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The U.S. Marine Corps is offering early separation to enlisted Marines in two dozen military occupational specialties as part of a force-shaping effort tied to budget constraints.According to the July 1 policy message, the service announced the Voluntary Enlisted Early Release Program as “a deliberate force-shaping initiative” that allows eligible Marines to apply for separation before the end of the fiscal year.Yvonne Carlock, a spokeswoman for the service’s Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told USNI News that the program was “designed to balance the Marine Corps’ end strength and ensure long-term fiscal health and operational readiness.”The program allows certain enlisted Marines…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics On June 2, six anglers chartered Captain Joey Maciasz’s 44-foot catamaran “Timbuktu” for a 36-hour long-range bottom fishing trip out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. They hoped to catch some fish, but had no idea they would go on to potentially break multiple state records. Port Fourchon is well-known as one of the Gulf of America’s premier fishing jump-off spots. It’s the southernmost port in Louisiana and is in the heart of the state’s offshore oil and gas drilling business. Thus, the waters off Port Fourchon are…

A staple of the skies during the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey began its final chapter in service on Tuesday with the delivery of the last model.With the acceptance of the 359th — and final — tiltrotor aircraft, the Marine Corps marked the end of the MV-22B Osprey program of record, a milestone that will now shift efforts towards “sustaining and modernizing the fleet for decades to come,” the V-22 Joint Program Office, which manages the Osprey program, said in a statement. “The MV-22B … fundamentally changed the way the Marine Air-Ground Task Force…

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This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  The War Is Over — and We Lost Today is a pivot point in the conflict. As of today, I believe the United States has decisively lost the war with Iran, and we are now in a fighting retreat. This is not speculation or defeatism but a sober assessment based on undeniable evidence. Colonel Douglas McGregor and other military experts have been warning for years that the U.S. military machine cannot win a sustained conflict against a determined, geographically gifted, and technologically capable adversary like Iran. Now their predictions…

The Pentagon has formally launched the Europe force posture review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last month, beginning a process to examine U.S. military troop presence, force posture and basing across Europe.Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby announced on X Tuesday that the Defense Department had “kicked off” the review Hegseth unveiled during the NATO defense ministerial in Brussels on June 18. Hegseth described the effort at the time as “a real review” of America’s force posture and basing in Europe.Neither Hegseth’s announcement nor Colby’s statement announced troop reductions, unit movements or installation changes as part of the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics On June 2, six anglers chartered Captain Joey Maciasz’s 44-foot catamaran “Timbuktu” for a 36-hour long-range bottom fishing trip out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. They hoped to catch some fish, but had no idea they would go on to potentially break multiple state records. Port Fourchon is well-known as one of the Gulf of America’s premier fishing jump-off spots. It’s the southernmost port in Louisiana and is in the heart of the state’s offshore oil and gas drilling business. Thus, the waters off Port Fourchon are…

The Coast Guard’s medium icebreaker Healy was towed to Port Angeles, Washington, earlier this month as a result of a “significant engineering casualty,” according to a release.The Cutter Healy, which recently completed drydock repairs at the Swan Island shipyard in Portland, Oregon, lost propulsion during sea trials off the Washington coast July 13 and was towed to port without incident. Coast Guard officials said no personnel were injured in the mishap.The 420-foot ship underwent a $18.3 million overhaul earlier this year that included restoring propulsion components such as shafts, bearings, seals, rudders and its bow thruster. Vigor Marine LLC also…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics IT WAS 1 A.M., and Lake St. John was truly a thing of beauty. The Louisiana moon had climbed above the maze of cypress trees and was flooding the water’s surface with lambent patterns of light. A warm June breeze swayed the beards of gray Spanish moss as I worked our boat into position. My night-fishing companion, Don Patterson, leaned forward in the bow and whipped his plug under some low-hanging branches. As often happens at night, his cast was a trifle long, and the lure…

An officer in the D.C. National Guard admitted Tuesday to an international sham marriage, false immigration documents and tens of thousands of dollars in stolen government funds to support a woman he married abroad and brought back to the U.S.Maj. Collin L. Welch, 40, pleaded guilty to unlawfully introducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. and the theft of around $54,000 in government money, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, D.C. He is scheduled for sentencing in December. As a married man, Welch was posted in 2019 to the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where he kindled a…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Mid-summer bass fishing isn’t easy. In fact, it can be some of the toughest fishing of the year. The water temperatures have spiked, causing bass and other gamefish to head for deeper, cooler waters. Their primary feeding patterns and areas may still be on shallower flats and rock piles, but they’re only spending short amounts of time in those areas, rather than hunting them continuously like they do in the spring and fall. Early mornings and late evenings are the best times to fish those locations…

