In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 11th, 2017 was:
MELISSA BARNES WALKER
Boaz, AL
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
6/5/17
Deborah Farris
Tonya Velazquez
Michelle Hughes
Bethany Henry
Glenna Zanaglio
Jennifer Leffler
Carol Scheive
Lisa Puckett
Michelle R. Carlino
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Christy Hawkes
Jennifer Vega
Wendi Black
Carole Jacobs
Jennifer Mapes
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Anggie Marie
June Rivera
Mary Mcmenamy
John McKnight
Dawna McKnight
6/6/17
Deborah Farris
Juanita Williams-Jones
Melissa Barnes Walker
Paula Rousseau
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Jenny Merritt
Karen Bondehagen
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Laurie Griffith
Amanda Peters
Lori Marie Timms
June Rivera
Nai Merri
Zack Sudler
Krissy Brislin
Mya Murphy
Melissa White
JoBeth Butcher
Poonam Gosain
Tina Mimick
Rebecca Fauteux
Kristen Raia Bowman
D Shanel Collins
6/7/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Rebecca Fauteux
Eleazar Ruiz
Nai Merri
Susanne Killion
Andrea Timms
Summer July
Cheryl Hall
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kristina Rosson
Melina Pereyra
April Ashcraft
Priscilla Shimp
Tonya Velazquez
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Beata Tybor
Mary Mcmenamy
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Angela N Dustin Turner
Elisa Adams
Phyllis Hines
6/8/17
Valerie Kuehn
Tonya Velazquez
Holly Cajigas
Trish Hysell
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Anggie Marie
Jennifer Leffler
Melissa Barnes Walker
Preeti Chand
Jane Peterson
Deborah Farris
Isis Sample
Kelly Jo Francisco
Daniela Hernandez
Vickie Gipson
Nelle Bailey
Jennifer Mason
Tina Marie
Taschia Miller
Jennifer Mapes
Wayne Gallas
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jodi Stevens
6/9/17
Tonya Velazquez
Sandra Sue Blanton
Jennifer Ramlet
Carol Scheive
Phyllis Hines
Melissa White
Amanda Peters
David M Still
Mary Achio
Sarra Baptist
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Misty Shallcross
Tracy Shafer
Brittany Marie Thompson
Rhonda Nicholson
Diane Hamric
Elizabeth E. Suquilanda
Brandy Williams
Janice Cash
Crystal Young
Kayla Clemons
Tina Marie
Michelle Hughes
Deborah Farris
Rebecca Fauteux
6/10/17
Sheila Carvell
Mary Ann Cody
Cheryl Hall
Ashley Agner
Anggie Marie
Tammy Alcorta
Melinda Dreier
Jodi Stevens
Jackie Hicks
Poonam Gosain
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Amanda Saltsman
Christina Domingue
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Amanda Rosario
Holly Cajigas
Emily Rice Bowersock
D Shanel Collins
Trish Marks
Carol Yemola
Christine Beckman
6/11/17
Dawn Raasch
Priscilla Shimp
Preeti Chand
Christine McKinnon
Mike Adamski
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Jennifer Downing
Anna Nichols
Kimberly Snyder
Christina Montes
Heather Marie Stacy
Jodi Stevens
Tabitha Sinks
Shona Johnson
Pam Johnson Rowland
Alexandria Fields
Kaitlyn Rutherford
Eleazar Ruiz
Diane Hamric
Brian Fulop
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In Montana, tech millionaire Greg Gianforte won a special election for the state’s sole congressional seat just one day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter. Gianforte body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs to the floor and repeatedly punched him, after Jacobs tried to ask about the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the House health care bill.
More than $6 million was spent by outside groups in Montana’s special election with 90% of the money favoring Gianforte. He won just over 50 percent of the vote, defeating Democratic challenger Rob Quist, who received 44 percent. Gianforte addressed the incident during his victory speech “Last night, I made a mistake, and I took an action that I can’t take back. And I’m not proud of what happened. I should not have responded in the way that I did. And for that, I’m sorry.”
Immediately after the violent altercation, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs, quickly relayed the incident on social media. “Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses,” Jacobs tweeted. Jacobs went to a local hospital for an X-ray on his elbow and Gianforte left the event.
