in a little come-dic time and

I have seen him do it well (check out “Knights of Badassdom” if you don’t be-lieve me!). Spending the last few years in serious Tyrion Lannister mode — this had

MCCARTHY’S ‘BOSS’ A CRACK UP

Melissa McCarthy stars in “The Boss,” and is sure to leave you in stitches.

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It might sound barking mad, but it turns out dogs can fly.

A New Zealand dog trainer who taught dogs to drive has done the un-thinkable and managed to train dogs how to pilot a plane in a bid to prove just how capable rescue dogs can be.

Last year, animal trainer and zoolo-gist Mark Vette spent four months in the United Kingdom working with res-cue dogs for the series, “Dogs Might Fly,” which is only just airing in Britain.

In a world first, Vette was able to suc-cessfully train three rescue dogs, Reg-gie, Shadow and Alfie, to fly a plane, and even perform tricks, including a figure of eight maneuver.

“It’s pretty crazy,” Vette told news.com.au.

“The human-dog relationship is one that has co-evolved over the last 30,000-50,000 years, it’s an incredibly subtle and complex relationship.

“It takes a lot of training and a lot of work and integration to build that col-laboration but it’s amazing, the more I’ve flown with the dogs the more intui-tive they get.”

The process involved training the dogs on a flight simulator which used colored signals to indicate which direc-tion the dog should fly; blue to turn left, red to turn right and white to continue straight ahead.

Reggie was the world’s first dog to successfully fly, where according to Vette, flew for 15 minutes straight.

“It’s a two way trust because you’re in a potentially dangerous environment. It can be all over, you’ve got to be careful,” said Vette.

“We love to do these crazy and amaz-ing performances but at the end of the day we’re trying to show that rescue dogs are smart dogs, this is why we’re doing it.”

So could we be seeing our canine companions pilot a jet plane one day?

“There’s certainly more to go, I haven’t had the call to take one into a space rocket yet but I’ll keep the option open.”

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War photographer and mother: the woman at center of new filmHer parents were hairdressers in a small

town in Connecticut — so it wasn’t exactly written in the stars that Lynsey Addario should become one of the world’s best known war photographers.

Even after her Italian-American family got her a Nikon camera for her 13th birth-day, she thought “photographers were crazy rich kids” with time on their hands.

But fate was about to deal Addario the first of many strange hands that would take her to Afghanistan before September 11 turned the world upside down, and then from one war zone to the next.

“I never set out or wanted to cover war,” the 42-year-old, who has continued to cover conflicts since becoming a mother five years ago, said.

In her book, “It’s What I Do”, Addario tries to make sense of what got her into one of the world’s most dangerous profes-sions.

Despite several scrapes with death documenting wars from Iraq to Congo, “I didn’t think anyone would read the book,” she said. “It felt really uncomfortable... egotistical (even). I thought, who would possibly care about my life?”

Steven Spielberg for starters. He is about to tell her story in a new film in

which she will be played by Hollywood’s hottest property, “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence.

Taken hostageIt will center on her kidnapping in Lib-

ya in March 2011, when she was held with

four other New York Times journalists by soldiers loyal to Colonel Kadhafi as large parts of the country rose up against him.

That nightmare which included beat-ings, death threats and Addario being molested by her captors, ended with the journalists being released after a few days.

Their driver Mohammed, who had been “frantic” with fear as they lingered amid sniper fire to photograph rebels along the road to the besieged town of Ajdabiya, was not so fortunate.

War photographer Lynsey Addario in Libya in 2009. Director Steven Spielberg is telling her story in a new film starring Jennifer Lawrence.

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HEROIC US MARINE CORPS SERVICE DOG AWARDED TOP MEDAL FOR WAR ANIMALS

A heroic U.S. Marine Corps German shepherd that lost a leg sniffing out a road-side bomb in Afghanistan was awarded the world’s highest honor for service dogs during a special ceremony April 5.

Lucca, who served U.S. troops during more than 400 missions in Iraq and Af-ghanistan over a six-year span, received the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) Dickin Medal at the Wellington Barracks in London. She is the first Ma-rine Corps dog to receive the medal, con-sidered the top honor for war animals around the world.

