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The Army’s latest effort to modernize its formation took shape on the training grounds of Hawaii last week, as soldiers tested a new “shoot and scoot” mobile mortar system designed to make units more agile in combat. Members of the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment simulated wartime scenarios and trained with the Scorpion Light 81mm mortar system for five days, beginning Oct. 20, according to a Wednesday news release from Global Military Products, the Florida-based company that makes the weapons. The testing was part of the Army’s Transformation in Contact 2.0 program, an initiative that puts experimental weapons and vehicles…

The U.S. Navy has replaced the admiral in charge of the Office of Naval Research with a civilian who has reportedly worked as a Department of Government Efficiency staffer, according to the service.Rear Adm. Kurt. Rothenhaus, who has served as chief of naval research since June 2023, has been reassigned and replaced by Rachel Riley, who most recently acted as a senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a Navy public affairs official confirmed in an emailed statement Thursday.Riley worked at HHS as part of DOGE, the The New York Times previously reported, a job her…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.-Mexico border that could run through next fall, according to a memo released this week and reviewed by The Associated Press.“I am directing you to collectively identify 48 attorneys and 4 paralegals from within your Military Department who may be suitable for detail” to the Justice Department to act as special assistant U.S. attorneys, Hegseth wrote in a memo dated Monday that was sent to all four services and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs…

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach as the Air Force’s next chief of staff.Wilsbach was approved as part of a batch of military promotions the Senate passed by unanimous consent, as one of its last actions before adjourning for the week.Air Force Secretary Troy Meink congratulated Wilsbach, who will be the service’s 24th chief of staff after being sworn in, and lauded his experience.“With his vast experience in the Pacific and as a commander at all levels, he is the right leader for the @usairforce,” Meink said in a post on X shortly after his confirmation.Sen. Kevin Kramer,…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Twenty years ago, when Trent Tatum and his business partner began building a fishing empire on a blue-ribbon tail water in central Wyoming, two clients could catch up to 80 fish a day. That’s roughly 40 rainbow, brown, or cutthroat trout per angler on a boat floating a dozen miles of river. “It was absurd,” says Tatum, co-owner of the North Platte Lodge and The Reef Fly Shop. Anglers would cast three flies below a strike indicator, offering hungry trout a veritable buffet of options drifting…

This article was originally published by Cassie B. at Natural News.  Trump ends the 33-year U.S. moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. He cites strategic competition with Russia and China as the reason. The decision reverses long-standing policy and risks a global arms race. The U.S. last conducted an explosive nuclear test in 1992. Russia and China have recently advanced their own nuclear capabilities. In a move that signals a dramatic shift in global security policy, President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, ending a 33-year moratorium. The announcement came just minutes before a high-stakes…

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.In March 1915, a young British man named Raymond Lodge was deployed to Ypres, France, to fight on the front lines of the first world war. By September, he was dead, aged just 26.A few weeks later, however, Raymond got in touch with his family. “TELL FATHER I HAVE MET SOME FRIENDS OF HIS”, came the message hastily scrawled in all caps by the spiritualist medium Mrs. Osborne…

The Pentagon has clarified that troops will not be barred from wearing their uniforms at Veterans Day events during the government shutdown, despite an email screenshot circulating online that says otherwise.Reports about uniforms not being allowed at Veterans Day events started spreading online Wednesday when the unofficial Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco posted an email from the public affairs department of the Air Force’s 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing at Fort Meade, Maryland, that said service members should not take part in Veterans Day events while in uniform if the shutdown were to continue.“It has been advised that if…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Jason Tayor from the town of Cub Run in central Kentucky had been getting trail camera photos of a great buck for four years on land he owns. Over that time he learned the buck’s habits well, as the deer would show on his Hart County property every early October. “I’d usually see him in summer and September and then he’d start coming to a food plot of mine in early October,” Taylor tells Outdoor Life. “But this year he was…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears to be spearheading an aggressive campaign to bring down Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. That means that the United States is on a road toward a war with Caracas. The U.S. instigated a war when it started striking civilian boats allegedly carrying narcotics to the U.S. At least 61 people, many of them Venezuelans, have been killed in U.S. strikes on boats in international waters, which the Trump administration said, without providing evidence, were carrying drugs. The strikes, which the Trump administration has said are part of an “armed conflict” with cartels, were ordered without congressional…

Defense Health Agency officials have launched an effort to bring back Medicare-eligible Tricare for Life military patients to their treatment facilities, the Pentagon’s top doctor said this week. They are prioritizing bringing back these retirees and their dependents back to 21 military treatment facilities, Dr. Stephen Ferrara, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told a Military Officers Association of America conference Oct. 28.“Those are the folks we really want. We love to have our seniors at MTFs,” Ferrara said. They’ve chosen the 21 locations, based on the specialists available and the capability of the facilities, he said. The…

In the wake of a Washington Post investigation into fraud within the Veterans Affairs disability system and watchdog recommendations that the VA modernize its ratings schedule, a Republican senator has suggested creating a commission to review the VA’s disability compensation program.At a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., questioned whether the Veterans Benefits Administration — the VA arm that manages disability compensation, pensions, education and employment benefits — needs subject matter experts to examine the claims processes and recommend improvements.According to Tuberville, the panel would be similar to the VA’s Commission on Care, which…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Halloween is nearly here, but the following photos go beyond the realm of a predictable holiday. The following ghosts, monsters, and extraterrestrials just may haunt your dreams. Obviously, some of these trail camera photos were staged or altered (before the dawn of generative AI, we might add) but they’ll still raise the hair on the back of your neck. Other photos in this series have odd and unsettling stories behind them, including the one that captured an apparently ravenous witch. Regardless,…

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Before the Second World War, there was little need nor interest in evacuating wounded military personnel to rear areas via aircraft. As the war turned global, however, the pressing need for the creation of medical air evacuation squadrons within the U.S. Army Air Forces became clear. According to the Air Force, a rushed training program for flight surgeons, enlisted medical technicians and flight nurses cropped up at Bowman Field, near Louisville, Kentucky. The all-volunteer force had to train for crash procedures, survival training and the effects of high altitude on patients with various wounds. Since the aircraft also transported military…

Vice President JD Vance said that Christian values are essential for the United States. At a memorial for murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Vance told students at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) that “a properly rooted Christian moral order” is key to the future of the country. Psyop Continues: Christian Nationalism on the Rise Vance, like most Christian Nationalists, proposes a society built on Biblical “morals,” including returning women to subservient roles within society. Department of War head Pete Hegseth even reposted a video from an interview with Doug Wilson, a prominent Christian Nationalist, in which men declare women…

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