Author: Braxton Taylor
Maybe you’ve heard whispers at the office that layoffs are coming. Perhaps your last performance review was less than stellar. Or maybe you’re not happy in your current role and want to pursue a job somewhere else. The question is: Is it OK to look for another job when you’re currently employed?There are two trains of thought on this question. On the one hand, some argue it’s easier to find a job when you have a job (the idea being that if you’re already employed, then you appear more desirable). On the other hand, if you’re not employed, you can…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million…
In May, The Complete Combatant hosted a weekend event called “The Mingle: Openness to Experience.” This was the 9th year of bringing professional women in the firearms industry together for training. It is truly amazing to see 65 shooters working for a common goal: To better themselves. When I was giving the closing statements each day, I would look out in the sea of faces and I would see smiles, eyes on me, positive interactions with people sitting close together, and I could feel overall joy from the guests. Through all this wonderful synergy, my eyes kept moving towards one…
The key to success was surprise. If the enemy knew when and where the attack would strike, their defenders would be ready and the attacking forces faced a greater chance of defeat.So the attackers turned to deception—to mask their plans, mislead the enemy commanders, and misdirect enemy resources. As troops moved into place under camouflage or cover stories, the enemy’s attention was steered elsewhere through trickery: false electronic chatter, thousands of multi-domain decoys that simulated soldiers and units where there were none. The effect was to simultaneously create and decrease ambiguity, and create cognitive overload, leading to both confusion and…
In this episode, Jason Phelps takes on 10 of the toughest elk hunting questions every serious hunter should ask. From calling strategies and terrain tactics to handling hung-up bulls and the mental grind, Jason breaks down exactly how he approaches each scenario in the elk woods. With decades of experience and countless bulls called in, he shares hard-earned insight into what works, what doesn’t, and why. Whether you’re a new hunter or a seasoned vet, this episode delivers real-world advice without the fluff. Tune in for a no-nonsense look at the mindset, methods, and moments that define elk hunting at…
This week on the show Tony and I are getting together for a fun discussion to kick off the summer by recapping our spring turkey hunts, our top 2025 deer plans, and the latest public land news/controversies. Connect with Mark Kenyon and MeatEater Mark Kenyon on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Subscribe to The MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop Wired to Hunt Merch and MeatEater Merch Read the full article here
Air Force Special Operations Command has named a new top enlisted leader nearly two months after his predecessor was removed from the role amid an ongoing investigation.Chief Master Sgt. Courtney Freeman officially assumed command during a ceremony Monday at Hurlburt Field in Florida. He’s replacing Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, who was removed from the AFSOC leadership role in mid-April due to “a loss in confidence” in his abilities — a phrase often used by all the military services to obscure the specific reason behind a firing.Lt. Col. Rebecca Heyse, a command spokesperson, told Military.com on Wednesday that Green “has…
During the Vietnam War, William Broyles Jr. was deployed as an infantry platoon commander in the Marine Corps and visited a Navy hospital there full of severely injured troops. Peering through a window into the hospital, “it looked like that scene in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ where they take the Ark of the Covenant into the warehouse, and all you can see are boxes,” Broyles recalled. “All I could see were wounded teenagers.”The sight so unnerved Broyles that he fainted and broke his nose. That experience led to Broyles’ co-creating “China Beach,” a late-1980s television series about an Army…
A mere two weeks after public land advocates successfully blocked a measure that would have sold over 500,000 acres of federal public land, a U.S. senator has vowed to return the provision to the budget reconciliation bill.Utah Senator Mike Lee told Politico’s E&E News yesterday that he wants to see public land sales back in President Trump’s “one, big, beautiful budget bill.”When asked by reporters whether he intended to bring back public lands provisions that were cut from the House package, he responded, simply, “yes.”MeatEater reached out to Montana senator Steve Daines for a response to his Republican colleague’s comment.…
The program that allows veterans to see private doctors using Department of Veterans Affairs funding would get a 50% boost under a spending plan released by House Republicans on Wednesday.Overall, the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2026 VA spending bill would give the department about $453 billion — a whopping $83 billion more than Congress approved for the department for this year.Most of that increase would be slated for so-called mandatory spending, the type of funding that goes to benefits such as veterans disability pay. Discretionary spending — the type of funding that is mostly used for medical care — would…