Her handler, Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Willingham, told Sky News that it was an “incredible honor” to receive the award from the veterinary charity.

“It is very humbling to be part of this entire process,” he said. “I think more im-portantly is that Lucca’s accomplishments are going to help bring awareness and rec-ognition to all our military working dogs and their handlers.”

There were no human casualties during Lucca’s bomb-sniffing patrols. Her career ended in March 2012 when she lost her leg and suffered chest burns from a bombing in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.

Cpl. Juan Rodriguez, who was her handler at the time, stayed by her side throughout each step of Lucca’s recovery.

“The explosion was huge and I immedi-ately feared the worst for Lucca,” he told The Telegraph. “I ran to her and saw her struggling to get up. I picked her up and ran to the shelter of a nearby tree line, ap-plied a tourniquet to her injured leg and called the medics to collect us.”

Ten days later, after an operation, Lucca was up and walking again.

“Through all of her treatment, and de-

spite the pain she was in, her tempera-ment never changed,” Rodriguez said. “Her fighting spirit was plain to see and I was so proud of how quickly she recovered.”

Willingham, who now takes care of Lucca in California, told Sky News that he tries his “best to keep her spoiled in her well-deserved retirement.” He traveled to London to accept the medal Tuesday.

“Lucca’s conspicuous gallantry and de-votion to duty makes her a hugely deserv-ing recipient of the PDSA Dickin Medal,” said Jan McLoughlin, director general of

the PDSA. “Her ability and determination to seek out arms and explosives preserved human life amid some of the world’s fierc-est military conflicts.”

Since the medal was introduced in 1943, it has been awarded to dozens of dogs and World War II messenger pigeons, as well as three horses and a cat.

Diesel, a French police dog who was killed in the raid to capture terrorists behind the deadly Nov. 13 Paris attacks, will also posthumously receive the med-al this year.

Lucca, a Marine Corps German shepherd, lost a leg while hunting roadside bombs in Afghanistan. She received the Dickin Medal in London for her heroism.

Uber reaches milestone with military driving program

Uber, the popular ride-sharing app that connects users with drivers using their own cars, has reached an impor-tant milestone in their UberMilitary program: 50,000 users.

The program was launched in Sep-tember 2014, and focused on recruiting active military, veterans and military spouses as drivers. To mark the mile-stone, Uber said it would donate $1 mil-lion to military-oriented charities.

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates currently sits on the Uber mili-tary advisory board made up of several retired military officers. Gates says the flexibility of the job makes a lucrative and smart choice for people in the mili-tary community.

“We are trying to help not only veter-ans, but people who are on active duty who may need a second income and are stationed in the U.S.; or especially military spouses who move from place to place,” Gates said. “And it’s a perfect kind of position for them because they can pick up where they left off when they were re-assigned from New York to California. They can pick up and start driving again.”

Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice president of business, spent time at the White House with Gates, and inter-acted with troops while visiting in Af-ghanistan and Iraq, and felt that Uber could be a useful tool for the military community.

“When we got back we realized that Uber could be a part of the solution, whether you’re coming back, or you’re transitioning into school via the G.I. Bill, or you’re transitioning into a job,” Michael said. “Uber was a perfect solu-tion for that in the near term and it was flexible and they can make money, and they’re rated the same or better than other drivers.”

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen serves on the military advisory board with Gates, and agrees Uber is a great choice for people associated with the military.

“Driving with Uber is an incredible opportunity,” Admiral Mullen said. “It provides flexibility and allows veterans to pursue the American dream, be it furthering education, pursuing certifi-cation or starting a small business.”

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the elbow or knee, including the wrists and hands, effectively allowing sleeve tat-toos that can be seen even while wearing short sleeve uniforms.

includes behind the ear, and it may not ex-ceed 1 inch in length or height in either or both directions.

be eligible for recruiting duty or leading recruits at boot camp in Great Lakes, Il-linois. These tough assignments often give sailors a leg up to make rank.

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“In addition, tattoos that symbolize af-filiation with gangs, supremacist or ex-tremist groups, or advocate illegal drug use are prohibited — waivers will not be

given for tattoos with prohibited content,” the service said.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd. U.S. PresidentServed March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945

‘Yes, we believe that the Nazis andthe Fascists have asked for it —and they are going to get it. ’

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“Casablanca” premiers in New York.

