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Private bedrooms won’t be available to all enlisted Marines

Earlier this year, the Marine Corps unveiled new barracks in Okinawa, Japan, where junior enlisted Marines will have private bedrooms, a departure from the service’s traditional shared-room model.The announcement sparked speculation that similar barracks could be built elsewhere, but the service said the Okinawa complex is a unique case rather…

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Iran says Ukrainian attack on vessel in Caspian Sea killed sailor

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying it resulted in an explosion that killed one sailor and injured another. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has had to counter Iranian-designed drones deployed by Moscow. Kyiv has offered its drone interception expertise to countries in the Middle East that have suffered strikes from Iran.Tehran described the attack on its vessel as an act of aggression and said it would defend its national interests and security, while accusing Kyiv of seeking to expand the war in Ukraine.The Iranian Foreign Ministry…

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Oregon Initiative That Would Criminalize Hunting and Fishing Has Failed 

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The absurd petition to criminalize hunting, fishing, and ranching in Oregon has failed to make the November ballot.  On Friday afternoon the Oregon Elections Division found the petitioners fell short by about 13,000 valid signatures. At least 117,173 signatures were needed to qualify. No one expected the PEACE Act (People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions) to be approved by voters this November. Even David Michelson, IP28’s chief petitioner, admitted that the intent this year was more to start a conversation within the state, rather…

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These Anglers Train Hopped the Canadian Railway — and Caught Some Giant Pike

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics “Is it ‘Sha-PLOO’?” Dan asks, making a sound like a heavy stone plopped in a pond.“I think the guy at the gas station said ‘CHAP-low,’” Tom says. “Like Chapstick.” “Pretty sure it’s ‘SHAP-lee-oh,’” Brian counters, going full French on it with a third syllable. However you want to say it, it had taken the four of us an entire day to get to the Northern Ontario town of Chapleau, on a drive that saw more moose than bears and more bears than gas stations­—exactly the ratio…

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Museum Curators from Los Angeles Shot the Biggest Bear in the World

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The snow-clad mountains ringing Lake Karluk looked down on the most surprised hunters south of the North Pole. It was only the third day of a trip that might last for weeks. And there in front of them was the writhing, twisting form of the biggest Alaska brown bear any of them had ever seen. They hadn’t planned it that way. Actually, this was to have been sort of a reconnaissance trip for the three men from the Los Angeles County Museum. Melville N. Lincoln…

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I Tangled With My First Mountain Lion at Age 12 — and It Nearly Killed Me

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. It was no easier to grow up in the 1860’s than in the 1950’s, possibly harder. There were certain hazards. Horse thieves murdered my father before I was born. Mother had gone east so I could be born in the bed in Charleston, S. C., where my father and grandfather had been born. Word could have been sent to her by pony express but my uncle—her brother—saw fit to withhold it. So she did not know she was a widow till she got back to…

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