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Government and defense attorneys traded arguments in military court Monday, with the defense for the former commander of Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contending that Maj. Gen. William Cooley is the victim of a "conspiracy" to end his career, and prosecutors arguing that Cooley sexually assaulted a woman.
Like so many others, Tony Baumann was sitting at home with no electricity during October’s ice storm.Without heat, it was cold inside his home. But when he started to feel chills, he knew something was wrong. “I had a 101.8 right at 102 degrees, on a fever. And I said, ‘OK, there’s a problem,’” he recalled.Baumann, who is the director of contracting at the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, ran a fever for seven days. He tried fighting COVID-19 from home until a coworker intervened.“My technical director lost her brother to COVID earlier this year,” Baumann said. “She called and said, I lost my brother, I m not going to lose you. You need to go to the hospital.’”Baumann heeded her advice. He was in the hospital for 10 days. It was scary, he said, as doctors found blood clots in his legs and lungs, among other issues he faced. “You re talking to somebody who doesn t have any health issues. Frankly, it came in and it hit me hard,” h