U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating an airstrike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran.“We’re investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know,” Vance told reporters during a White House press briefing.“If we do make mistakes, again, this is a big difference between us and Iran, when our military makes mistakes, they learn from them to try to get better from them,” Vance added.Iranian officials say four people died and nearly 70 were wounded by a strike that hit a home during a wedding. Iranian state TV reported on…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. A newly proposed data center that would be built on public land near Boulder City, Nevada, just hit a roadblock. On Sept. 1 a judge placed a hold on the project’s permit with the justification that the initial permit issued in 2023 was meant for a solar power plant.  The stay, granted by administrative judge David Gunter, halts data center development by Townsite Solar 2, LLC. The company originally planned to build a solar power plant with battery storage on Bureau of Land Management ground…

A federal appeals court restored Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction on Tuesday, undoing a 2023 decision that wiped away the court-martial of the former U.S. Army soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan, kicking off an intensive search that wounded other troops.On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit ruled that the federal court that overturned Bergdahl’s military conviction did not have the jurisdiction to do so, arguing that only the military justice system could reverse Bergdahl’s judgment.“District courts lack jurisdiction on collateral review to vacate court-martial judgments,” Judge Robert Wilkins wrote on behalf of the panel.The former U.S. Army…

The U.S. Army awarded a $464.8 million production contract to AeroVironment, Inc., this week for the Enduring-High Energy Laser program (E-HEL), marking the first production contract for a directed energy system in the U.S. military’s history, the company stated in a release Wednesday.Rather than deploying missiles to shoot down unmanned aircraft, the E-HEL fires a laser beam at its targets and can reload its magazine through the system’s power supply, according to the Army.“This first-of-its-kind directed energy program will enable our formations to defeat unmanned systems and dominate from the outset,” Vice Chief of Staff of the Army General Christopher…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Serial poachers are the type of violators that game wardens spend a lot of time on. Dylan Wolff, a 28-year-old resident of Shawano County, Wisconsin, had earned a good amount of attention from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and now the details of that investigation are coming to light. After conservation warden Clark Delzer made the bust in a Shawano County cemetery on Jan. 8, Wolff was found to have hunted and fished illegally 174 times…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing the Army to explain why it is shuttering a specialized drone battalion less than a year after establishing it, a move that comes as conflicts across the world have become increasingly defined by unmanned aerial systems and electronic warfare.The 600-member “Unmanned Assault Battalion,” created as part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, was charged with learning tactics and skills from Ukraine’s more-than four-year fight against Russia and applying them to the U.S. military. In a letter, legislators expressed concern that eliminating the battalion was another sign of the Defense Department’s “uneven and inconsistent” support…

U.S. Army officials identified the soldier who died this week from injuries sustained during an accident at an on-post motor pool at Fort Knox, Kentucky.Staff Sgt. Deonte Lamar Davis, assigned to the 19th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade, XVII Airborne Corps, died on Tuesday at Fort Knox, Kentucky, according to a Wednesday statement.“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Staff Sgt. Davis,” Col. Jeff Burges, commander of the 20th Engineer Brigade, said in the release. “He was an outstanding Soldier and leader, and will be deeply missed by all his family, friends and fellow soldiers across the formation.”Davis…

The Pentagon is temporarily rescinding recently published clinical guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone-deficiency screening policy for service members aged 30 and older, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday. On Wednesday, the Pentagon posted the “Clinical Guidance for Health and Human Performance Optimization” on its website. By Thursday, the memo and an accompanying statement from spokesperson Sean Parnell had been removed. “The draft (document) published on September 2, 2026, has been temporarily rescinded to allow for updates,” the official said, adding that interim guidance remains in effect. The detailed clinical guidelines had laid out separate testosterone deficiency screening paths…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. You never forget the really bad things that happen to you — it’s like they’re branded in your mind. Two years after his friend was almost ripped apart by a crazed sow grizzly, Alaskan hunter Gary Corle can still shut his eyes and hear Johnny McCoy’s agonized screams and the crunch of breaking bones. Time has healed the horrendous wounds in McCoy’s head and arms. The casts that immobilized his broken and crushed bones are long gone, too. But that terrible morning is still just…

The U.S. Marine Corps announced that it is currently evaluating the newest entry into the long lineage of its combat utility uniforms.The newest iteration was designed with feedback from service members to provide lightweight material and an updated fit for future field training and military operations.“Equipment must evolve continuously to outpace near-peer technological advancements and deliver peak capabilities to the Fleet Marine Force,” said Todd Towles, clothing and equipment team lead.The next-generation combat utility uniform also incorporates a crotch gusset to increase comfort and durability, as well as more sizing options for a wider variety of body types.The Marine Corps…

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The Defense Health Agency has explicitly established a hormone-screening pathway for female service members, directing providers to screen women annually for hormonal dysregulation and establishing clinical pathways for problems ranging from menstrual irregularities and fatigue to perimenopause and menopause. The Sept. 2 guidance, signed by DHA Director Vice Adm. Darin Via, establishes clinical pathways for female hormonal optimization and lays out when a woman should receive additional evaluation, what conditions providers should consider and when treatment or referral is warranted. A female Marine interviewed by Military Times said low testosterone can occur in women but can be harder to identify…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. If you want to learn how to prevent altitude sickness, you need to understand how it can occur. And few people are as familiar with how it can ruin a hunt as Cody Arnold, who worked as a hunting guide near Granby, Colorado, for two decades. He has watched multiple clients struggle with the myriad symptoms that can occur when you ascend to 8,000 feet of elevation too fast. Extreme altitude sickness symptoms, also known as “acute mountain sickness” or AMS, can turn serious quickly.…

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The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to acquire high-resolution 3D scanners to detect cracked body armor.The goal is to develop sensors that can “scan individual hard armor plates for cracks and delaminations,” according to a Marine Corps Request For Information, which is due Oct. 2. More specifically, the devices will inspect Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts and United States Marine Corps Lightweight Plates.The Enhanced Armor Inspection System will use computed tomography, or CT, scanners. CT scanning, commonly used for tasks such as medical imaging and airport bomb detection, creates 3D images that are more detailed than traditional 2D X-ray images.The…

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The U.S. Navy has experienced some considerable setbacks in recent months, from a power failure on a destroyer in the South China Sea to morale issues aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. Still, the service has been buoyed by a nationwide recognition that shipbuilding has too long been neglected and the current administration seems to have a variety of innovative maritime strategy concepts, encompassing a new vision for the fleet.Among these ideas, none have been more controversial than the proposed Trump-class battleship.Proponents argue that this new capital ship would bring concentrated fighting power with new high-tech weapons and large magazines…

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