Jacobs’ account of the incident was corroborated by Fox News Alicia Acuna, who was in the room to interview Gianforte at the time of the violent attack. Acuna stated that after Jacobs asked Gianforte a question, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck and slammed him to the ground before punching him repeatedly. “To be clear, at no point did any of us who witnessed this assault see Jacobs show any form of physical aggression toward Gianforte, who left the area after giving statements to local sheriff’s deputies,” Acuna wrote in her account of the attack.
The sheriff’s office released a statement saying it was investigating allegations of assault involving Greg Gianforte but held press conference hours later as news of the assault spread. Gianforte spokesperson Shane Scanlon released a statement that conflicted with witness accounts “Tonight, as Greg was giving a separate interview in a private office,” Scanlon said in the statement, “the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face, and began asking badgering questions. Jacobs was asked to leave. After asking Jacobs to lower the recorder, Jacobs declined. Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground. It’s unfortunate that aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”
In audio released of the incident, Jacobs asks Gianforte a question about the latest CBO scoring of the Affordable Health Care Act. “I’m sick and tired of you guys,” Gianforte said. A struggle can be heard on the recording as Gianforte continues “ The last guy who came here did the same thing. Get the hell out of here. Get the hell out of here. The last guy did the same thing. Are you with the Guardian?” “Yes! You just broke my glasses, you just body slammed me and broke my glasses,” Jacobs can be heard saying as Gianforte repeatedly yells at him to “Get the hell out of here.”
Earlier on the day of the assault, Jacobs had published a story in the Guardian about financial ties between Gianforte and Russian companies under U.S. sanctions. There is no word on whether his report in the Guardian was a motive in the assault.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 4th, 2017 was:
CHRISTINA MONTES
San Antonio, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
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Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/29/17
Paula Rousseau
Diane Hamric
Amy Conyers
Althea Thomas
Tracy Shafer
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kayla Clemons
Amy Stonger
Alicia Smith
StefJohn McClain-Sampson
Shannon R Garrett
Jessica Miller
Sheila Carvell
Dena Baji
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Anna Nichols
Amanda Kyrie’ Ayala
Trish Musgrave
Tera Wardrip
Michelle Hughes
Kelly Jo Francisco
Megan Hackworth
Luis Vazquez
Jade Good
5/30/17
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Mary Mcmenamy
Jennifer Ramlet
Juanita Willaims-Jones
Kelly Jo Francisco
Glenna Zanaglio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Krissy Brislin
Deborah Farris
Cheryl Hall
Tonya Velazquez
Lauren Bradley
Nai Merri
Geri Rus
Luis Vazquez
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Darbie Brown
Michelle Webb
Kayla Hernandez
Lauren Bradley
Leslie Wagner Hobson
5/31/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Deborah Farris
Kimberly Snyder
Jennifer Ramlet
Michelle Hughes
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Darbie Brown
Emilie Edwards
Mary Achio
Heather Marie Stacy
Cassandra Berholtz
Anna Nichols
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
LaKishia Wagers
Charlotte Dennis
Myranda Medlin
Brittany Marie Thompson
Mikey Mellor
Tonya Velazquez
Cassandra L. Penley
6/1/17
Jessica Miller
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Ramlet
Jacqlyn Gummert
Taschia Miller
Brittany Michelle
Jade Good
Kelly Jo Francisco
Nelle Bailey
Brittany Marie Thompson
Amanda Peters
Tera Wardrip
Misty Shallcross
Jonnalyn Gates
Michelle R. Carlino
Anggie Marie
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Shannon R Garrett
Brandy Williams
Traci Anderson
6/2/17
Daniela Hernandez
Valerie Kuehn
Christy Hawkes
Brittany Michelle
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Jennifer Mason
Mary Achio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Abby Cox
Deborah Farris
Nai Merri
Jennifer Lang
Emilie Edwards
Andrea Timms
Mya Murphy
Misty Dawn Moores
Sean Stover
Fitch Donna
Joanie Waterman
Bronnie Harrison
Stephanie Caldwell
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Sara Biason
Melinda Dreier
6/3/17
Deborah Farris
Juanita Williams-Jones
Jennifer Mapes
Kimberly Snyder
Shannon R Garrett
Priscilla Shimp
Nitasha Shank
Jackie Poole
Joleen Renee
Danii Muniz McGlothin
Lauren Bradley
Christina Montes
Nelle Bailey
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Susanne Killion
Laurie Griffith
Belinda Haas
Christine McKinnon
Dawn Raasch
6/4/17
Heather Marie Stacy
Brittany Whitley
Anna Nichols
Kathleen Hickman
Deborah Farris
Tonya Velazquez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Mary Achio
Alisa Jones
Shannon R Garrett
Kayla Hernandez
Jodi Stevens
Phyllis Hines
Nelle Bailey
Valerie Kuehn
Lotorya Patrick
Eleazar Ruiz
Karyn Koehler
Carol Yemola
Dawn Miller Majors
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In 2016, there were 287 insurers who offered insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and in 2017 that number dropped to 218. There were 34 states that saw the number of insurers decline, 15 states have the same amount of insurers from 2016 to 2017 and only one state added an insurer in 2017.
