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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For a second year, cases of military heatstroke increased in 2025, according to new data published by the Defense Health Agency. That’s despite nearly a decade of intensive efforts to address and prevent heat injuries through awareness, training and deployment of body-worn devices that can flag symptoms of heat risk before they turn deadly.But that may not be a bad thing, according to an epidemiologist who coauthored the latest report. The survey data, published in June in the Pentagon’s Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, shows that heatstroke cases are up from 471 to 518 from 2024 to 2025. It’s a significant…

The funeral of Lindsey Graham, an infamous war-mongering senator, was full of more “gifts” and a celebration of war. In fact, Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine’s ruler, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s ruler, led a procession at United States Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral service. Zelensky described Graham as a “true friend” of the war-loving Ukraine. As for Netanyahu, Graham was also a close friend and ally, having a habit of cozing up to countries hell-bent on being in a constant state of war. In fact, Graham bragged earlier this year about “coaching [Netanyahu] on how to lobby [Trump] for action” against Iran. In additional…

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The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones. Any crackdown on mobile communications would add a new dimension to the conflict for the thousands of U.S. troops in the region, many of whom still rely on phones to periodically message loved ones and assure them they are well.Adm. Brad Cooper, in a previously unreported letter, said Iran was benefiting from being able to see the success or failure of its strikes…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics I wish I could say that I’m about to clue you in to a culinary treat that me and my family have been enjoying for years, but that’s simply not the case. I ate my first fried fish tail just a week before penning this column. For some of you, nibbling on crispy, crunchy fins is old news, but despite that fact that I’ve been eating fish my entire life, all the fins went in the trash can prior to a recent nudge from a guest…

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The U.S. Army has pitted three manufacturers against each other to build competing prototypes of its future infantry squad vehicle.The service on June 30 awarded firm-fixed-price Other Transaction Agreements to Ford, GM Defense and BC Customs, the Army confirmed Tuesday. Each company will deliver three Infantry Squad Vehicle-Heavy, or ISV-H, models, with the first expected by March 30, 2027. The six-seat platforms will then be tested with the Army Test and Evaluation Command.The Wall Street Journal first reported the awards on Monday. Military Times requested the dollar amounts of the contracts, but the Army did not specify the cost.In a…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream under the title: On August 12th We Will Witness A Total Solar Eclipse, A Rare Parade Of 6 Planets, And The Peak Of The Perseid Meteor Shower It is not often that we get to experience three major celestial events on the exact same day. On August 12th, a rare parade of 6 planets will be visible before sunrise. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune will all be lined up across the morning sky. The only planet that we will not get to see…