Our nation’s veterans are the population most at risk for developing mesothelioma. Because asbestos exposure was unavoidable for many, mesothelioma is still one of the most deadly diseases that affect veterans even today.

In a plot that seems more fitting in a movie thriller, the United States Marshals caught up to the fugitive after a cross-country chase, accused of siphoning millions of dollars in donations from a phony United States Navy Veterans charity.

At a news conference at the Kings Bay, Georgia U.S. Navy submarine base, Rear Admiral Barry Bruner announced that by the fall of 2011, women would be permitted to serve aboard U.S. navy submarines. The announcement came some 16 years after policy changes allowed women to begin serving on Navy surface vessels in 1994.