Five states, ALABAMA, ALASKA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, and WYOMING, have only one insurer operating on the exchanges, leaving consumers with little choice. 
In one-third of counties in the United States, about one in five enrollees, or 21 percent, have access to only one insurer operating on the exchanges. This is a significant increase from the 2 percent of enrollees in 7 percent of counties that had access to only one insurer last year.
“In 2017, insurance company losses led to a number of high profile exits from the market,” the study explains. “In 2017, 58% of enrollees (living in about 30% of counties) had a choice of three or more insurers, compared to 85% of enrollees (living in about 63% of counties) in 2016.”
As larger commercial insurers such as Aetna and United Healthcare have dropped out of Obamacare, many areas will only have regional insurers to choose from, said Ed Haislmaier, an expert in health care policy at the Heritage Foundation.
“The reality is that the individual market even pre-Obamacare was a very small part of their business,” said Haislmaier. “So those companies have basically dropped out and what that leaves are a couple of companies with broader footprints but not more than about 10 or 12 states.”
“What you’re down to is basically in most cases your dominant Blue Cross plan and then depending on the size and location you may have regional players and by regional it could mean either across two or more states or just within a state,” he said. 
Haislmaier and the Heritage Foundation, who originally created the methodology for this type of study earlier this year, said that the ‘Affordable’ Care Act has left consumers with less competition and choice than ever before.
“One of the stated aims of the ‘Affordable’ Care Act was to increase competition among health insurance companies,” said Haislmaier.
“That goal has not been realized, and by several different measures the ACA’s exchanges offer less competition and choice in 2017 than ever before. Now in the fourth year of operation, the exchanges continue to be far less competitive than the individual health insurance market was before the ACA’s implementation.”
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said that Congress needs to repeal and reform Obamacare without delay. 
“The Obamacare death spiral is continuing,” she said. “As rates rise, healthy people drop out and the share of sick people rise, causing further increases in rates. Since these rates are capped then the insurance business becomes less profitable and companies leave the business.”
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The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate President Trump’s second attempt at a travel ban on all refugees and citizens of six majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. The Justice Department has vowed to challenge the appeals court ruling and take it to the Supreme Court.
The court ruled 10-3 to uphold a ruling from a district court judge in Maryland that blocked a portion of the order that temporarily banned travel to the United States by nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. In the majority decision, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote that Trump’s executive order uses “vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”
Judge Gregory listed televised interviews and numerous statements made at political rallies that, in the court’s view, indicated the true intentions of the order. He cited a rally statement in which Trump called the second order a “watered down version” of the first order as well as a televised interview with Rudy Giuliani who said that Trump had asked him to devise an immigration ban within the bounds of legality.
The judge wrote that a reasonable observer would likely conclude the order’s “primary purpose is to exclude persons from the United States on the basis of their religious beliefs”. The government argued that Trump’s comments on the campaign trail should not be taken into account since they occurred before he took office on Jan 20. The appeals court rejected that view, saying they provide a window into the motivations for Trump’s action in government.
