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A U.S. Marine was awarded the service’s highest non-combat award on Feb. 6 for heroic actions in 2024, when he saved another Marine’s life following a motor vehicle accident. Staff Sgt. Billy Scafidel, an armory chief with the 7th Engineer Support Battalion in the 1st Marine Logistics Group, received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during a ceremony at Camp Pendleton, California, according to a release.On Sept. 1, 2024, Scafidel was working outside of his home near the installation’s Del Mar Boat Basin when he heard a loud splash in the ocean. Upon investigating the sound, he discovered a truck…

The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer wants to convince commanders to use smaller, newer assets for missions instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers — as seen now in the American military buildups off Venezuela and Iran.Adm. Daryl Caudle’s vision — what he calls his “Fighting Instructions” — calls for the Navy to deploy more tailored groups of ships and equipment that would offer the sea service more flexibility to respond to crises as they develop.The new strategy comes as the Trump administration has moved aircraft carriers and other ships to regions around the world as concerns have cropped…

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.On the morning of May 25, 2006, I didn’t go out. Capt. Doug Dicenzo invited me to come along to meet some local Iraqi leaders, and I had previously shown him the safer routes to take. But on the day of the meeting, I had other duties to attend to. Truthfully, I had survived enough near misses and just didn’t want to go.Doug and his gunner, Robert Blair went and were killed by a roadside bomb.…

Soldiers and families at Fort Hood, Texas, will be the first to sample the Army’s new campus-style dining as part of a pilot program designed to promote access to a variety of healthier, tastier foods. The 42 Bistro, named after the 1942 establishment of the camp, is scheduled for a grand opening on Feb. 18 and will be accessible seven days a week from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.Soldiers on the Essential Station Messing program — especially those in the barracks using a meal card — will have an entitlement of $39, or “freedom dollars,” per day to use at…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. As disagreements over restoring free-roaming bison to the West grows more heated, dozens of tribes are weighing in. The united front from more than 50 Native American tribes comes in direct response to a recent decision by the Interior Department to revoke American Prairie’s bison grazing leases on several Bureau of Land Management parcels in Montana. On Friday the conservation nonprofit followed through on its promise to challenge that decision, delivering an official letter of protest to the BLM’s state director…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News. Introduction: The Great AI Deception of 2025 Last year, pundits and skeptics declared artificial intelligence had hit a wall. They claimed the AI bubble was deflating, that machine cognition had plateaued, and that human ingenuity would remain irreplaceable. They were catastrophically wrong. The year 2026 has arrived, and with it, a seismic shift. The narrative of a stalled revolution was a comforting illusion for a workforce unprepared for the reality now unfolding. Human cognition, long celebrated as our crowning achievement, is being objectively dwarfed by silicon-based intelligence. This isn’t…

The Pentagon will award the Purple Heart to Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and posthumously to Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, two members of the West Virginia National Guard who were fired upon in an ambush-style shooting just blocks from the White House in November.Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her wounds on Nov. 27, while Wolfe, 24, underwent surgery for a gunshot to the head and has since made “extraordinary progress,” according to the National Guard. The fatal attack occurred the day before Thanksgiving during a routine patrol outside of a Washington, D.C., Metro station.“One lost, one recovered,” Secretary of Defense…

The U.S. Air Force must buy at least 500 sixth-generation fighters and bombers — more than it already plans — to be able to prevail in a war against China, the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies said Monday.In its policy paper, “Strategic Attack: Maintaining the Air Force’s Capacity to Deny Enemy Sanctuaries,” experts from the Mitchell Institute argue that the Air Force needs at least 300 next-generation F-47 fighters and at least 200 B-21 Raider stealth bombers to counter China. The Air Force has previously signaled it plans to buy at least 185 F-47s from Boeing and at least 100…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Louisiana anglers Drake Wadsworth, 21, and his buddy Maguire Parker were entered in a 161-boat team bass tournament Saturday on the famed 185,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir that sits on the Texas-Louisiana state line. Both anglers know the lake well, and they were fast into fish on Feb. 7. “I caught a 5-pounder pretty quick, at a spot I’ve fished a lot over the years on Toledo Bend,” Wadsworth tells Outdoor Life. “I spotted a fish high up in flooded timber [on sonar] that I knew was…

