Soldiers of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command recently undertook two of the Army’s most challenging physical assessments by testing for the Expert Soldier Badge and Expert Field Medical Badge. From September into early October, soldiers underwent a series of intense physical challenges at Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany. “All the soldiers are showing high levels of proficiency. Everyone who trains and tests here leaves better prepared, and that directly builds combat-ready formations,” Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew A. Decola, noncommissioned officer in charge of the EFMB testing, said in a release.The tests saw soldiers undergo a series of demanding drills, conduct…

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Army medical and public affairs personnel on a recent week-long exchange with Angolan service members set out to bridge one rather significant gap capable of making or breaking operations between allied nations: language. Part of the exchange, which matched up troops from U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa, with personnel from the Angolan Military Health Division, sought to identify emerging, scalable tech capable of real-time language translation in what could one day be high-stress environments in which interpreters are not readily available.As select personnel in the exchange trained on an array of medical procedures, others, like 1st Lt. Tucker…

This article was originally published by Patrick Lewis at Natural News.  The U.S. is sending up to 200 troops already in the Middle East to Israel, tasked with overseeing and coordinating the Gaza ceasefire rather than engaging in combat. A Joint Control Center, led by the U.S. and staffed also by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the U.A.E., aims to lend neutrality—Turkish and Arab participation was reportedly a Hamas-brokered compromise. American forces will integrate and manage the multinational mission (e.g., movement, intelligence, liaison with Israel), but no U.S. troops will enter Gaza under current plans. Troop deployments toward Israel are underway;…

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Most people’s first foray into hunting is as much family bonding as it is harvesting an animal. Ask any hunter who taught them how to hunt, and the answer almost always comes back to a family member. Father, grandfather, mother, uncle, or older sibling.  But how do you get that first kill when there is no mentor to teach you? A primal skill that should be inherently ingrained in us simply isn’t. While my family has deep roots in the Canadian Northwest Territories and Alberta cattle ranches, my branch of the family tree managed to lose the hunting tradition. Growing…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Rifle Association and other gun groups are suing California over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns with features known as switches that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.The NRA was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and two NRA members in challenging the state’s ban.The lawsuit argues that California’s ban on Glock-style handguns violates the Second Amendment and defies U.S. Supreme Court precedent.”A law that bans the sale of—and correspondingly prevents citizens from acquiring—a weapon in common use violates the…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided to reverse course on the idea to privatize the process that moves service members’ household goods.Instead, he directed officials to improve the current program, which will remain in place for at least three years, according to an advisory sent Wednesday to the military services and personal property shipping offices, as well as companies previously approved to move troops and families under the “tender of service” program, the DOD’s legacy system for managing moves.During the next three years, officials will modernize the program into a “government-controlled software solution” and complete an ongoing market study by research…

Contracting document language is raising questions about possible other new features that might be included as the U.S. Army launches a five-site “campus-style” dining facility pilot program for possible expansion to installations across the service. Officials, including Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, addressed questions about the pilot program, announced at the end of September, at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting Monday.They didn’t rule out possible alcohol sales at some locations and would not address whether soldiers could be asked to add a tip to a government-provided meal. Weimer stressed that the dining pilot, designed…

The head of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) is calling upon Congress to get to work to pass a measure that would ensure concealed carry reciprocity on a national basis. In an Op-Ed posted at thehill.com, NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said the work President Donald Trump has done to curtail crime in Washington, D.C., has been very effective. And part of that effort was to streamline approval of concealed carry permits, which have tended to lag in the District. “Thankfully, part of the president’s initiative to make D.C. safe again is to ‘collaborate with appropriate…

The Army’s already-accelerated plan to field its next-generation M1E3 Abrams tank will hit a major milestone before the end of next year with its first soldier touchpoint, a General Dynamics executive revealed Wednesday.Speaking at a panel alongside Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Randy George at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Danny Deep, executive vice president for Global Operations at GD, said a “pre-prototype” of the M1E3 would be sent to the fighting forces so they could kick the tires.“We’re going to have it fielded in the next 12 months for soldiers…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Judge of Disappointment Mountain,” appeared in the July 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. THE CHILL REACHED into the shadows at Boot Lake Portage as the November sun slid down into the dark firs and aspens. My wife Lil flexed her stiffening hands, crushed out her cigarette on the hard sand, and shucked the cartridges out of her .30/30. “I hope Andy isn’t lost,” she said quietly as she shoved the shells into her jacket pocket. “It’s going to be…

This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute.  One year ago, as the 2024 election entered its final weeks, Donald Trump’s campaign focused its entire operation around one final objective: to drive home its “closing argument”—the one basic vision that the whole campaign had been built around. At a flurry of rallies from Madison Square Garden to the site of the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump repeated his fundamental promise: that, if elected, he and his administration would “help America heal.” That was evidently a powerful message to a population who had just lived through the political establishment’s…