The appeals court questioned a government argument that the president has wide authority to halt the entry of people to the United States. They were reviewing a March ruling by Maryland-based federal judge Theodore Chuang that blocked part of Trump’s March 6 executive order barring people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days while the government put in place stricter visa screening. A similar ruling against Trump’s policy from a Hawaii-based federal judge is still in place. The Hawaii judge’s ruling also blocked a section of the travel ban that also suspended refugee admissions for four months. The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is still reviewing that decision.
The Trump administration has argued that the temporary travel ban is a national security measure aimed at preventing Islamist militant attacks. “That’s why it’s not a Muslim ban”. The countries were not chosen because they are predominantly Muslim but because they present terrorism risks, the administration has said.
After the 4th Circuit Court ruling, Attorney-general Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the government would seek a review of the case at the Supreme Court. White House spokesperson Michael Short said “These clearly are very dangerous times and we need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists from entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence,” adding that the White House was confident the order would ultimately be upheld by the judiciary.
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Twenty-two people were killed and 116 injured after a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device at an Ariana Grande concert held in the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. The explosion occurred as people were exiting the arena after the show ended. Concert-goers and parents waiting to pick up their children were in the arena’s foyer when the bomb went off. The dead included ten people under the age of 20, the youngest an eight-year-old girl. Days later, 75 people remained hospitalized, 23 of them, including five children, in critical condition.
The sold out show was part of Ariana Grande’s 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour where up to 21,000 attended. As news of the explosion quickly spread, residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation to those left stranded at the concert. Nearby hotel became a shelter for children separated from parents in the aftermath of the explosion. Many local temples, businesses and homeowners offered immediate shelter to victims as they waited for news of missing loved ones.
The day after the attack, Prime Minister Theresa May raised the terror threat level from severe to critical. A critical threat level means that it is believed another attack is imminent. It also means members of the British military will be deployed throughout the country to supplement its police forces. Nearly 4,000 soldiers were deployed nationwide in the wake of the bombing. ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing which is the 13th deadly terrorist attack in Western Europe since the beginning of 2015.
The bomber was identified as 22 year old Salman Ramadan Abedi, a British Muslim who was born in Manchester to Libyan-born refugees. Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities about his extremism, by as many as five people, including community leaders, neighbors and possibly family members.
Authorities had investigated him but did not consider him high risk at the time. Authorities have revealed that Abedi had returned to the UK from Turkey four days prior to the attack. French interior minister Gérard Collomb said that Abedi may have been to Syria, and had “proven” links with ISIS. Manchester police believe Abedi used student loans to finance the plot, including travel overseas to learn bomb-making.
Police have conducted several raids and detained a total of eight people in connection to the attack and said they were investigating a “network” as the probe intensified. Authorities have confirmed that Abedi’s father and younger brother have been arrested in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The brother was suspected of planning an attack in Libya and was said to be in regular touch with Salman. Investigators believe his brother was aware of the plan to bomb the Manchester Arena, but not the date. According to a Libyan official, the brothers spoke on the phone about 15 minutes before the attack was carried out in Manchester.
Abedi’s father, Ramadan Abedi was born in Libya but fled under fear of arrest by the brutal regime of Moammar Gadhafi in 1993. He won asylum in Britain, where his sons were born. Abedi later returned to Libya and works as an administrator for the government, which has been in disarray since Gadhafi was toppled in 2011.
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A federal judge in Mississippi has sentenced a Gulfport man to 49 years in prison for murdering a transgender teenager, in the first-ever hate crime prosecution involving a transgender victim. Joshua Vallum, 29, plead guilty in the 2015 killing of 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson and was sentenced to life in prison in July 2016 by an Alabama judge. The Department of Justice later decided to pursue hat crime charges. He was sentenced under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Vallum, a long time Latin Kings gang member, was arrested just days after the murder when his own father reported the crime to police. He initially told investigators that he blacked out and killed Williamson when he discovered she was transgendered. Several witnesses stepped forward saying that Vallum knew she was transgendered and the two had been in an 8 month relationship.
He later admitted that his motive for the killing was fear of being killed once fellow gang members found out. Jeanie Miller, Williamson’s roommate testified that Vallum once told her and Williamson that his gang would kill both Vallum and Williamson if Williamson’s transgender status was discovered. His brother Jacob saw him on the night of the murder covered in blood and testified that Vallum told him: ‘Well, it was my life or his.’
