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Earlier this month, the US Air Force ended height restrictions for pilots in hopes of attracting a more diverse pool of candidates, which the Air Force hopes will result in more female applicants. The new rules went into effect on May 13 for applicants.Previously, pilots were required to stand 64 to 77 inches tall. The Air Force said that medical and operations communities will apply an anthropometric screening process to individual applicants for placement in an aircraft they can safely fly as they pursue a rated track. The Air Force says that its previous requirement eliminated about 44% of female applicants age 20 to 29. “Historically, most of our aircraft were engineered around the height of an average male, not females,” said Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber, Air Force mobility planner and programmer and team leader on the Women’s Initiative Team.Government data says that the average American adult woman stands 63.8 inches tall, while the average man in the US stands 69.3 inches. The Air Force had a waiver process that allowed applicants who didn’t meet height requirements the opportunity to be considered, but the Air Force said that the process could have scared off applicants. “While most height waivers were approved under the old system, feedback indicated the entire waiver process served as a barrier, which negatively impacted female rated accessions,” said Lt. Col. Christianne Opresko, branch chief on the Air Force’s Air Crew Task Force and an aerospace physiologist. “It’s hard to determine how many women did not previously apply due to their perception of not being fully qualified or having to pursue a waiver.” 1655

Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Syria became public."Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis wrote in his letter."One core belief I have always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. While the US remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies," he added.Trump first announced Mattis' departure in a tweet."General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years," Trump tweeted.Trump touted the "tremendous progress" that has been made during Mattis' tenure at the helm of the Defense Department and thanked Mattis for his service.Trump said a successor "will be named shortly."Mattis and the President's other top national security advisers opposed Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria.Mattis’ resignation letter makes it clear. “My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues.” 1546

DETROIT — Three white women who live on Detroit's east side lied to police when they reported that Marc Peeples threatened to burn down their houses and kill them, according to a lawsuit that has now been filed by defense attorney Robert Burton-Harris, who is representing Peeples in a civil suit. 309

Damien, 13, didn't believe it when he found out his new foster parent would be his math teacher, Finn Lanning."The previous two foster homes said that they were stable," the seventh-grader told CNN with a hint of disappointment in his voice. "I didn't think that this one would last either."Lanning and Damien first met at the beginning of the school year in August 2018 at the AXL Academy in Aurora, Colorado.The teacher said he knew right away that the boy was special. "He is well-mannered, polite and exceptionally smart," said Lanning, who asked that Damien's last name not be used.The teenager also faces a lot of challenges.When he was 8, Damien's kidneys failed, and he went on dialysis.He has moved through many foster homes over the years. This instability had kept him off the list to receive a kidney donation; his itinerant life raised the risk of transplant failure."Since his diagnosis, he has had to live in the hospital. One stay was a year. Others were a couple of months. That was the result (of) a lack of suitable placement," Lanning told CNN.Any guardian must be trained to meet Damien's needs. The boy spends more than 12 hours each day connected to a home dialysis machine and has a restrictive diet."No way!" Lanning recalls thinking of the demands that would face him. " 'This is not something that I'm going to do.' But as time went on, I felt a call to engage with it. I couldn't just not do it. I didn't see it as an option."In December, Lanning started training to care for Damien.A bond over food and mathDamien's only concern about living with his teacher?He was worried he might have to do a lot of homework, the math instructor told CNN with laughter.But Lanning said math is a subject Damien does well in."I'll be his teacher for another year before he's off to high school," he said.The two share a love of food and enjoy cooking together, but with his kidney problems, the boy can't eat a lot of their creations."His favorite thing to cook is seafood," Lanning said. "Hopefully soon he will be able to eat things."Damien looks forward to eating nachos from 7-Eleven."It's always been a favorite," the boy said. "And I want a hot and spicy chicken sandwich from McDonald's with extra mayonnaise."A new lifeLanning and Damien are adjusting to their new lives together after more than three months.Because of the boy's dietary restrictions, their food bill is high. "We spend about 0 a week on (groceries)," the teacher told CNN.Lanning has started a 2500

CORNING, Mo. — As the cleanup along the Missouri River continues following significant flooding last month, several communities are finally seeing what the floodwaters left behind.Flooding ravaged farmers along the Missouri Bottoms, including 71-year-old Bruce Biermann’s farm in Corning, Missouri.The fourth-generation farmer surveyed his farm on Wednesday. He said two grain bins containing corn and soybeans were destroyed.The strong current washed the bins into his front yard and even into neighboring fields.“They are now deteriorating, rotting, swelling up and sprouting,” Biermann said.He stored the grain because it was a down year for market value on the crops. He was hoping to sell when prices increased.“This year it wasn’t as attractive as we needed it or what we would have liked for it to be, but we needed to start moving grain,” he said.He learned a hard lesson: all of his grain is now ruined and will not be covered by insurance because stored crops aren’t covered under federal law.“All this would have to come out of our pocket, along with the loss of income from the grain that has no market value left whatsoever now,” Biermann said.The financial damage totals around 0,000 in lost grain.“That money was supposed to go ahead and help me finance and do my farming for 2019,” he said.Biermann won’t be in the fields this year. Over his 71 years, he said he's been through a lot of floods, but this one might be his last.With the possibility of more flooding on the way, Biermann hopes lawmakers make changes soon to help farmers in these situations. 1586

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