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this is around the services . Yeah .

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Hello and welcome . I'm Staff Sergeant

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josh Hauser . Memorial Day is the

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unofficial start of summer for many of

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us and we often hear about the need to

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take precautions in order to stay safe

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when we're out with family and friends .

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But the Better Business Bureau says

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there's another precaution . You should

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take . One that could prevent you from

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losing your money and valuable

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information for millions of americans .

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Memorial Day is a time to remember the

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men and women who have made the

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ultimate sacrifice for their country .

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But for some it's an opportunity to

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scam people out of their money . There

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are some fantastic charities out there

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as you know , but unfortunately there

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are people who do take advantage again

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of patriotism . Veterans the military

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as a whole . Earlier this month , a man

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known to authorities as Bobby Thompson

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was arrested on charges of stealing

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millions of dollars that had been

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donated to veterans . The organization

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he founded , the US Navy Veterans

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Association received nearly $100

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million . It's believed little if any

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of that money benefited any veterans .

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This was a despicable scheme

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to solicit money under the

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guise of helping Navy Veterans

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Brenda . Livingston , director of the

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Better Business Bureaus Military Line

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says , do your homework on whoever

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you're giving your money to what I

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always recommend through our program is

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going to our website to the Better

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Business Bureau's website and looking

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up the charity that you're interested

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in donating to . So we we have

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reports that break out

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that how much goes to the target

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audience , how much is used for

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administrative fees , but it's not just

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charities , which can turn service

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members and veterans into a victim .

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Miss Livingston says , phishing scams

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are also common , particularly when it

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comes to getting additional benefits if

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you have not initiated something , if

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you have not contacted the Veterans

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Administration to look into your

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benefits and somebody's coming to you

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to say , hey I can , I can do this for

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you , I do this for a lot of people ,

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you know , a lot of them , uh they use

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those kinds of tactics , then that's a

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red flag . So while Memorial Day brings

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out patriotic pride , don't forget , it

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can also bring out scam artists looking

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to make you a mark . You have to step

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back and step out of that emotion and

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think about what you're doing because

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it's really a separation of your money

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From you going to someone else . This

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week more than 200 women reported to

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the maneuver battalions and some of the

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Army's Brigade combat teams . But army

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chief of staff , General Ray Odierno

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says that may be only the beginning .

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Female soldiers make up about 16% of

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the army up until now the assignments

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available to them have been more

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restricted than to their male

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counterparts . But General Odierno says

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initiatives are being launched to

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leverage what he calls tremendous

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talent in our ranks . Earlier this week ,

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more than 200 women began reporting to

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the maneuver battalions in nine of our

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brigade combat teams selected to

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participate in the exception to the

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direct ground combat assignment rule .

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Additionally , co location as an

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assignment restriction is rescinded .

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This revision will result in the

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opening of six military occupational

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specialties and 80 units . More than

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13,000 positions to women in February .

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A Defense Department report to Congress

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outlining the assignment . Policy

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changes included a vision statement

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that said the department is committed

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to removing all barriers that would

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prevent service members from rising to

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the highest level of responsibility

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that their talents and capabilities

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warrant . General Odierno says women

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will likely filter into the new

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positions for several months and then

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likely move forward with a more

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permanent solution . Sometime this fall ,

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the question at that point , General

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Odierno says , is what other

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opportunities should be made available

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to women . The next step is we have to

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continue to attempt to look at how do

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we open up infantry and armor mLSs to

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uh females . And that's the next step .

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So what we've done is uh , we're really

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now in Collecting information and we're

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setting a course for word on how we

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might take a look at this . And what

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about the possibility of women being

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able to take ranger training , 90% of

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our senior embassy officers are ranger

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qualified . So if we determine that

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we're gonna allow women to go in the

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infantry and be successful , they are

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probably at some time going to have to

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go through ranger school . We have not

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made that decision yet , but it's a

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factor that I've asked them to take a

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look at airman at Misawa Air Base in

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Japan paid tribute to our following

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brothers in arms during a memorial day

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retreat ceremony thursday the entire

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base community took part in the event ,

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staying true to the true meaning of the

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memorial Day holiday and remembering

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those who have given the ultimate

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sacrifice in service to our nation . We

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get one day of the year to recognize

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our fallen soldiers , sailing sailors ,

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airmen and marines and this is that one

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day that we get to do it officially do

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it . I'm obviously we should be , we

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should remember our fallen daily but

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this is the time we can come together

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to build an official ceremony on

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memorial Day . The flag is raised

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briskly to the top of the staff then

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lowered to half mast until noon when it

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is raised back to full staff for the

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rest of the day and I'm staff sergeant

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josh Hauser for everyone here at the

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pentagon channel . Thanks for watching

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As we wrap up this memorial day , we

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leave you with video of flags at

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Arlington cemetery . U . S . Army

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soldiers placed more than 220,000 small

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replicas during a tradition known as

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flags in which dates back to 1948 when

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the old guard began the memorial day

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tribute . Mhm .

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Mhm