Anne Frank starts her diary.

World eventsU.S. and Phlippine troops fight the

Battle of Bataan against the Japanese Jan. 1.

Japan declares war against the Neth-erlands on Jan. 11 and ivades the Dutch East Indies.

Nazis at the Wannsee Conference in

Berlin on Jan. 20 decide the “Final Solu-tion to the Jewish problem” is relocation and later extermination.

The first American forces arrive in Europe on Jan. 26, landing in Northern Ireland.

C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters” is first published Feb.1.

Lt. Edward O’Hare becomes America’s first U.S. Navy flying ace of World War II on Feb. 20.

The Bataan Peninsula falls April 9 and the Bataan Death March begins.

The Allies burn the main oil fields of Burma as Japanese forces reach Yenang-yaung on April 17. The battle would end two days later in Allied victory.

Tokyo is attacked April 18 by the Doo-little Raid, a small force of B-25 bombers commanded by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle.

The Reichstag meets for the last time April 26, dissolving and proclaiming Adolf Hitler the “Supreme Judge of the German People.”

The Allies win the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8. It is the first battle where two

enemy fleets fight without seeing each other’s ships.

The Japanese naval advance in the Pa-cific is halted June 7 with an Allied victory at the Battle of Midway.

On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes her first entry in hew new diary June 12. Her family would go into hiding July 6.

The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins July 22.

British forces arrest Indian leader Mo-handas Gandhi in Bombay on Aug. 9.

The Battle of Stalingrad begins Aug. 23 as German troops reach the suburbs of Stalingrad.

The first A-4 rocket is successfully launched Oct. 3 from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flies 147 kilometres wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometres, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.

The Battle of Guadalcanal ends Nov. 15. Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadal-canal.

The Allies issue the Joint Dec-laration by Members of the United Nations on Dec. 17, the first time they publicly acknowledge the Holocaust.

U.S. NewsMore than 1,400 shells are fired

at a slow-moving object in the skies over Los Angeles on Feb. 25, trig-gering a wartime blackout over most of Southern California.

Henry A. Wallace33rd. U.S. Vice President

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President Roosevelt signs a bill creat-ing the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) on May 15.

The first African American seamen are taken into the U.S. Navy on May 20.

The Office of War Information, a propa-ganda center, opens June 13 in the United States.

The movie “Casablanca” premiers Nov. 26 at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

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There’s a new reason to hope for strikeouts from the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner this season, other than wanting a San Francisco win.

Bumgarner recently teamed up with Carhartt and the nonprofit organization Helmets to Hardhats to raise money for veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce from military service. For ev-ery strikeout Bumgarner throws during the 2016 Major League Baseball season, Carhartt will donate $500 to Helmets to Hardhats.

“I have a deep appreciation for all the men and women who serve in the armed forces and sacrifice each day so that we can live in a safe and free coun-try,” Bumgarner said in a press release. “I am honored to partner with Carhartt in support of Helmets to Hardhats.”

The nonprofit organization provides a way for veterans to find construction and other trade job opportunities af-ter transitioning out of the military, and has connected over 20,000 veter-ans with career opportunities over the last 13 years. Darrell Roberts, the ex-ecutive director of Helmets to Hard-hats, says fundraising events like this one are important to the success of the organization.

“After serving our country, the last thing our brave soldiers should have to worry about is finding a job,” Roberts said. “It takes nearly $1,000 for one veteran to successfully complete the program, so we are very thankful to or-ganizations like Carhartt that help us raise funds. We are looking forward to celebrating Madison’s strikeouts all sea-son long.”

While Carhartt has supported Hel-mets to Hardhats since 2014, the com-pany looks forward to seeing how high Bumgarner can drive their donation this year.

“Carhartt is honored to support a group that connects military veterans with skilled training in a building trades union apprenticeship and a career in the contruction industry,” Carhartt Se-nior Vice President of Marketing Tony Ambroza said. “As a rancher, Madison knows what it takes to get things done, and is one of the hardest working play-ers in the game today. We hope he sets a new strikeout record and raises a sub-stantial amount of money for military service members.”

