The U.S. military is tightening its entry standards by shifting more than two dozen medical disqualifications to the earliest stages of the recruitment process. U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, also known as USMEPCOM, announced this week that it will prescreen prospective recruits for 28 medical conditions that have been deemed highly unlikely to receive enlistment waivers. The change does not alter the current eligibility standards so much as it recalibrates the timing of judgement. Determinations that once emerged later in the process will now be flagged at the very first point of contact. “This is a shift order,” Army Col.…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Owning 20 different rod and reel setups, each for a specific technique, is nice, but far from necessary. Nearly all bass fishing can be done with one or two rods. I’m not talking about winning the local derby with one rod, I’m talking about good old fun fishing. When you don’t want to, and don’t need to, worry about the minutia of catching a ditch pickle. If…

An alleged suicide note, handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, was found by the late financier’s cellmate back in 2019. A federal judge has just released the note to the public. Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in August 2019. His death was officially ruled a suicide, though it has continued to fuel public scrutiny and conspiracy theories because of his connections to wealthy and powerful political figures. White House Says Trump’s “Birthday Letter” To Jeffrey Epstein is “Fake News” The note was reportedly found in July 2019 by Epstein’s then-cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione.…

A group of over 50 military spouse-owned small businesses headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday to advocate for a recognition act, aimed at removing barriers for businesses like theirs and improving national security through increased retention rates for service members.The Military Spouse Small Business Recognition Act was influenced by the high unemployment rate for military spouses and the rate of spouses that are self-employed small business owners or are interested in entrepreneurship, according to a Thursday media round table.“Spousal employment and financial stability are among the top factors for service member retention, and when military spouses can’t build businesses, that…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics We may never really know precisely what the biggest fish ever caught was — or who caught it, or where. The world’s waters are deep and mysterious places, and the best fishermen are good at keeping secrets. That’s just one reason why any modern list of the world’s biggest catches includes some caveats. If we’re basing this list off size alone, we’d have to consider the 2-ton whale shark that Chinese commercial fishermen reportedly netted by accident in 2014. But then we’d also have to include…

A U.S. Navy installation in Italy confirmed the presence of a toxic gas in some of its non-residential buildings, including schools, after previously rejecting the results of the detection test that uncovered the problem, the service announced.Naval Support Activity Naples conducted a year-long analysis of radon levels at non-residential facilities from August 2024 to September 2025 but announced on Feb. 9 that the results it received in January were not reliable, as they did not meet the Navy Radon Assessment and Mitigation Program’s quality assurance standards. NSA Naples has since reversed course, however, announcing May 4 that the results were…

An Army aviator who concealed his identity behind a fake dating app profile to get dates was sentenced to 31 years in prison after a military jury convicted him of raping two women, according to authorities who are now seeking additional possible victims. Warrant Officer Dawson Van Manen, 27, was convicted April 29 on charges including rape and abusive sexual contact involving two women, according to the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel. He was formerly assigned to the 1st Aviation Brigade at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Prosecutors said Van Manen in August 2024 used the alias “2nd Lt. David Johnson”…

Israel’s strike on cities in Lebanon continue despite the ceasefire. Some of the more recent attacks have hit a commercial center in the southern part of the country and buildings in Beirut’s suburbs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he had personally approved a strike on Beirut, which he said targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force. According to two videos shared by Ruptly (a video agency subsidiary of RT) on Thursday, the damage is intense. One video showed damage in Bourj al-Barajneh in the Beirut area, where what looked like a market was hit. Several nearby buildings were…

Vilseck, Germany — The picturesque Bavarian town of Vilseck has hosted U.S. forces since the end of World War Two and could bear the brunt of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw at least 5,000 troops from Germany.Although details of the units affected by the order have not been confirmed, the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment — the only permanent brigade combat team in Germany — based at Rose Barracks in Vilseck is expected to go.“The consequences would be dramatic,” said the town’s new mayor, Thorsten Graedler, who took office this week facing the prospect of thousands of job losses in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “A Dream Trophy,” appeared in the March 1961 issue of Outdoor Life. Fitz’z caribou is currently ranked 57th all time for woodland caribou in the Boone and Crockett Club record books. In the cabin on Deer Lake that served as a base for Ray Wellon’s bush airplanes, we unfolded my big map of Newfoundland. I had outlined four small areas on it in pencil. Fairly well separated, they were deep in the southern interior, and I pointed to a…

The Department of Defense is looking for AI-enhanced target recognition to help troops, vehicles and ships destroy drones. The C-UAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhancement project focuses on aided target recognition, or AiTR. This uses concepts such as AI, machine learning and computer vision to create a system that can detect threats — and distinguish them from non-threats such as birds — faster than a human operator can. The first phase of the project is aimed at remote weapons stations, and specifically the ubiquitous Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, or CROWS, turrets fitted to a variety of military vehicles. “The primary…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Most hunters look at elk as one of the ultimate big game quarries in North America. Some will spend a decade or more waiting to draw a bull tag in a premier unit or wilderness area. But outside of these zones, and especially in agricultural areas, elk are sometimes viewed as a destructive nuisance. Which is exactly why, on May 5, a legislative committee in South Dakota passed a rule allowing for an unlimited number of elk hunting licenses in the…

An evangelical preacher out of Tennessee, Perry Stone, claimed on a podcast that government officials held a secret briefing for pastors. Religious leaders were allegedly urged by the ruling class to prepare their congregations for the imminent release of information about alien life and unidentified spacecraft, or UFOs (unidentified flying objects). These revelations would upend the Christian faith, Sone said. Stone, a Tennessee-based Pentecostal preacher and founder of the Voice of Evangelism ministry, made the remarks in a podcast last week, which gained traction only recently, according to a report by RT.  With Christian nationalism on the rise, if this…

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Two Democratic congressmen are set to introduce legislation Thursday aimed at lowering drug prices for millions of service members, veterans and military families. Reps. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., and Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., both retired U.S. Army veterans and members of the House Armed Services Committee, are advancing a bill they dubbed the MISSION RX Act.Their proposal is designed to allow Tricare beneficiaries and Department of Veterans Affairs patients to pay for prescription drugs at whichever is the lower of two prices: the rate negotiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, or the cost offered through their existing…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  Summary Axios reports that the White House is nearing a preliminary deal with Iran to end the war, as Trump’s post appears to offer an olive branch. White House says it expects a response to the latest offer within 48 hours. Iran’s initial response via media & national security spox: US demands are unrealistic & do not reflect reality. A key caveat of the US offered deal is that Iran would commit to a moratorium on uranium enrichment, & Washington wants a 20-year ban on this.   US x Iran permanent peace deal by June…

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