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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Two airmen at a Wyoming U.S. Air Force base have pleaded guilty to making false statements about the deadly shooting of a third that prompted the suspension of Sig Sauer M18 pistol use at nuclear weapons sites for a month, the Air Force said in a statement Friday.The gun pause by the Air Force Global Strike Command after the death of Brayden Lovan, 21, in late July was lifted in late August after Air Force officials determined the M18 was safe to carry.Lovan was an airman with the 90th Security Forces Squadron, 90th Missile Wing at…

With the government shutdown now a month old, a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate is designed to protect Second Amendment rights during just such a shutdown. On October 30, U.S. Sen. Jay Risch, R-Idaho, introduced the Firearm Access During Shutdowns Act, which would require federal agencies to continue processing firearm applications and licenses despite a lapse in appropriations. During government shutdowns, federal agencies are limited in the work they can conduct. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have halted most operations associated with the background checks and licensing applications due…

A new U.S. Army directive orders commanders to act within hours — not days — when a soldier goes missing, giving them three hours to classify a service member as “absent-unknown” and eight hours to notify the soldier’s family once the absence is discovered.The change, issued by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll last week, compresses what sometimes can be a slow, inconsistent process for tracking soldiers with unknown whereabouts and involves law enforcement sooner. Commanders now have 48 hours to determine if a soldier’s disappearance is voluntary or the result of something more serious or sinister. During that window, Army leaders…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  What is the Fed not telling us?  The numbers clearly indicate that big trouble is brewing in the banking system.  I wish that I could specifically tell you which banks are in the most trouble, but at this stage, we simply aren’t being told anything.  They probably figure that the best approach is to try to keep everyone as calm as possible.  But they won’t be able to keep a lid on what is going on indefinitely, and when word finally gets out, people could start to…

When you say “9mm 2011,” folks either lean in or their eyes glaze over. I admit I’m the old guy who grew up on .45 1911s, but I also get the appeal: double-stack 9mm is the new kid on the 1911 block, and the 2011 feels like the natural next step. If you’re one of the purists who thinks anything but .45 in a 1911 is sacrilege—well, Colt put a 9mm Commander out in 1950, so history’s already got your back. With NATO’s rise and the flood of double-stack 9mm pistols, a 9mm 1911 was inevitable. I own both styles,…

With the federal government shutdown in its second month, commissaries and exchanges are offering some additional relief to the military community. The interest-free offer for those making commissary purchases with their Military Star credit card has been extended through Nov. 30. New and existing cardholders receive 90 days of zero interest, and no payments required.The Military Star card is part of the Exchange Credit Program, a Defense Department program established by Congress to provide affordable credit solutions to the military community. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service operates the Military Star card program, which is accepted at military exchange…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case against a military contractor whose employee killed five people and injured 17 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, in 2016.The majority of justices seemed skeptical that the case, brought against Fluor Corp., was an exception to previous lawsuits filed against defense contractors, which typically have immunity in litigation generated by their involvement in wartime service.In the case Hencely v. Fluor, former Army Spec. Winston Hencely argued that Fluor should be liable under state law for failing to supervise an employee who carried out a suicide bomb attack that killed three…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Guardsmen with the Oregon National Guard were deployed in a helicopter to the Mount Hood National Forest Sunday to help search for a missing deer hunter, according to officials in Clackamas County. The National Guard helicopter joined forces with other air support, including pararescuemen (PJs) with the 304th Rescue Squadron, and more than 100 searchers on the ground. The ongoing search for the missing hunter, 51-year-old Devon Dobek, has been underway since Friday evening. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, which is…

Mass amounts of poultry are once again being culled over suspected bird flu cases. These cases were not confirmed, and the culling measures are being slated as “precautionary.” The birds will be culled at a commercial poultry premises in County Tyrone following a suspected case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. According to a report by the BBC, disease control measures have been initiated by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) following a suspect case of the notifiable highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at the site near Pomeroy. Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir said the suspected case was…

I’m a big fan of .357 Magnum revolvers. My very first handgun was a Smith & Wesson 686 in .357 Magnum. I’ve always had a few .357 revolvers in the collection ever since. With that said, I’m always open to getting another one, especially if it’s a good deal. The Zastava M83 revolvers from AIM Surplus fall into that category, so I had to check one out. From Serbia, With Love I know Serbia isn’t the first place to pop into your head when you think of .357 revolvers, but that’s exactly where these are from. Made by Zastava in…

Families of students attending Department of Defense Education Activity schools can apply for free or reduced price school meals during the shutdown, which has affected the income of many military and DOD civilian families. The eligibility is based on income and family size, as required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Eligibility continues as long as the household income qualifies under the USDA thresholds, until the end of the school year, said Julie Mitchell, spokesman for AAFES. Overseas, AAFES provides DOD school meal support, serving 20,000 school meals daily at 73 DOD schools in seven countries. “If income returns to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Mandy Singleton and her husband Coty walked a long way to reach their ladder stand on Oct. 24. They were hunting family-owned property near a freshly picked corn field in the Yellow River bottoms of Indiana’s Marshall County. “It was a long hike in, and we got to a double buddy blind 16 feet in the air about 4:45 p.m.,” Mandy tells Outdoor Life. “The first deer we saw was a doe about 30 minutes later, and in short while another…

A U.S. Army National Guardsman with no previous aviation background learned to successfully maneuver Sikorsky’s optionally piloted Black Hawk helicopter in less than an hour, according to a company release.In a training first, the Guardsman, using a handheld touchscreen tablet, controlled the Optionally Piloted Vehicle Black Hawk and planned its tasks during Exercise Northern Strike 25-2, a large, biannual multinational exercise sponsored by the National Guard Bureau that took place in Michigan this August. The exercise sees units practice a wide variety of offensive and defensive operations jointly in battle scenarios. The Guardsman, whose name has not been released, used…

Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, has claimed that Kiev has received more patriot missiles to aid its military in the war against Russia. The United States-made Patriot air defense systems from Germany. Germany has been a long-time supporter of Ukraine and its war. War Expansion? Zelensky Threatens Strikes On Russia, While Germany Calls For Universal Conscription Zelensky has been pressing his Western backers for more long-range weapons, including Tomahawk cruise missiles and additional Patriot batteries. The New York Times reported in May that although the country possessed eight Patriot systems, only six were operational. The same report discussed more systems and…

From leadership training for military youth caregivers to training veterans to be baseball umpires, this year’s five Fisher Service Award winners have found innovative ways to fill gaps to meet the needs of those in the military and veteran communities. The top winner, with a grant of $100,000, is the Caregiving Youth Student Leadership Program, which is part of the Military Child Education Coalition of Harker Heights, Texas. “These are students who balance homework with hospital visits, who help care for a parent who is healing from injury or illness,” said Mary Bier, president and CEO of the Military Child…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Why Not Try to Rattle Up a Buck?” originally ran in the May 1951 issue of Outdoor Life. While most readers are plenty familiar with the tactics described here, the article is a time capsule from an era when rattling was unheard of among most of the country’s deer hunters. Until, that is, OL shared the regional technique with our national audience. Throughout a vast empire of cactus and mesquite country in the Southwest — an area about the…