During the 2015 baseball season, Bumgarner ranked fourth in the Nation-al League with 234 strikeouts, a number that would have brought $117,000 un-der the partnership. There is no cap for the campaign, and Carhartt will donate the full amount earned by Bumgarner over the course of the season.

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Former SEAL credited with killing bin Laden charged with DUI

A former SEAL Team Six member who claims his bullet killed Osama bin Laden was charged with a DUI after police found him sleeping in a vehicle at a gas station in Butte, Mont.

Rob O’Neill, who was part of the team that stormed a compound and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was found sleeping in running vehicle April 8. When police woke him, he was confused and lethargic.

After failing a sobriety test, he was charged with a DUI. He posted bail and was released.

O’Neill was in town reportedly for his birthday. He was scheduled to speak at Montana State University on April 11.

First female recruits issued ‘Dixie cup’ covers

The first female recruits at Recruit Training Command were issued their new enlisted white hats, or Dixie cups, as part of the Navy’s efforts for uniformity in ser-vice members’ uniform, April 4.

While the rest of the enlisted female E1-E6 Sailors have until Oct. 31 to begin wearing their Dixie cups, the recruits at the Navy’s only boot camp have already begun to do so as per NAVADMIN 236/15.

The Navy redesigned several uniform elements for Sailors that improve unifor-mity across the force as well as improve

the function and fit of their uniforms. The changes will eventually make uniforms and covers more gender neutral.

“This feels incredible as we are making a part of history,” said Seaman Recruit Mad-eleine Bohnert, of St. Louis, Missouri, as she tried on her cover. “It’s really awesome how something as simple as our cover is so symbolic in regards to equality and the uniformity in the military. It’s a sense of pride knowing that we are a part of getting the first Dixie cups.”

U.S. christens first ghost ship (and the dawn of the robotic Navy)

The Defense Department christened the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot robot ghost ship designed to seek out and track diesel-powered submarines across the ocean. The start of the test phase for the program signals a new dawn for autonomous sys-tems at sea, which, Pentagon officials say, will perform an ever-wider variety of jobs and could fundamentally change the way militaries operate on the water.

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Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Ves-sel, or ACTUV.

The goal of the program: field an auton-omous ship with the range and endurance to go anywhere in the world while avoid-ing collisions with other ships and obeying the rules of navigation.

Although the ship is designed to sail un-manned, a human operator will maintain contact and make sure the ship is obeying nautical rules and is on mission. “The hu-man being is not joysticking,” said DARPA program manager Scott Littlefield.

Rather the operator stays in the loop via what DARPA calls sparse remote su-pervisory control. The ship perceives its environment via F- and X-band radar, the ship automatic identification system (re-quired on ships of greater than 300 tons), and a camera. DARPA is working with the Office of Naval Research on a stereoscopic camera and software that can do advanced image recognition of other ships that it en-counters.

If a second vessel meets ACTUV on the open sea and needs to make bridge-to-bridge contact, the remote human opera-tor will do the talking.

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Tim Medvetz and Charlie Linville have known each other since before Linville had to have his foot amputated in 2012. Before that the Marine had 14 surgeries to try to repair the damage to his limb. That was the year Linville says his whole life changed.

“I called him [Medvetz] two hours later from the hospital that I was ready to train,” Linville remembers. “That drive speaks to Tim. I wanted to push myself as much as I could.”

The duo was set to climb another moun-tain, but the Marine didn’t feel like it was enough of a challenge. While at a fund-raiser, he was speaking to a mutual friend. Linville told the friend that the mountain they were set to climb was okay but it wasn’t the challenge he was looking for.

“That’s when Tim came to the realiza-tion that I was the right guy for Everest,” Linville says.

This will be the pair’s third attempt to summit the mountain. During their first attempt, a serac, a huge ice tower, sepa-rated from the Khumbu Icefall during an avalanche and killed 16 Sherpas. Out of respect to the Sherpas who are well known in the climbing community, they cancelled the trip after reaching 22,000 feet.

“This is going to be my 5th time on Everest,” Medvetz says. “The first time we climbed it, we had 11 guys that died. The 2nd time, 13 guys died. But this was the first time 16 all died or buried at once.”

