Aviation officials say, however, that they hope to reach that target without forcing many troops out of the service.Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, commander of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker, Alabama, told reporters at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting on Wednesday that talent panels launched this month are intended to keep decision-making power with the soldiers and would not immediately lead to involuntary transfers or reductions.“We went out to the formations and asked commanders to counsel every single soldier that was in the targeted population [where] we are over strength, and talk to…

Red dots are popping up everywhere these days. They are the future of sighting options on concealed carry handguns and continue to creep into every crevice of handguns. This includes revolvers. Taurus and Charter Arms have optics options. Those all require you to purchase certain revolvers, but the new Shield R.O.C., or Revolver Optic Conversion, is bringing red dot compatibility to your favorite revolver. The R.O.C. brings red dots to revolvers. As long as that revolver is a S&W J-Frame. Yep, J-frames, which brings optics to micro-sized revolvers. This includes classics such as the 442/642, the 43C, and others. I…

SAN DIEGO — Parents of a U.S. Marine were detained by federal immigration officials and one of them was later deported after visiting family members at a California military base, a case that has drawn attention to how the government’s immigration crackdown is touching military families.Steve Rios, a Marine from Oceanside, California, told NBC 7 San Diego that his parents, Esteban Rios and Luisa Rodriguez, were taken into custody late last month while picking up his pregnant sister, Ashley Rios, and her husband, who is also a Marine, at Camp Pendleton.The couple, who came to the United States from Mexico…

The defense secretary’s announcement that the United States would allow Qatar to build an air force facility in Idaho was “in the works for years” and mirrors accommodations made for a handful of other allies in the country, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson told Military Times on Tuesday.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday during a meeting at the Pentagon with his Qatari counterpart, Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, that Mountain Home Air Force Base “will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training [and] increase the lethality, interoperability.” After criticism from prominent figures in the GOP’s…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The fish might’ve cost him one his best bass rods, but Charlie Conway says the spotted gar he caught in Lake Texoma on Oct. 10 was worth the trade. Conway’s 10-plus-pound gar was certified as a new Oklahoma record Tuesday, beating out the previous record by more than three pounds, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Conway lives in Kingston not far from Texoma, a large reservoir on the Red River that spans the Texas-Oklahoma border. He grew up fishing the lake and says…

Ukrainian ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, has stripped prominent political opponents of their citizenship. These public figures include Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, the renowned ballet dancer Sergei Polunin, and former MP Oleg Tsarev, UNIAN news agency has reported. All of them had criticized Kiev’s policies in the past. Zelensky confirmed that he has signed a decree stripping “certain individuals” of their Ukrainian citizenship on Telegram on Tuesday, accusing them of holding Russian passports. According to media reports, such as that by RT, Polunin, Trykhanov, and Tsarev were on the list. Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov has been known for his consistent opposition to Ukraine’s…

In a major win for privacy and gun rights advocates, a U.S. District Court has vacated an order that would have forced the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) to hand over its membership list to the federal government. The reversal came after SAF, its partner organizations, and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion to amend the judgment late last week. The Case: Reese v. ATF The case in question, Reese v. ATF, challenges the federal law barring licensed firearm dealers from selling or transferring handguns to adults under 21. Initially, the court limited relief to individuals who were members…

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll encouraged soldiers and families to help the Army get “human stupidity” out of the way to improve life on installations. “We and you and soldiers and families can fix almost everything,” Driscoll said Tuesday during a forum on military families at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army.“We just have to get human stupidity out of the way. You will be the ones to help us do that. You will be the ones on your bases and your communities pushing every single day to improve the foxhole. And we will try…

Amid a push to put more small drones in the hands of soldiers across the force, the U.S. Army is learning that there’s a ceiling to the number of unmanned systems that units can handle. Col. Dave Lamborn, commander of 2nd Mobile Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, out of Hawaii, told a panel during the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington that in division testing, the Army’s smallest units could be overtasked by the challenge of operating drones on top of all their conventional duties.“I can tell you that there is certainly an upper level of useful number…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Good hearing protection isn’t only important at the range, even shots while hunting will cause cumulative hearing damage. It’s a lesson that many of us have learned the hard way and, especially if you’re using a muzzle brake, every shot has an impact. There are many great options for hearing protection, but most of them are not ideal for a hunting situation.…