China has asked all of its banks to reduce exposure to American debt, citing rising market volatility and geopolitical risks. China has been steadily whittling away at its United States treasury holdings since peaking in 2013. Bloomberg [behind a paywall] has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The shift away from American debt has seen China overtaken by Japan and the United Kingdom as the largest foreign holders. Since peaking at around $1.3 trillion in 2013, its holdings have fallen roughly by half to about $650–700 billion, reaching levels not seen since 2008, according to a report by RT.  Investors…

They spoke different languages and wore different uniforms but for four grueling days, U.S. and Italian soldiers operated under German standards to earn a foreign military badge few American troops are authorized to wear. In early February, more than 110 candidates completed ruck marches, weapons qualifications, a swimming event and academic assessments in hopes of earning the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge at an Italian military base, the U.S. Army announced Monday. The Army said the event was meant to bring together U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) forces and neighboring units and build morale and relationships with…

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has launched Mission Control, a first-of-its-kind digital command-and-control system designed to unify planning, execution and reporting for all drone operations across the country, as Kyiv seeks more innovative ways to move the frozen front line on the battlefield after almost four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.The new system sits inside DELTA, Ukraine’s battlefield management ecosystem — an operational platform that already connects sensors and shooters across air, land, maritime, cyber, and space domains. Ukrainian drone crews enter operational data into the system, including drone type, launch location, flight route, and mission task, which generates reports on…

Russia has stated that it will not attack the European Union (EU) or NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member states unless it is attacked first. The comment came from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who added that Western officials have justified increasing military spending by citing the need to defend NATO’s eastern flank. “We have no intention of attacking Europe. There is no reason to do so,” Lavrov told NTV in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia has repeatedly stated that it has not and does not intend to attack any country, but that it will defend itself if attacked.…

U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday.The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces U.S. sanctions on its oil and relies on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains.However, the Aquila II was one of at least 16 tankers that departed the Venezuelan coast last month after U.S. forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com. He said his organization used satellite imagery…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Stock Killer,” appeared in the January 2004 Adventure Issue of Outdoor Life. On July 26, 1992, Billie Worthen watched the western sky fade to stars before unloading her rifle and leaving a herd of 876 sheep grazing in Spring Canyon, 8,000 feet above sea level in Utah’s Fish Lake National Forest. The guard dogs had the night shift. When the sun came back around the other side, Worthen left her sheep house and rode her mare up to the…

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in DAV Magazine, a publication of the congressionally chartered national nonprofit DAV (Disabled American Veterans).Even the blaring sounds of a 100-piece jazz band turned to whispers in the throngs of cheering Americans who lined New York City’s Fifth Avenue on Feb. 17, 1919.It was the city’s first homecoming for troops returning from the Great War. The Sun newspaper described the crowds as “two solid walls of booming, roaring welcomers,” and soldiers “decorated with flowers like brides.”The men were the city’s own, having originated as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment in Harlem…

Troops from the United Kingdom have crossed Russia’s red line, by being deployed on the ground in Ukraine. Russia stated that the UK has given it every opportunity to view it as a party to the coflict, at this point. Moscow’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, has said that Russia will now be declaring the UK “a de facto party to the conflict.” British involvement is deep and reflects a strategy of containing Russia, Kelin told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Monday, as reported by RT.  Russia Mocks Canada Over Promise To Send Troops To Ukraine Previously, France…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The alarm on my cell phone goes off and I can’t feel my arm as I reach out to silence it. It’s asleep. I wish the rest of me was too. I keep reaching and then, BOOM! I misjudged the distance and now I’m on the floor. Part of the problem is that I forgot I slept on the couch. It’s 2 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and I don’t think it’s fair to disturb my wife when I’m getting up…

This article was originally published by Michael Matulef at The Mises Institute.  “The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”—Frédéric Bastiat Bastiat’s insight grows more prophetic by the day. Watch what happens in any crisis. The reaction is predictable: people fracture into warring tribes, each certain it’s fighting for survival. Neighbors become informants, families split over ideology, and communities turn against themselves. While citizens exhaust one another in moral crusades, something else advances quietly—the concentration of power. Bureaucracies expand, authority tightens, and the machinery of control grows ever more intricate.…

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