United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that Iran launched a “surprise attack” on Washington’s bases in the Middle East. The US Department of War has not yet identified the targeted facilities, but said that the missiles had been aimed at American forces “based” in the region. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that several ballistic missiles had targeted a US air base and what it described as a US Central Command headquarters in Jordan. The group said the strike was carried out in response to “aggressive actions” by the US military and warned that its attacks…

Spurred on by the threat of unmanned boats and small drones in contested waters such as the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon has set out to quickly find a cheap countermeasure. The Defense Department has put out a solicitation for robot boats that are capable of launching small attack drones — with technology mature enough to be deployed to the field within 120 days. The goal for the Suitable Warfighting Adaptive Payloads, or SWAP-USV, project is to find “mature, market-ready [unmanned surface vessels] fully integrated with two or more mature, market-ready aerial drones to detect, identify, track, and defeat hostile threats,”…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Best Production Morakniv Garberg Best Budget Condor Terrasaur Best Small Morakniv Eldris I’m a survival instructor, so I’ve used and seen a lot of knives go through my courses. I’ve learned that a survival knife needs to be a jack of all trades. That’s why to test the following knives, I carved wood, sliced meat, broke bones, and cut rope. The blade isn’t the only business end of a good survival knife. So I also tested the knives’ spines for their ability to scrape fat…

Military families relocating to four more areas can receive a $125 grocery stipend to redeem for food, beverages and baby essentials, according to the nonprofit Military Family Advisory Network.New programs have launched at Naval Station Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area in Virginia, as well as at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Programs launch within the next few weeks at installations in the San Diego, California, area and around Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. The additions will bring the total number of installations served by MFAN’s Fresh Funds program to 17 across six states.The other areas where the Fresh…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Northern Minnesota has been ravaged by wildfire this summer. For weeks, these fires have burned through areas of the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, even forcing the Forest Service to close and evacuate the popular canoeing and camping area. While wildfires in this part of the Northwoods are not uncommon, this year’s fires were more extreme than usual. They led to prolonged and hazardous air quality issues that drifted south and impacted much of the country. What’s frustrating for a…

Iran has demanded that Ukraine pay restitution for attacking a cargo ship; however, Kiev insists it was an accident and that the strike was unintentional. The Ukrainian foreign minister has abruptly changed course with his rhetoric on the cargo ship strike, seeking to “avoid unnecessary escalation.” Ukrainian forces struck the Anna early on Saturday, causing an explosion that killed one Iranian sailor and injured another. It also angered Iran’s ruling class. Kiev’s foreign minister, Andrey Sibiga, initially said that “Iran has no standing to pretend to be a victim,” only to call Tehran a day later and assure it that…

Boeing’s Air Force One program caused the defense company to lose $280 million in the second quarter of 2026, according to earnings the contractor released Tuesday.The contractor has faced setbacks in delivering two Air Force One aircraft for presidential use by its initial projected timeline due to a lack of properly cleared workers and supply chain issues, causing President Donald Trump to use a Qatari-donated jet in the interim.Trump first traveled with the modified Qatari aircraft in early July, but just a couple weeks later, revealed that it would be “maxed out” for upgrades since the plane lacks necessary security…

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The U.S. Navy is rapidly advancing its unmanned surface fleet. Just a little over two weeks after U.S. Central Command utilized three Corsair unmanned surface vessels to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas naval base in Iran, marking the “first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations,” the Navy confirmed its first live-fire training exercise of its Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft uncrewed surface vessel.Two former U.S. warships, the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu and the cruiser USS Mobile Bay, were sent below the seas off the coast of Hawaii during a live…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. A Montana man is recovering from a gruesome hiking injury. David Cifaldi of Billings fell while hiking at high elevation and unintentionally impaled himself on one of his own trekking poles. One pole hit the ground when he slipped on some rocks. The tip of the other stabbed him in the torso, piercing the skin on his left side. It angled under his armpit, from front to back, but luckily missed his organs. “By the time I rolled over, I kind of knew something wasn’t right,”…

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