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The U.S. Navy announced on Thursday that the service reached its fiscal 2026 goal of contracting 45,000 future sailors to man the fleet, continuing a trend over the past several years of successfully meeting its enlistment needs.The service reached its goal three months early, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,…
The U.S. Navy’s appetite for next-generation anti-radar missiles is growing. A Naval Air Systems Command Request For Information posted on July 1 is asking industry whether it is capable of supplying up to 600 Advanced Emission Suppression Missiles per year. In February — before the Iran War and the consequent…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. A massive $450 million, 93-acre facility carved out of western North Dakota’s badlands opens Saturday as a monument to America’s 26th president but also as a lens through which to consider…
Vietnam War veterans are pushing back against the use of an “Honor and Remember” flag because of its resemblance to the Bolshevik Communist flag and the flag flown by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.Vietnam Veterans of America, a national veterans service organization, argued Thursday that the flag “cannot serve as…
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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics From the Fourth of July to Labor Day the lakes around my home in southwestern Michigan are overrun with boats of every description. Water skiers, swimmers, and sailors are out in full force. Most fishermen confine their angling to early morning and late evening, and the pike fishermen of early spring have given up in disgust. Where am I in July and August? I’m trolling near the myriad of boats and catching more pike than I do during the 10 other months combined. I’m also catching…
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We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › We all know PSA has great deals on wide variety of products for freedom loving people. But, some of their best deals are on optics. Right the have the best price I’ve seen on an Eotech EXPS 3-0, $150 off a Holosun 407 Reflex Sight 3MOA Shake Awake, $1,000 off an AGM Rattler TS35-640 Thermal Rifle Scope 2-16x35mm Refurbished, and $320 off a Vortex Strike Eagle 1-6×24 GEN2 Riflescope w/ AR-BDC3 Reticle. Red Dots Save $180 on a Vortex SPARC AR…
Editor’s note: This is a developing story.A U.S. Navy aircrewman is missing after a helicopter carrying four crew members made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, the Navy said.The MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush, had an emergency water landing at 3:30 a.m. EDT. While the cause of the emergency landing wasn’t immediately clear, the Navy said it did not appear to be the result of any hostile activity.“Three of the helicopter’s four crew members have been recovered and are in stable condition aboard George H. W. Bush,” the Navy said. “U.S.…
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Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here.The U.S. military is closing in on its high-energy laser weapon of choice for counter-drone missions. Now it needs the vehicles to support it.With the demise of its Stryker-based Directed Energy-Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (DE-MSHORAD) program, the U.S. Army has focused its ground-based laser weapon efforts on light tactical vehicles. AeroVironment’s 20 kW LOCUST Laser Weapon System has already been operationally tested aboard both the Infantry Squad Vehicle and the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle through the Army Multi-Purpose…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Sitting in a raft afloat the Eagle River, Roger Hill peers intently through his glasses as he struggles to tie on a fly. Now 84, he has wiry white hair and a calm voice buoyed by wry humor. He sits with his shoulders hunched, his blue eyes laser focused on the hook eye. The combined effects of glaucoma and essential tremors make it hard for him to thread a line through it. I want to lend a hand but don’t. For…
A single case of Marburg virus is threatening to derail the current efforts to control the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The bulk of Ebola is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo; however, with the introduction of another hemorrhagic disease, complications are compounding. Current Ebola Outbreak Could Become The Largest on Record On Tuesday, Uganda formally reported to the World Health Organization that it had detected a single Marburg case as a disease outbreak in the western part of the country. A spokesperson for the Geneva-based global health agency told STAT News of the outbreak. This development could further complicate…
The U.S. Army is moving ahead to meet the Defense Department’s direction to cut the number of military moves. Army officials announced they’re cutting more than 12,000 relocations in fiscal 2026 and more than 13,600 in fiscal 2027, in an effort to provide more stability to soldiers and their families. The Navy and the Marine Corps haven’t established specific numbers of military moves targeted for reduction in 2026 or 2027, service officials told Military Times. Both noted that their reviews are ongoing, and key milestones are tied to implementation in 2027. The Air Force did not respond to questions about…
The Department of Veterans Affairs currently has 367 documented artificial intelligence use cases supporting everything from medical appointments and disability claims to customer service and records management. However, veterans seeking medical care or VA benefits may encounter artificial intelligence without realizing it.The VA’s recently released 2025 AI Inventory identifies 215 of those use cases as high-impact systems. Although VA officials say safeguards and human oversight remain in place, veteran advocates say veterans are more likely to trust AI systems if they understand when they are being used and what role they play.For Navy veteran Markus Williams, the issue surfaced during…
Iran has emerged stronger after the United States and Israel started a war on February 28th of this year. Now that the conflict appears to be winding down, the US has taken a beating while Iran is visibly the winner in all ways that matter. The US didn’t achieve a single stated military goal of the war. Sure, the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, but it was open before the joint US-Israel attack that kicked off the fighting. None Of The Most Important Issues Have Been Resolved By The Memorandum Of Understanding Iran is already aware of this fact, too.…