Donald Trump has threatened that Hamas will be disarmed if it refuses to disarm itself. Trump made the remarks on Tuesday while hosting Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House. On Monday, Hamas freed the last 20 living Israeli hostages held in Gaza, and Israel sent home nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees under a ceasefire deal brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye. As of right now, Israel is refusing to pull its troops from Gaza, while Hamas is refusing to disarm, both conditions of the peace deal. It doesn’t appear to matter to the ruler of the…

Soldiers with the 1st Cavalry Division have found ways to help armored vehicles pair sensors with drones to spot enemy drones before they strike.Col. Nicholas Dvonch, division artillery commander, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Trenton Huntsinger spoke with Army Times recently about the progress of the division’s experiment.The soldiers have taken passive sensors — the size of a baseball home plate — and mounted them on armored vehicles to detect enemy drones and pass that information back to their air defense element.That’s created an air picture 3.5 kilometers in front of them, giving the vehicles about a 45-second warning for…

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — The U.S. Army is racing to turn its aging organic industrial base into a modern drone factory network — and learning just how hard it is to move from prototypes to mass production. “We know how to manufacture things. There’s not a problem with that, but UAS, they are different,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, acting commander of Materiel Command, told Defense News in a recent interview. “We can do the wiring harnesses. We could do some of the microelectronics, but either we don’t have the capability, such as the brushless motors, and we have to…

For decades, the defense trade media has been a trusted source of news and insight about Defense Department programs, budgets, and strategy. Ethical, accurate, and timely reporting makes that possible. The public, industry, and indeed the department itself benefit from granting credentialed defense reporters access to unclassified areas in the Pentagon and from the trust engendered by that access.The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months. Having restricted where unescorted media may go in the Pentagon—such that even visiting the public affairs offices of the military services now requires…

Assassinated Charlie Kirk has been posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been his 32nd birthday. Current ruling president, Donald Trump, handed the award to Kirk’s wife, Erika, giving his the highest civilian honor. Kirk was murdered on September 10th at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem. His death is an obvious psychological operation that weaves Christian Nationalism in with the death of free speech and is fomenting a divide much larger than even Barack Obama was capable of accomplishing. Breaking: IRS Admits To Specifically Targeting Tea Party Conservatives – Obama Was Going After…

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A Colorado-based gun-rights organizations is calling on President Donald Trump to fire U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for what the group’s leaders call her “relentless anti-gun actions.” The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) sent an email to members late last week alerting members that the organization is calling for Bondi’s firearm. “Those are not words that we take lightly—but Pam Bondi has given us no choice,” NAGR President Dudley Brown wrote in the action alert. “While we all had major concerns with the nomination of Pam Bondi as Attorney General, we hoped for the best and that she would…

Ali Gul Haidari was a platoon sergeant in one of the Afghan Army’s most elite commando units partnering with U.S. Army Special Forces troops for missions to retake district centers from the Taliban in north and eastern Afghanistan. Haidari and his Afghan teammates blended in with their U.S. counterparts “down to the ballcaps and Oakleys,” a still-serving Special Forces officer said. When the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021, Haidari was left behind, despite the target on his back as a known supporter of American troops. He was captured and tortured by the Taliban for 40 days within…

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The U.S. Army’s first unit to receive hypersonic weapons will get a battery’s worth of rounds by the end of the year, Maj. Gen. Frank Lozano, the service’s program executive officer for missiles and space, told Defense News in a recent interview.In 2021 the 1st Multidomain Task Force, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord received all equipment — except for the actual live rounds — for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon capability it calls Dark Eagle. The Washington state-based unit was supposed to get the missiles in fall 2023 but several aborted test…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The Brooks bull, an enormous Rocky Mountain elk tagged in Washington state in December, is officially the new nontypical archery world-record, the Pope and Young Club announced Tuesday. A joint panel of official scorers determined a final score of 478 ⅜ inches on Monday. As expected, this easily puts bowhunter Casey Brooks’ bull at the top of the Pope and Young record books. The previous archery world-record nontypical measured 449 4/8 inches, and was killed by Alberta farmer Shawn O’Shea in…

This article was originally published by Wanjiru Njoya at the Mises Institute.  A federal court in Virginia recently ruled that the name of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, who is regarded as a great hero by many Americans, violates the free speech rights of black students. As summarized by the judge, The complaint alleged that the name [Stonewall Jackson] created “an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students,” and accused the school board of violating the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Education Opportunities Act. The judge’s reasoning…

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