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Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline, “We Pined for the Comforts of Home. We Got Tube Socks and Old Candy for Christmas Instead.” Subscribe to their newsletter.It started as a rumor. But…
The U.S. Navy launched a one-way attack drone this week from a littoral combat ship, marking the first time a suicide drone was deployed from a U.S. vessel at sea. A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System drone, known as a LUCAS drone, was launched from the flight deck of the…
An executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump would reclassify marijuana as a controlled substance with potential medical use — a designation that will make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct research on cannabis’s effectiveness for pain management, mental health conditions and other symptoms. However,…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream. It is hard to believe that 2025 is almost done. This year has flown by, and it has been absolutely packed with historic events. Unfortunately, I fully expect 2026 to be even more chaotic. We…
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Top Air Force leaders announced this week that airmen will only be required to undergo a standards and readiness review once a year, backtracking on a move earlier this year to hold those reviews quarterly.Acting Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Scott Pleus said in a Wednesday memo, which was posted on the unofficial Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco and confirmed as genuine by the Air Force, that unit commanders will start holding annual reviews beginning in 2026. The unit commander will have the discretion to choose what uniform airmen will wear during the reviews, Pleus’ memo said. Unit commanders…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Donald Trump, who made scant mention of foreign policy issues and did not speak about China or Taiwan at all. U.S.-Chinese tensions have ebbed and flowed during Trump’s second term, largely over trade and tariffs but also over China’s increasing aggressiveness toward Taiwan, which Beijing has said must reunify with the…
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The Defense Department said this week it is accelerating its investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired Navy pilot, for allegedly violating military law after he took part in a video with five other Democratic members of Congress urging service members to refuse illegal orders. The six released the video on social media on Nov. 18, amid ongoing U.S. military strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.The Pentagon said the preliminary review of Kelly had been escalated to “an official command investigation” for “serious allegations of misconduct,” according to an emailed Defense Department statement.The…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an overhaul of the military’s Chaplain Corps in a Tuesday video message, saying he intends to “make the Chaplain Corps great again,” by restoring its focus on religious ministry. “In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers,” he said in the video, since posted on social media.Hegseth railed against what he described as “new age notions” in the Army Spiritual Fitness Guide, saying, “it mentions God one time — that’s it. It mentions feelings eleven times. It even mentions playfulness — whatever…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Colorado officials on Tuesday were proud to announce the completion of the I-25 Greenland wildlife overpass in Douglas County. Spanning six lanes of busy interstate, the bridge structure is 209 feet long by 200 feet wide, with a surface area of nearly an acre, making it the largest wildlife crossing ever built in North America and one of the largest in the world. After nine years of planning and construction, crews put the finishing touches on the structure earlier this month…
The few and the proud just got a bit more debonaire.For the first time since its authorization for wear in the 1800s, both male and female Marines whose rank or officer status qualifies them can wear one of the Corps’ rarest and most pricey dress accessories: the boat cloak. That’s according to a Marine Administrative message published this month. According to the message, female officers and staff noncommissioned officers are now authorized to wear “either the boatcloak or the cape” with the evening and dress and blue dress Alpha and Bravo uniforms. This decision, along with a raft of other…
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware — President Donald Trump solemnly saluted as the flag-draped cases of three Americans — two Iowa National Guardsmen and one civilian — were carried across the tarmac Wednesday at Dover Air Force Base, days after the president vowed revenge for their killing in Syria.A gray C-17 transport plane landed on U.S. soil with the remains of Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines. The body of Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter who was also killed in the attack, followed. An…
This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute. Ten years ago, as the world’s governments met in Paris and agreed to eventually force policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions on their respective populations, combating climate change was seen as a major political issue. Then, when Trump and other populist right-wingers began finding political success, climate arguably became the primary issue that helped unify the establishment centrists, moderate left-liberals, and far-left progressives who made up the broad anti-Trump, anti-populist coalition. Fanatical climate alarmism became a way to demonstrate one’s anti-Trump credibility and a way for Trump’s opponents in media, academia, and…
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a massive reorganization of its health care management system, reducing the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realigning policy offices to promote consistency. In the largest planned overhaul of the Veterans Health Administration framework since 1995, the department will slash the number of Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs, from 18 to five and require them to report directly to the VA under secretary for health. The plan calls for eliminating the VHA chief operating officer and placing VHA Central Office staff under the under secretary, the deputy under secretary…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. As many Outdoor Life readers and followers might have heard by now, our staff writer Tyler Freel was severely injured during a backcountry hunt in Idaho earlier this fall. Freel was on a mule deer hunt with some industry partners along with OL’s Shooting Editor John B. Snow in October. The crew was having a great hunt, with Freel taking an old mule deer buck and Snow shooting a big bull elk. But on the horse ride back to the trailhead,…
A Pentagon watchdog found that the Army and Navy failed to accurately calculate the number of recruits who scored low on military aptitude tests, a practice that risked circumventing legal limits and rules meant to govern enlistment quality. The Army and Navy counted scores earned after enlistees attended their respective preparatory programs, the Future Soldier Preparatory Course and Future Sailor Preparatory Course, instead of the marks recruits received when they first signed up, a Dec. 11 report by the Department of Defense Inspector General said. The report specifically discusses Category IV enlistments, which are recruits scoring in the 10th to…
United States President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. This move has been condemned by Caracas as “warmongering threats.” The Trump administration is desperately trying to tie the drug trafficking to the current Venezuelan regime, as it looks for an excuse to remove Nicolas Maduro from power. WAR ALERT: Trump Administration Considers “Murder Mission” And Seizure Of Venezuela Oil Fields The US has also recently conducted several deadly strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling boats, and has significantly built up its naval presence nearby. The U.S. Strikes 3 MORE…
The Senate on Wednesday passed a major policy bill that authorizes the Defense Department to spend $900.6 billion in fiscal 2026.The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House passed Dec. 10, will now head to President Donald Trump, who has pledged to sign it. The Senate overwhelmingly passed the bill 77-20.The bill was praised by the top two senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and ranking Democrat Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who said it makes critical investments to strengthen the U.S. military.“The bill sets us on a path to modernize our defense capabilities…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The OL editors are all serious hunters that persue everything from ducks to moose throughout the country. We spend all year testing the latest hunting gear at our head-to-head tests and in the field. Below you’ll find our 29 top picks for apparel, trail cameras, boots, knives, packs, and more. These selections are from our larger Field Tested program, which highlights the best guns and gear from 2025. Hunting Accessories Turkey Hunting Apparel and Footwear The Real Grit is our retail…
The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier docked in its homeport of Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington, on Tuesday for what is scheduled to be its final visit there.The world’s oldest aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1975 with a service lifespan of 50 years, is set to return to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, in 2026 and be decommissioned. The Nimitz returned from a nine-month deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 5th and 7th Fleets that began March 21 when it set sail from Kitsap.“We have traveled more than two-thirds of this planet during this nine-month deployment, and I cannot overstate the positive impact…
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