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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPrepping channels are full of gear lists. But what happens when you sort through all of them and see what comes up again and again? You get a short list of items that nearly every experienced prepper recommends. That’s what this countdown is about. The 11 items that prepping YouTubers recommend you stockpile more than anything else. These aren’t tactical toys or expensive gadgets—they’re the basics. The kind of gear that should be standard issue for anyone serious about preparedness. Let’s count them down, from #11 to #1. TL;DR: The 11 most recommended prepper…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A post on an anonymous chat platform triggered a lockdown at the U.S. Naval Academy this week, and authorities investigating what turned out to be a false report of a gunman then shot and injured a midshipman who had mistaken them as a threat, a military official said Friday.The base that hosts the academy went into lockdown around 5 p.m. Thursday after it received a threat. However, the official said the threat wasn’t real — it came from a computer belonging to a former midshipman who was later confirmed to be in another part of the country.…

The head law enforcement officers of several conservative states have ramped up their support for the Second Amendment by petitioning the Supreme Court of the United States to take up critical cases dealing with the right to keep and bear arms. We recently reported how attorneys general from 25 states had petitioned SCOTUS to consider a case challenging Massachusetts’ restrictive licensing requirements for nonresidents. More recently, AGs from 27 states have asked the Supreme Court to hear and overrule Washington state’s punitive ban on firearms magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The 27-state coalition, led by Montana…

Speaking on Fox News, Trump said “the mayor is happy” and “the governor is happy” about the pending deployment. The city is “deeply troubled,” he said, adding, “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington,” where he’s sent the National Guard and surged federal law enforcement.Memphis is a majority-Black city and has a Democratic mayor. Tennessee’s governor is a Republican. Both officials’ offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities —…

A Utah Air National Guard base will receive two new squadrons for cyber operations airmen, while losing a tactical air control party squadron, as the service continues to shift away from its Global War on Terror posture.The Air Force said Thursday it has selected Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base to be the preferred location for the Air National Guard’s new cyber operations squadrons. The 109th Air Control Squadron at the base will also be inactivated, the Air Force said. The service said the 109th Air Control Squadron’s inactivation will be part of the 2025 defense budget’s move to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Working as a state or federal wildlife biologist is far from glamorous, and it’s often thankless. It also might be one of the most fascinating jobs in the country. These scientists spend years in school only to work long hours on modest government salaries. They address complaints from the public, juggle shifting conservation priorities, and still find time to do field work. The payoff? Rare and sometimes bizarre encounters with the animals they’re tasked with conserving. Without these hands-on efforts, many…

Midwest Industries AK Multi Tool Buy Now If owning guns means more than keeping an old over-under in the closet, chances are you’ve picked up at least one firearm-related tool. Scroll Amazon for less than a minute and you’ll find endless “as seen on TV”-style AR gadgets. The same can’t be said for the AK—“an elegantly simple nine-pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn’t break, jam, or overheat” (bonus points if you catch the reference). Authors Palmetto State Armory 104 SBR Not long ago, the AK was dismissed as Combloc trash or a passing novelty. Today, with U.S.…

The U.S. Air Force has modified its plans to relocate the 492nd Special Operations Wing to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, the service announced Friday. The 492nd, previously a training wing supporting Air Force Special Operations Command, is currently in the process of transitioning into a new role as a power projection wing, which will see it carry out a wide variety of special operations forces missions, including strike, surveillance, intelligence and SOF mobility. While the plan to relocate the wing to Arizona was originally approved in 2023, the plan has since been “refined” to reflect current Defense Department…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Two unidentified Cornell University students caught some attention from their peers over the weekend for skinning and butchering a black bear in their communal dorm kitchen. A police report was filed and a game warden came to investigate, but according to a university spokesperson, the students received no charges because they’d hunted the bear legally and didn’t break any school rules.   The Cornell Daily Sun was the first to break news of the incident, which took place Saturday at Ganędagǫ Hall.…

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat before stepping onto the island. The struggle, which had settled into a repetitive daily pattern since Aug. 10, 1942, had set the Marines on edge. Stultifying heat and humidity enveloped the men in constant sweat while swarms of insects of biblical proportions greedily feasted on the men, who themselves felt the undeniable gnawing of hunger. Dysentery and malaria were rampant, so much so that one…

Organizations involved in the gun-control debate have begun speaking out about the September 10 assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. As of this writing, the suspected shooter still hadn’t been apprehended by law enforcement, although the gun used in the shooting had been found and the FBI was reviewing video of a suspect, hoping to identify him with facial recognition software. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the firearm industry trade association, said in a released statement that it is grieving the death of the 31-year-old Kirk, who was…