U.S. Navy leadership announced Thursday that the flight demonstration squadron involved in an abnormally low flyover at Pensacola Beach, Florida, will not face consequences.Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao absolved the Blue Angels of their unorthodox Wednesday flight maneuver, which rattled civilian chairs and umbrellas.“Flight debrief complete,” Cao said in an X post. “No reprimands. No firings. No problem.”The Navy initiated a safety review shortly after the incident, but it is unclear what effects Cao’s comments will have on that process, if any.Cao’s remarks came amid a flurry of support from the Trump administration for the Blue Angels after online videos…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The Griz (Dick Grzywinski) is now well into his 80s and the legendary angler is still guiding clients several days a week. He walks down the boat ramp with a cane, and his once-dark, slicked-back hair has turned a wispy white. But he still hammers fish, and he and his wife still eat fresh-caught fish multiple times a week.  While Griz’s favorite fish to fry is pike, he of course loves to catch, fillet, and cook walleyes, too. This video captures the process the Griz has…

The United States ruling class has launched another series of overnight strikes in Iran, reportedly hitting civilian infrastructure, including several bridges across the Islamic Republic. Tehran had already threatened that further escalation would have consequences for the entire region when the US launched these attacks. “If the enemy, in the course of its war of attrition, seeks to strike Iran’s infrastructure or carry out further assassinations of officials, the entire region will pay the price,” a senior intelligence official in Tehran told RT on Thursday, as the US launched its latest strikes. Does that mean Iran will do anything major?…

The U.S. Navy announced that certain commands are no longer authorized to provide photos and biographies of leadership on public-facing websites.The decision was made to enhance security for sailors and their families, the service said.“Adversaries increasingly aggregate publicly available data to track, profile, and target our personnel,” a Navy administrative message read. “By creating an unnecessary spotlight and surge of online interest, routine command triad biographies inadvertently expose our people to elevated risk.”Commands led by vice admirals and officers with a lower rank, including civilian equivalents, are now prohibited from uploading the personal information on public websites.The official leadership biographies…

A year after massive civilian personnel layoffs swept through the federal government and across military services, the U.S. Space Force is still rattled from its loss of a third of its total personnel.About 14% of the service’s civilian workforce, roughly 780 employees, got cut last year in what Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, called “mindless.” The cuts have left senators questioning how the Space Force can rebuild the loss of personnel.“I worry that a lot of expertise walked out the door during that period,” King said during Thursday’s hearing to discuss the nomination of Lt. Gen.…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics This story, “Bull Bass Are My Hobby,” appeared in the July 1963 issue of Outdoor Life. Sometimes you can’t win. Conditions that July night were just about perfect. It was warm and still, with barely enough breeze to ruffle the surface of the water. A big moon, almost full, made casting as easy as by daylight. I was on Bull Shoals Lake, the huge, sprawling impoundment that straddles the Arkansas-Missouri border in the north-central Ozarks. Since 9 p.m. I’d been scratching bottom in 30 to 40…

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Every morning, Chelsea Thomas wakes up married, but alone. Her husband, an Air Force service member, has spent the past three years living more than 600 miles away because of military orders. While he relocated to his next assignment, Thomas remained in Florida with their children, preserving careers, school routines and the life they had built.It isn’t a deployment. For the Thomas family, it’s simply military life. For generations, military families were expected to pack up together every time orders arrived. Today, some families are making a different calculation. Rather than uprooting children’s schools, abandoning established careers, leaving specialized medical…

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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.Two months before Pete Hegseth appeared in front of Congress to testify in his confirmation to be secretary of defense, he sat across from the podcaster Shawn Ryan, talking about the Pentagon’s 2015 decision to open ground combat roles to women.“It hasn’t made us more effective. It hasn’t made us more lethal,” Hegseth said. “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.”By the time of Hegseth’s appearance on the show in…

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Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. We were not 300 yards from camp when my buddy Brad froze in his tracks. “There’s a buck right there,” he whispered as he grabbed for his binos and aimed them uphill. “It’s just a giant 2-point.”  But over Brad’s shoulder, less than 70 yards away, I could see another deer with its head down feeding.  As I nocked an arrow I replied, “What about that other buck?” At that moment the 2-point trotted downhill, joined the…

This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute.  He spoke with a very thick Sicilian accent.“Ah, young fellow,” he said to Vito. “People tell me you’re rich. You and your two friends. But don’t you think you’ve treated me a little shabbily? After all, this is my neighborhood, and you should let me wet my beak.” — The Godfather, Don Fanucci tries to shake down Vito Corleone In the mid-1990s, Microsoft stood atop the high-tech world, and its founder and chairman, Bill Gates, had guru status among his fellow Americans. Microsoft had recently come out with its…

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