Prosecutors say Vallum killed Mercedes Williamson after the end of their relationship, because a friend learned that she was transgender, a fact Mr. Vallum kept hidden from friends and family while they dated. On May 30th, Vallum lured Williamson into his car in Alabama and drove her 50 miles to his family home near Lucedale, Mississippi. He then shocked her with a stun gun and stabbed her in the body and head with a pocketknife. When Williamson tried to run into the woods, Vallum chased her down and beat her to death with a hammer.
Vallum confessed to his father Bobby Vallum on June 1st that he had murdered and buried Williamson on the rural property. Bobby Vallum took the information to police, leading to Josh Vallum being charged with murder. Williamson was one of at least 21 transgender people murdered in the U.S. in 2015.
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The recent cyber-attack has reignited the debate over whether or not governments should disclose vulnerabilities they have discovered or bought on the black market. Privacy experts are also calling the recent global ransomware attack that hit 150 countries a prime example of why requiring tech companies to create backdoors into computer programs is a bad idea. The danger of those digital keys being stolen has the potential to wreak havoc.
The global computer hack that used a cyber-weapon developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), disrupted hospitals, universities, government offices, gas stations, ATM machines and more than 300,000 computers worldwide. Less than 10 U.S. organizations reported attacks to the Department of Homeland Security. The attack caused the most damage in Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine and India.
It’s the first time a cyber-weapon developed by the NSA has been stolen and released by hackers. The NSA has neither confirmed nor denied that they developed the cyber-weapon. Elements of the malicious software used in the attacks were part of a treasure trove of cyber-attack tools leaked by hacking group the Shadow Brokers in April. One of the tools contained in the leak, codenamed EternalBlue, proved to be “the most significant factor” in the spread of the ransom ware used in the attack.
The ransom ware was transmitted by email and then encrypted thousands of computers, locking people out of their data and then threatened to destroy it unless a ransom was paid. The cyberattack locked medical workers out of the computer systems at dozens of British and Indonesian hospitals, disrupted train schedules in Germany and froze government computers from Russia’s Interior Ministry to police stations in India.
The cyber-weapon used exploits weaknesses in Microsoft software. The U.S. government have known for years about this weakness in the software but only told Microsoft about the vulnerability recently. Microsoft had fixed the problem a month prior to the EternalBlue leak on April 14th but many high-profile targets had not updated their systems to stay secure.
The cyber-attack eased but the group who released the global WannaCry “ransomware” attack warned it would release more malicious code. ShadowBrokers said they would release more recent code to enable hackers to break into the world’s most widely used computers, software and phones. A blog post written by the group promised to release tools every month to anyone willing to pay for access to some of the tech world’s biggest commercial secrets. It also threatened to dump data from banks using the SWIFT international money transfer network and from Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean nuclear and missile programs. “More details in June,” it promised.
Cyber security researchers around the world have said they have found evidence that could link North Korea with the WannaCry cyber attack but that it is too early to confirm a definitive connection.
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Members of the Trump administration and Pentagon officials are pushing for the deployment 3,000 to 5,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. There are currently about 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Officials are also looking for the relaxation of restrictions on launching airstrikes. The recommendation comes after the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, warned the war has reached a stalemate. Trump is expected to decide whether to approve the deployment of additional troops later this month.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul to speak with Nicholson just days after an attack by a Taliban-affiliated militants killed 140 Afghan troops, most of whom were unarmed in a mosque praying at their base. The Pentagon’s proposal is aimed at countering the resilient Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan by adding thousands more troops closer to combat and bombarding the Taliban with airstrikes. Army General John Nicholson told the Senate the security situation had deteriorated. If approved, the decision would allow U.S. troops to partner with Afghan forces closer to the fight rather than just playing an advisory role.