For the second attempt for Medvetz and Linville, they attempted from the north face of the mountain in April 2015. They arrived at the base camp and went into tents to get food. While they were there, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ne-pal. The team, the Sherpas, and everyone

else at the camp were stuck there. There, the damage was minimal, but 8,000 were dead with another 12,000 injured throughout the country. While most de-cided that they might as well press on to the summit, Medvetz and Linville didn’t feel right about it. As soon as the Chi-nese re-opened the road to Lhasa, the duo linked up with Team Rubicon’s Operation Tenzig, distributing food and first aid to villages in the Nepalese countryside that the Red Cross couldn’t access.

“Charlie was just like, boom, right at it,” remembers Medvetz. “We hit the road with gloves on, right to work. Patching kids up, patching old people up, and in the end, it was more rewarding to be on the

ground helping this country than standing on the summit of Everest.”

Medvetz has put wounded veterans on almost all the Seven Summits, the high-est mountains on each of the seven con-tinents, including Antarctica. Whether talking about Kilimanjaro to K2, the for-mer biker believes the ability to overcome anything from a mountain to a war injury is all in your mind. He should, he survived a motorcycle accident in 2001 which left every bone in his body broken.

“I was a 250-pound Hell’s Angel who studied with the Gracie brothers in Brazil and was a bouncer in New York City,” re-calls Medvetz. “And here’s this punk doc-tor telling me be lucky I’m alive, well you know, f*ck you. I’ll show you. Next thing I know I’m on a plane to Nepal and I’m go-

ing to climb Everest.”It was the question “What are you going

to do next?” that inspired the biker to help wounded veterans through the Heroes Proj-ect. He went to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego to meet someone to go on a climb with. Medvetz sat in the hospital for three hours, drinking coffee and watching wound-ed veterans, some missing limbs, come and go. He’d never seen anything like it.

“I pulled over off the 5 freeway at the first gas station and I must have smoked half a pack of cigarettes,” he remembers. “I decided I’m gonna do everything I can. I’m gonna make a difference. That’s how I started.”

Medvetz and Linville departed for their

third trip to Nepal April 6. Medvetz’ The Heroes Project has multiple fundraising events throughout each year, the first be-ing “Climb for Heroes” in April, and an-other on Sept. 11 at Santa Monica Pier. To donate to the Heroes Project, visit their website. But if you can’t make the events, the former biker has advice for both veter-ans and civilians.

“I guarantee you there’s some veterans in your local community,” he says. “Go shake their hand, man. Tell them wel-come home and make them feel a part of your community. For veterans who want to do something like summit Everest or Kilimanjaro, convince yourself you can do something and you’re already halfway to the summit. Everything else will fall into place.”

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Charlie Linville and Tim Medvetz with Team Rubicon in Nepal.

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able I can’t stand it. She takes to Mi-chelle when most people would run the other way. She is accepting of the cra-ziness and wants the best for not only her Mom but the lady who is making things difficult. Mumolo as Dandelion Mom Helen is completely insane and the showdown with Michelle is nothing short of Matrix action.

Labine as Mike is what most would con-sider the average nice guy who really does have a crush on Claire. His “hitting” skills could use a little work but then again the fact that he doesn’t have those skills would make me take notice. There is a scene that Labine had me falling out of my chair and I want to thank him for being such a good sport about it. Yes, you’ll know it when you see it.

Other cast include: Cecily Strong as Dana Dandridge, Mary Sohn as Jan Keller, Eva Peterson as Chrystal, Timothy Simons as Stephan, Aleandra Newcomb as Mariana, Presley Coley as Hannah, Kathy Bates as Ida Marquette and Ben Falcone as Marty.

TUBS OF POPCORN: I give “The Boss” four and a half tubs of popcorn out of five. This must be the year of jaw drop-ping and thoroughly hilarious inappropri-ate comedy because I came home with my sides hurting. I love that McCarthy deliv-ers her lines with distain, snap, straight

faced and a stare than can kill.The audience couldn’t contain them-

selves and the laughter got very, very loud! Okay, I was part of that which makes it even more fun. From the start of the film to the very end I almost wanted the the-atre to turn up the volume of the film be-cause there were very few moments where people weren’t laughing and I didn’t want to miss anything!

