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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Fishing is supposed to be fun. That’s something I often have to remind myself of when I get too far down the tournament bass fishing rabbit hole and things aren’t going my way. It can be easy to just keep throwing the same old reliable baits, hoping for a bite on the same old reliable rod and reel. Sometimes, though, that’s a grind. When I find myself in this cycle, I break out of it by grabbing my bait finesse system, or BFS, gear. Now, at…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The U.S. Forest Service has drafted a forest management plan for some 4.9 million acres of public land in Oregon and Washington that doesn’t address motorized vehicle access. Conservation groups and state agencies say this lack of off-highway vehicle and road regulation in the Blue Mountains will continue to force elk off public forests and onto private ground.  By omitting motorized vehicle access from the 356-page draft Environmental Impact Statement and skipping any supplementary travel management plans, USFS appears to be taking sides in an…

Senate Democrats are pressing the Pentagon for answers about medical care provided to service members wounded in the March 1 drone strike at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, saying the Defense Department has yet to fully answer an earlier congressional inquiry or provide the results of the Army’s investigation into the attack.In a July 29 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., joined by four other Senate Democrats and eight House Democrats, requested answers by Aug. 12 to 23 questions concerning medical care, casualty reporting, force protection and ongoing investigations related to the attack.Lawmakers say the Pentagon has not…

The nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Minnesota returned to Naval Base Guam on July 29, completing its first deployment as the Navy’s first forward-deployed Virginia-class boat.The successful deployment amplified the Navy’s ability to operate and employ advanced capabilities in the Indo-Pacific, a service release noted. The boat is one of four forward-deployed fast-attack submarines. The service’s Virginia-class submarines combine stealth, nuclear endurance and flexibility for both shallow and deep ocean missions. “Operating from Guam, this crew demonstrated the readiness, endurance and advanced capabilities the Virginia-class platform brings to … the Western Pacific,” Capt. Christopher Carter, commander of Submarine Squadron 15,…

The father of a sailor is out to warn others in the military community about a “Good Samaritan” scam that cost his son thousands of dollars.On July 2, two men approached the young sailor, claiming they had lost their wallets and needed help paying for a hotel room. “The men gained possession of his phone under the pretense of entering reimbursement information electronically,” the father wrote in an email to Military Times. “Shortly afterward, he discovered an unauthorized transfer from his Navy Federal Credit Union account.”Young service members are increasingly targeted by financial scammers who, in recent years, have employed…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. If you end up stranded with just a knife, it might as well be a good one. That’s the thought process for owning and carrying a survival knife. They’re specialized tools for the worst day, week, or, hopefully not, month of your life. The problem is that a lot of survival knives couldn’t survive a week of Boy Scout camp, let alone anything the wilderness can throw at you. The Fallkniven S1 is the exception. It has stood the test of time and remains a…

Just one in three Americans support the war on Iran, the lowest reading in a Reuters/Ipsos poll since the five-month-old conflict’s early days, with most respondents saying that President Donald Trump has failed to explain his goals.The poll, conducted Friday through Sunday, also showed the Republican president’s approval rating ticking higher to 37%, up 3 points from last month when his rating tied the lowest of his presidency.Trump has offered shifting objectives for the conflict such as aiding Iranians to topple their leaders, taking out Iran’s ballistic-missile capabilities and preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The poll found that…

Most of the U.S. Air Force’s efforts to modernize its B-52s are experiencing significant challenges, a government watchdog said in a Friday report.As the service projects to spend $21 billion in modernizations for 76 active long-range strategic bombers, the Government Accountability Office argues that advancing such efforts, such as new engines, with “little to no” developmental flight testing will increase the risk that the system will not function as desired.The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service since 1955 and was originally given a life expectancy of 20 years. The Air Force now expects to utilize the aircraft, which can…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics This story, “Big-Game Fishing’s Greatest Catch,” appeared in the April 1984 issue of Outdoor Life. Maxwell’s 1964 tiger shark remains tied for the all-tackle world-record (with a shark caught off the coast of Ulladulla, Australia in March 2004). All but two line-class records for tiger sharks — including Maxwell’s fish and another caught in Florida — are out of Australia. THE TIGER SHARK was four times heavier than the muscular stonemason who was bracing his 190-pound, six-foot body against the shark’s first run. His 16/0 big-game…

The U.S. Navy is rolling out retention bonuses for select active-duty aviation billets in an effort to retain skilled personnel in certain mission-critical roles, the service announced. “The AC Aviation Command Retention Bonus (ACRB) program incentivizes highly talented, hardworking Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers (NFO) screened for aviation command to choose to remain on Active Duty,” a NavAdmin released Friday states. “Our return on investment is the retention for continued Naval Service of our aviation warfighters, with their invaluable, irreplaceable skillsets and leadership.”Bonuses start at $37,000 and cap at $150,000, according to the memo. Applicants “must have screened during…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. A newcomer to Alaska, especially if he is a sportsman, gets an awful lot of kidding from the old-timers. No matter if he’s hunted and fished a lifetime in the States, he’s still a cheechako, or greenhorn, to the sourdoughs. So I thought it was just another rib when Ed asked me if I had a deer call. We were making last-minute preparations for a deer-hunting trip—my first try for the little Sitka black-tail which inhabits the…

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Marine Forces Special Operations Command is partnering with SOFWERX, the public-private technology hub for companies wanting to work with military special operations, to modernize armory recordkeeping. SOFWERX, in collaboration the Marine Forces Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, is hosting an event in mid-September to develop ways to replace manual steps for documenting serialized inventory with digital and automated tools. The July 27 announcement said the event’s purpose is “to design a secure, zero-signature automated armory that relies exclusively on optical recognition and computer vision.” But here’s the catch: the tools cannot use RFID — the most common technology for tracking…

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defense capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.The previously unreported findings offer a rare glimpse into how military and security-linked institutions in China are leveraging cutting-edge U.S. AI models as a shortcut to developing specialised systems of their own, despite Washington’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s access to advanced chips and other strategic technologies.The documents show widespread use of a technique known as “model distillation,” in which outputs…

This article was originally published by Conner McEleney at The Mises Institute.  Many progressives, such as Robert Reich and Kyle Kulinski, argue that the economy needs a universal basic income (UBI) to fix it. Their argument stems from the idea that UBI has no serious flaws, that many studies show success, and that it’s the moral thing to do. An example that these progressives would cite would be the Denver UBI experiment. The study had three groups of people. Group A had $1,000 per month, and Group B had $6,500 for the first month; the other months were $500. Group C had…

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