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Trump administration officials conceded during a private briefing on Capitol Hill this week that Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is proving more disruptive on the battlefield than the Pentagon had anticipated, two people familiar with the matter told Military Times. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force, Joint Interagency Task Force 401, is set to test a high-energy laser system against drones at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico over the weekend.“By working hand-in-hand with the [Federal Aviation Administration] and our interagency partners, we are ensuring that these cutting-edge capabilities are…

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A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer died Thursday from injuries he suffered while responding to a distressed mariner aboard a large vessel offshore of Washington state.Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers was deployed to the vessel as part of a helicopter medical evaluation team, according to a U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers Friday Instagram post.Jaggers was posthumously granted one of the nation’s highest awards for aerial flight.“Our brother put his life on the line for someone he had never met, as Coast Guard aircrews and rescue swimmers have done thousands of times before, answering the call so that he and…

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Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. Folding saws have been around for quite a while, but they’ve recently become much more popular with all types of outdoorsmen. Hunters, bushcrafters, survivalists, campers, backpackers and gardeners are all carrying them now. This is because they are incredibly useful tools that can take on a wide variety of tasks without the bulk of a traditional saw, and without the common risks of an axe. Whether you’re brushing in a blind, breaking down big game, clearing a shooting lane, building a shelter, bucking firewood, clearing a…

President Donald Trump demoted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to fill the post, which is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration and dozens of other federal agencies. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Mullin will take over the department on March 31, although he must go through the Senate confirmation process. Noem will become a special envoy for a new security initiative called the “Shield of the Americas,” which Trump said will be unveiled Saturday. Mullin is a former mixed martial arts…

The U.S. military’s increased use of missile interceptors during the war with Iran poses long-term strategic risks to integral defense capabilities if fighting spills into a long term conflict, experts caution.Military Times spoke with several national security specialists, defense analysts and foreign policy pundits who warned that the U.S. military’s finite interceptor stockpile could be strained and potentially exhausted if the ever-changing projected timeline of Operation Epic Fury depletes a resource that cannot be replenished at the scale and pace of war.“You can’t replace those kinds of missiles overnight,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a…

The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude.The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately.”The decision appeared to shut down the opportunity for further negotiation with Anthropic, nearly a week after President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of endangering national security.Trump and Hegseth announced a series of…

Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Thursday that Iran’s navy has been decimated and its drone capabilities damaged, as the United States and Israel continues military strikes against Iran.Cooper spoke alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, providing updates regarding Operation Epic Fury, which began early Saturday morning.“We’re now up over 30 ships,” Cooper said of the number of Iranian navy vessels that the U.S. has sunk or destroyed. “And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Jim Franklin of Hemphill, Texas, was fishing alone on March 4 at the south end of Toledo Bend Reservoir. The famed lake on the Texas-Louisiana state line is well known for giant bass, and Franklin has fished it most of his life. “I’d been catching a lot of bass, some days up to 50 fish, but nothing over 5 pounds,” Franklin tells Outdoor Life of his last few trips to Toledo Bend. “I decided to change it up and fish another area I hadn’t tried this…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  A Global Food Catastrophe Has Been Ignited The United States and Israel have struck Iran, and the consequences are already cascading far beyond the Middle East. This is not merely another regional skirmish; it is the ignition of a global food catastrophe that will unfold with terrifying speed. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global energy and fertilizer shipments, is effectively closed. This single act has severed a massive portion of the world’s natural gas supply, the foundational feedstock for modern agriculture. If nothing changes, the price…

The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to war with Iran.While the tally in the House, 212-219, was expected to…

Democrats are condemning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he derided media coverage of the six American service members killed in the war with Iran, accusing the press of focusing on the fallen soldiers to make President Donald Trump “look bad.” “This is what the fake news misses,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, in which he also avowed that the United States was “winning decisively” in its battle against the Islamic Republic. “But when a few drones get through, or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news,” he said, adding, “I get it – the press only wants to make…

The war in the Middle East is quickly expanding. Israel was pounded with missiles by Iran overnight. The hopes of a “quick victory” are evaporating. Israel was hit hard overnight, according to a report by ZeroHedge. The United States Senate blocked an effort to curb President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. The vote, which was 53–47 against a procedural motion aimed at limiting the warring operation. At the same time, Iran is increasing its response to the “preemptive” strikes on the country over a failure to come to terms on its nuclear policy.  Tehran officials are saying that the war is…

The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected and tracked two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft operating within the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones on Wednesday.The command dispatched two U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, two F-22 Raptors, four KC-135 Stratotankers, one E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, two Canadian CF-18 Hornets and one CC-150 Polaris tanker to positively identify, monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft, according to a NORAD release.The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. “This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the heart of Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve.  That’s where they were on Jan. 13, as Carl drove the truck from Bear Island campground to another site. He was with his wife, Tasha, their 20-year-old son, Ryker, and 16-year-old daughter, Jazzlyn. Although they’d hunted snakes before, Ryker and Jazzyln had just…

The largest U.S. Department of Defense hospital abroad is pausing its labor and delivery services until further notice to focus on the needs of the conflict across the Middle East.The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, located near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, is temporarily referring some labor and delivery patients to other hospitals within the local community, hospital officials told Military Times on Thursday. The medical center sent a notice about the halt in those services to Landstuhl patients through a Tuesday memorandum that circulated on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page. “Our staff is in direct contact with impacted…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is pushing nationwide constitutional carry for firearms, a move that would eliminate concealed carry permits, fees and criminal penalties for people who want to carry a firearm in public.Lee’s National Constitutional Carry Act, first obtained by Fox News Digital, would eliminate several hurdles Americans face with concealed carry across the country.”The Founders established a national right to keep and bear arms, not to ask for permission from hostile local officials or risk imprisonment for crossing the wrong state line,” Lee said in a statement to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Tuxpan Tigre,” appeared in the July 1960 issue of Outdoor Life. I couldn’t blame my friends for thinking my jaguar hunt in Mexico was a reckless plan. They weren’t entirely wrong. The trip to Nayarit, Mexico, from my home at Sacramento, California. was to be made in a light plane that I’d pilot myself, and there are hazards in flying a light plane into a region that has only a few primitive landing strips. I planned to get my jaguar…

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin claimed that the recent Ukrainian attack on a liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker was an act of terrorism. According to the Transport Ministry in Moscow, the ship was targeted by a drone near Malta this week. Putin stated that “this is a terrorist attack” and added it’s not the first time that Russia has faced energy-related terrorism. Russia continues to call attacks on it terrorism, as the war appears to have no end in sight. Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Another Terrorist Attack The Russia-flagged Arctic Metagaz was targeted this week close to Malta’s territorial waters. According…

Master the Art of
Preparedness and Survival

Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews,
and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.