Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics I’VE FISHED WITH Oliver Ngy on my home waters twice, and I walked away from both trips so inspired I was giddy, yet hopelessly frustrated at the same time. It’s rare for me to meet a fisherman who bucks the mindset of the average angler so hard it makes me feel as though I’m a novice on the water — despite my having been utterly devoted to, and infatuated with, the sport for more than 30 years.  But no matter how dialed in you think you…

The Pentagon has codified sweeping changes to military fitness requirements, some of which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last fall. The new regulations, published Aug. 31, spell out testing timelines, standards for troops in combat arms specialties, guidelines for pregnancy and postpartum fitness and establish tracking mechanisms for testing results across the services. The policy incorporates directives issued throughout 2025 into a set of standards for the services. Among them: commanders must allow time for physical fitness every duty day and troops in jobs designated as “combat arms” must be held to male fitness standards on regular fitness tests. Many…

Retired Army special operations master sergeant Pasha Palanker first met Marc Andersen during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the man who now manages Army finances was handing out diapers at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, as part of volunteer work to support military families. Palanker was impressed — both by Andersen’s tall stature and formidable presence and by how he seemed to be serving the military community without a spotlight or a political agenda. The two quickly developed a close relationship. On Sept. 5, Palanker posted a series of photos of himself with Andersen on his Instagram, along with a “wholehearted” endorsement…

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and outside Washington, D.C., she saw service as a chance to give back to the country where her father — a truck driver and naturalized citizen from Mexico — had carved his own path.“My dad loves this country so much. … He came to…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Trail cameras used to run on 6-volt batteries and use film. Then they evolved to AA batteries and SD cards, and now we live in a time when you don’t need an SD card at all, and rechargeable lithium has pushed battery life from weeks to months. By coupling a rechargeable lithium battery with a solar panel, you can push battery life from dove season right…

One sheet of paper. That’s the drill.

Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.At least one seafarer aboard a tanker was reported killed and another listed as missing. The attacks sent the price of oil surging, with the international Brent crude benchmark breaching $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Iran also said it had fired ballistic missiles at a base used by U.S. forces in Jordan. Attacks by both…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Capt. Kurt Christensen is a longtime veteran at catching big bluefin tuna from his 45-foot charter boat Molly Jane. But the giant tuna he and his crew of anglers caught on Labor Day morning is the biggest he’s ever seen in U.S. waters. “We knew a good spot where the bait stacked on a 164-foot ridge top with deep water all around it about 20 miles offshore,” the 62-year-old captain tells Outdoor Life. “The wind was blowing 25 knots that night when we got anchored on…

Getting flat is easy. Getting steady takes technique.

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There was a lull in the action and our guide Mike Stahlman was searching to fill the silence that had crept into our duck blind. As any veteran duck hunter seems to do, he got to bitching about other duck hunters. “One thing that I just can’t stand is when people call them ‘scrap’ ducks,” Stahlman said, with real frustration in his voice. “If they’re just scrap ducks to you, then don’t shoot them.” That morning we had shot a few gadwall, wigeon, and ring-necked…

One tip for standing shots. Most people never got told.

The Pentagon has decided which company will make the U.S. Navy’s next-generation stealth fighter and could announce the winner in the coming weeks or sooner, two people briefed on the matter said.Boeing and Northrop Grumman are competing for the contract, which previous programs of similar scope suggest could be worth tens of billions of dollars over its lifetime.The program, currently unnamed but designated F/A-XX, has been buffeted by delays and funding disputes for years. Some Pentagon officials had sought to delay it by up to three years, citing concerns about engineering and supply chain capacity. Congress pushed back, earmarking $750…

Transition or reload. Old argument, worth hearing out.

The U.S. Air Force is looking to turn its cargo planes into launch platforms for drone swarms.Or more specifically, the service would like transport aircraft and their retinue of drones to deploy to Air Force bases. Once there, this swarm of AI-controlled drones would autonomously defend the bases — and any aircraft parked there — from attack.The goal is to transform cargo planes into “adaptive, force-multiplying launch platforms” that provide “a rapidly deployable swarm for base security,” according to an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research solicitation. The deadline is Oct. 21.The Air Force is looking for a 3-for-1 deal.…

When Andy Markoff deployed to Mosul with the U.S. Marine Raiders in 2016, one of the challenges they faced as they pushed ISIS fighters back along a hundred-mile front was that they never had enough munitions, he said.Markoff explained that calling in air support was an effective way to clear an area, but with thousands of potential targets and few available weapon systems, he constantly had to calculate whether a particular target was worth it.“Even if that target wasn’t active, knowing that it might be and maintaining availability of that type of a weapon system on station in case it…

Turns out the secret mission was the diversion.

A Secret Service agent describes what he saw inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Hear it from a man who was actually in the building instead of secondhand.

A live Q&A on the weapon Iran is said to have turned on U.S. troops. Watch the full breakdown here before this one gets spun in every direction.

The combat reload is the one you will fumble if you have never drilled it under pressure. Here is how it is done. Watch it, then go practice it.

The argument here is blunt: it never ended, it just moved closer to home. Hear the case laid out in full before you decide what you make of it.

A Tomb Guard weighs in on the Arlington Cemetery drama. When a man who actually stood that watch decides to talk, it is worth hearing all the way through.

Russia launches what is being called a horrific attack, and North Korea moves in fast behind it. Press play for the full breakdown before this one gets spun in every direction.

Reloading with one hand is the skill nobody drills until the day they have to. Here is the key to getting it right. Watch it, then go put in the reps.

The grid goes down and most households find out the hard way what they are missing. Here are the numbers and the gear list. Watch it, then go check your own supplies.