Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The improved clinch knot, sometimes called the fisherman’s knot, is what I’d call a necessary oddball. It’s remarkably easy to tie and comes in handy for a variety of applications. It can essentially be used to attach anything with an eye—from a crankbait to a streamer fly to a barrel swivel—to your line or leader. Even with cold, wet fingers, you can tie an improved clinch in seconds, but I call it odd because the amount of trust anglers put in it varies widely.  The origins…

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The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine strain U.S. weapons stockpiles.The U.S. has supplied large quantities of ‌weapons to allies while also using munitions in its own military operations in Iran, raising concerns about inventories of key air defense and precision-guided weapons.The Lockheed award converts a previous one-year deal worth $4.7 billion awarded in April into a seven-year draft agreement, creating a multiyear procurement plan for the interceptors from fiscal 2026 through 2032, the Army said.Pentagon negotiators ​are…

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton and local forces seized an estimated 2,380 pounds of suspected marijuana worth approximately $2.8 million Saturday near Great Inagua, Bahamas.The Charles Sexton crew and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force boarded a suspected drug-smuggling vessel about 80 miles southwest of Great Inagua, where they discovered 97 bales of suspected marijuana. The three people aboard the vessel were transferred to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force for prosecution along with the narcotics.“This interdiction highlights the strength of our partnership and our shared commitment to combating transnational organized crime in the region,” Lt. Peter…

This article was originally published by Mark Thornton at The Mises Institute.  I’m not predicting WWIII; I am certainly not calling for WWIII; I’m doing everything in my power to prevent WWIII and illuminate the causes, risks, and general results of future war. We are in a quasi-war with Russia, with Europe planning to fight. We are at war in the Middle East with no end in sight. We have stolen China’s oil source in Venezuela and threatened Denmark with our might. The last decade has seen the entire globe turn from firm allies and admirers of America to disgruntled…

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Ukraine’s F-16 fighters have become a crucial defense against Russian drones, but repeated interceptions are wearing out the country’s small fleet.Ukrainian F-16s have destroyed more than 2,500 Geran and Gerbera one-way attack drones, wrote airpower expert Justin Bronk in an analysis of the Ukraine air war for the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.“[The] use of fighters against such drones has consumed an unsustainable number of airframe flying hours and air-to-air missiles … since mid-2024, when the Ukrainian Air Force received its first Western aircraft and trained crews,” the analysis reads.“Russian industry produces more than 6,000 [one-way attack]…

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMost of us have done it. You walk out of the store, reach your car, and realize you don’t remember walking across the parking lot—you zoned out. Or you drive a route you’ve taken a thousand times and can’t recall the last three miles. Your eyes were open the whole time. You just weren’t really there. That gap—eyes open, nobody home—is where trouble gets its head start. Most people move through their day on autopilot. They see, but don’t look. They hear, but don’t listen. Something has to be undeniably wrong before they register…

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The U.S. Marine Corps is offering early separation to enlisted Marines in two dozen military occupational specialties as part of a force-shaping effort tied to budget constraints.According to the July 1 policy message, the service announced the Voluntary Enlisted Early Release Program as “a deliberate force-shaping initiative” that allows eligible Marines to apply for separation before the end of the fiscal year.Yvonne Carlock, a spokeswoman for the service’s Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told USNI News that the program was “designed to balance the Marine Corps’ end strength and ensure long-term fiscal health and operational readiness.”The program allows certain enlisted Marines…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics On June 2, six anglers chartered Captain Joey Maciasz’s 44-foot catamaran “Timbuktu” for a 36-hour long-range bottom fishing trip out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. They hoped to catch some fish, but had no idea they would go on to potentially break multiple state records. Port Fourchon is well-known as one of the Gulf of America’s premier fishing jump-off spots. It’s the southernmost port in Louisiana and is in the heart of the state’s offshore oil and gas drilling business. Thus, the waters off Port Fourchon are…

A staple of the skies during the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey began its final chapter in service on Tuesday with the delivery of the last model.With the acceptance of the 359th — and final — tiltrotor aircraft, the Marine Corps marked the end of the MV-22B Osprey program of record, a milestone that will now shift efforts towards “sustaining and modernizing the fleet for decades to come,” the V-22 Joint Program Office, which manages the Osprey program, said in a statement. “The MV-22B … fundamentally changed the way the Marine Air-Ground Task Force…

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