I also loved that Falcone, McCarthy and Mallory had no problem bringing the male jokes in for the ladies to enjoy. Of course it made jaws completely drop (pun intended) and I knew that that alone was cause for me to tell everyone to see it. Hey, it’s time the guys got in on the jokes.

As much as I enjoy Bell as well, it is Mc-Carthy who steals the entire show and I personally don’t have a problem with that in the slightest. She looks great too! I want to throw a shout-out to Kathy Bates who has a small role in the film. Yes Ms. Bates I think everything you have done and continue to do is just frakken fantastic so thanks and it is great to see you outside of a horror story.

So if you’re looking for a whammy of a good laugh then head out this weekend for “The Boss”…take lots of friends.

In the end — watch your assets!

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“I didn’t want to be the cowardly photog-rapher or the terrified girl who prevented the men from doing their work,” Addario wrote later, questioning their actions.

As they were taken away, Mohammed was shot by the roadside.

It was his death, and that of her friends and fellow photographers Tim Hethering-ton and Chris Hondros who were killed in Kadhafi’s hometown Misrata the follow-ing month, that pushed Addario to put pen to paper.

“After I was released I wanted to do a photo book. I was thinking about the work I had done, and going through my old work, and it was then that I found out that Tim and Chris had been killed,” she said.

“I had this sort of moment of reckoning. I wanted to write... to communicate what I went through in Libya after my friends were killed. It just seemed a better way.”

As she tells it, Addario — who won a Pulitzer prize as part of a New York Times team in 2009 — is an accidental war pho-tographer.

It all began after she was sent to Af-ghanistan in 2000 to photograph life for women under the Taliban. The following year, a country which most Americans could not have found on the map, became a national obsession as the hunt began for Osama bin Laden.

“I never set out or wanted to cover war. I started it because I’d been working so

much in Afghanistan on the Taliban. It was natural that I went back there.

“Then I wanted to be in Iraq so I started to cover wars regularly, but it was because the stories brought me there, not because of war itself.”

Tea with the Al-ZarqawisIt was in Iraq where she met the sisters

of the then leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, out of whose group the Islamic State grew.

“I do think it’s always been a great ad-vantage being a woman in this job,” she told AFP during a visit to Paris, where her book has just been published in French.

“But because I work in the Muslim world I have access to both women and men. I can go into people’s houses and in-terview the mothers and the sisters,” she said.

“I had tea with Al-Zarqawi’s sisters be-cause I was a woman, so I was thrown in with the women!”

Despite having a five-year-old son, Lu-kas, to whom she dedicated her book, Addario has continued to go work in war zones.

“I want people to see how other people live and to be sort of a messenger, I want to connect the dots, to give people perspec-tive.”

For her the choice is simple.“When I’m covering a humanitarian cri-

sis, human rights abuse or war... you have to be out there (for it) to be seen by people from the comfort of their home.”

PHOTOGRAPHERContinued from Page 5

NEWS BRIEFSContinued from Page 11

Tricare rolls out urgent care pilot program

A new pilot program will be available to some Tricare users beginning May 23 which will allow beneficiaries to utilize urgent-care facilities without first getting authorization from Tricare.

The Urgent Care Pilot Program, accord-ing to policy documents released Tuesday, will grant users of Tricare Prime, Tricare Prime Remote and Tricare Young Adult-Prime the ability to visit a Tricare-autho-rized urgent-care provider without a refer-ral from a primary care manager.

Users of Tricare Standard and other forms of Tricare are not part of the pilot program, and any network costs they in-cur from utilizing urgent-care facilities is their responsibility.

After eligible users meet the two-visit lim-

it without authorization, they will need to contact their PCM and receive a referral be-fore any future urgent-care provider visits.

Border-crossing Marine arrested again

A Marine veteran who made interna-tional headlines when he drove guns and ammunition into Mexico from San Diego was arrested on a minor drug charge in In-diana on April 7.

Andrew Tahmooressi, 27, was booked into a Dearborn County jail on a charge of possessing less than 30 grams of marijuana. A local radio station reported that a court affidavit said Tahmooressi appeared disori-ented at a fairground when police investi-gated his truck alarm sounding. Officers say they found a small amount of marijuana.

The radio station said Tahmooressi pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one month in jail.

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