As military moving season shifts into high gear, service members and their families should be seeing the results of changes aimed at improving their household goods moves.And for those experiencing issues, there’s a direct line to DoD’s new Personal Property Activity, where service members can ask for assistance. Since that call center was set up in August of last year, the volume has reached 20,121 calls and emails, said Army Maj. Matthew Visser, spokesman for the Personal Property Activity. That includes calls received into the center, as well as calls made from the center. “We often see issues arising, and…
Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Spring rains, snow melt, a good summer tropical system; nature uses several methods of filling lakes and rivers, but such inflows always bring some level of mud. Whether it’s a river system where the main artery scours the landscape and sends loads of sediment though its reservoir, or simply those hillside drains that funnel muddy water into the backs of pockets. So instead of staying home when the water gets murky, you should learn how to fish it. How Water Clarity Impacts Fishing Muddy water decreases…
KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian drone unit has posted a video reportedly showing American-made Merops interceptors running down an Iranian-designed Shahed drone, fresh proof the cheap weapon works as the U.S. Army moves to build a version it can field at scale.Ukraine’s 427th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment, known as Rarog, posted the unverified night-vision clip to its Telegram channel last month showing an interceptor closing on a one-way attack drone and a flash at the moment of contact. The unit flies Ukrainian-built interceptors alongside foreign systems, and did not specify which it used.Foreign Policy Research Institute senior fellow Rob Lee…
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The Marine Corps launched a new mobile app that gives Marines a simplified guide for uniform and grooming standards, according to Tuesday’s administrative message. Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy, commanding general of the service’s education command, described the Marine Corps Uniform App as giving “immediate access to the guidance they use most often.”“It is designed to make existing standards more accessible while reinforcing the professionalism and attention to detail that define our Corps,” he said.Grooming standards, there’s an app for that. (Marine Corps Uniform App)Although the service’s uniform regulations are available online, the 263-page document written in Courier typeface isn’t exactly…
Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. This story, “Remembering Cactus Jack,” originally appeared in the July 1980 issue. For a week we had been hunting chukars above the Snake River in eastern Washington, my son Chris and I, laboring along those god-awful lava slopes each day and getting back to camp late, bone-tired and rock-sore. We were set up just across the river from Lewiston, Idaho, where Jack O’Connor lived. I’d meant to call him and let him know we were around. But as the week wore on and we wore with…
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has warned that artificial intelligence-powered digital nuclear weapons could increase rivalries between already warring nations. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said that “AI tools will only continue to raise the stakes in our competition with all of America’s adversaries.” The United States’ Hypocrisy On Nuclear Weapons It would be “not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons,” he added, citing discussions within the administration of United States President Donald Trump. Ratcliffe further claimed that rival nations “work to steal and to manipulate America’s advancements for their own ends and gains.” Promises of…
For weeks, Army Ranger School students put their bodies through a physical ringer, carrying heavy loads and marching far distances with little to eat and sparing sleep. But when Army researchers measured the course’s grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts.Researchers tracked hormone levels, blood markers and body composition over the weeks-long school and the findings, published this month in the Journal of Applied Physiology, are among the first to compare how male and female soldiers respond to the Army’s premier leadership course. The new information comes over a decade after the…
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › 250 years ago a group of men assembled to write a document that declared freedom is sacred. We hold those truths to be self evident today and one of my favorite forms of freedom is owning cool guns. If you agree, here are some deals from an assortment of retailers that will save you money on your next firearm. Codes Save 12% on almost anything at Brownells with code: FREEDOM12 Save 13% at Optics Planet with code: JULY4 Save an extra…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog: The Earthquakes Just Won’t Stop: The New Madrid Fault And The Cascadia Subduction Zone Both Get Shaken As The Warnings Continue How much shaking is it going to take before most of the population starts paying attention? The ground underneath our feet just keeps shaking. Nobody can deny this. As you will see below, there has been a long list of large earthquakes that have hit our planet over the past week, and this is something that I have been writing about a lot in recent days. What we…
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has turned its signature naval drone – the little boat that drove Russia’s fleet out of the western Black Sea – into a launch platform for first-person-view attack drones, putting Kyiv’s strike reach beyond the coast.The Sea Baby, a strike boat built and operated by Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, can now carry six to eight FPV drones in side compartments that open during an attack, alongside thermobaric Shmel rockets, according to Russian accounts of the boats operating around the Kinburn Spit, roughly 40 miles east of Odesa, shared by Forbes.Ukrainian officials count on the autonomous…
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