The Pentagon had been focused on ending its presence in Afghanistan since 2001 but after the September 11th attacks, U.S. forces, with 100,000 troops deployed-helped topple the Taliban government that had given shelter to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
With the end of the combat mission “Enduring Freedom” and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the United States had pulled out most its troops in late 2014. The Obama administration decided to leave a force of about 13,000 troops in place after responding to pleas from U.S. Commanders. The 13,000 includes all active duty service personnel from all branches (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force), National Guard and Reserve as well as civilian employees of the Department of Defense and civilian contractors (APF) – which make up the smallest group.
There have been restrictions in place regarding how close Americans could accompany Afghan forces in combat and on bombing Taliban targets. Those rules were eased last year, and the Pentagon’s recent proposal would grant added authority for air strikes. The current NATO-led operation in Afghanistan is called “Resolute Support” and aims to train and advise the Afghan security forces. Sporadic combat operations are left to Special Forces. The U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan is America’s longest war and the Pentagon’s proposal means it won’t be ending any time soon.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, May 21st, 2017 was:
TONYA VELAZQUEZ
Shillington, PA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/15/17
Rondi Clark-Conn
Anna Nichols
Jennifer Leffler
Nitasha Shank
Lisa Jimenez
Cheryl Hall
Nai Merri
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Dawn Raasch
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Tera Wardrip
Stephanie Caldwell
Michelle Hughes
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Kimberly Snyder
Brittany Marie Thompson
Carole Jacobs
Karen Bondehagen
Rebecca Fauteux
5/16/17
Deborah Farris
Christy Hawkes
Anggie Marie
Beth Cleveland
Jodi Brown
Jennifer Lang
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Karen Jaras
Juanita Williams-Jones
Melissa Turner Baker
Kendra George
Jennifer Ramlet
Tonya Velazquez
Sandy Nevels
Jennifer Fremont
Eleazar Ruiz
Amber McGrath
Debbie Burke Garretson
Linda Chojnacki
Trish Marks
5/17/17
Lotorya Patrick
Tonya Velazquez
Jenifer Garza
Dean Bruss
Shelby Lynn
Beata Tybor
Bea Patrick
Cassandra Berholtz
Alisa Jones
Paula Rousseau
Debbie Smith
Diane Hamric
Kalyani Nam
Preeti Chand
Wayne Gallas
Beeg Reeb
Teena Sierson
Kristina Harris
Jennifer Ramlet
Mary Achio
Allison Frederick
Meg Marshall
5/18/17
Nai Merri
Juanita Williams-Jones
Brandi K Chaney
Wayne Gallas
Sheila Carvell
Alisa Jones
Melissa Barnes Walker
Dave Miller
Samantha Smith
Lisa David Carr
Alexandria Fields
Teena Sierson
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Valerie Kuehn
Sherri Kidwell
Anna Nichols
Jacqlyn Gummert
Belinda Haas
Kelly Prestenbach
Phyllis Hines
5/19/17
Crystal Young
Deborah Farris
Holly Cajigas
Teena Sierson
Jade Good
Jacqlyn Gummert
Emily Rice Bowersock
Tera Wardrip
Eleazar Ruiz
Nitasha Shank
Preeti Chand
Jennifer Ramlet
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Abby Cox
Rondi Clark-Conn
Brittany Deaver
Trish Marks
Kristen Raia Bowman
Alexandria Fields
Dale Fish
Sherri Kidwell
5/20/17
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Nai Merri
Roberta Thomas
Jakara Jackson
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Eleazar Ruiz
Lotorya Patrick
Jacqlyn Gummert
Krissy Brislin
Heather Jacques
Melissa Turner Baker
Bobbie J Rittenhouse
Cheyenne Shaw
Kathi Taylor
Michelle R. Carlino
D Shanel Collins
Karen Rimiller Presley
Jennifer Mapes
Wayne Gallas
Karen Bondehagen
Poonam Gosain
5/21/17
Deborah Farris
Jennifer Ramlet
Jennifer Downing
Steve Hardy
Christy Hawkes
Marie Beauregard
Sheila Carvell
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Chrissy Kim
Kayla Clemons
Brandy Williams
Carol Yemola
Alexis Maureen
Nai Merri
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Trish Marks
Dean Bruss
Susanne Killion
Kimberly Snyder
Timothy Simpson
Amanda Peters
Jennifer Lang
Alysia Jackson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. You may also find that if you “Like” both of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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