Author: Braxton Taylor
Brevard County, Florida, has no chill—at least, not if you’re a kid trying to fish a neighborhood pond.Less than 12 months after a Palm Bay man was arrested for allegedly holding a group of young anglers at gunpoint, a Melbourne woman has been arrested for doing the same.Both incidents involved Brevard County teenagers who were supposedly trespassing to fish local ponds and lakes, but this latest incident has what the other one did not: video. Investigators say 59-year-old Donna Elkins caught 13- and 15-year-old boys fishing in her backyard. Like many Florida neighborhoods, Elkins home backs up to a small…
Flying deer have been a part of our culture since the first tracks were found on snow-covered roofs on Christmas Day. Turkeys that can do math are a wholly different animal in more ways than one. Brent’s sharing a listener’s story and looking for answers to a 19-year-old mystery. Turn your ears on and let’s see what you think. It’s time for MeatEater’s “This Country Life” podcast. Read the full article here
Shernice Mundell thought she’d be working for the federal government for years.The Air Force veteran and single mother of a teenage son left a job in the private sector to work at the Office of Personnel Management, essentially human resources for the federal government, in August and was promoted after just four months. As far as she knew, she was excelling and her job was secure.Then came Feb. 13. That afternoon, she was invited to a meeting on Microsoft Teams, where she and 74 other people were shown a prerecorded video informing them they were being fired. She became one…
Hosts Spencer Neuharth, Janis Putelis, and Seth Morris touch on their turkey trips, get the skinny on a fat cottonwood from the University of Nebraska’s Justin Evertson, play 1-Minute Fishing with Tyler Coleman of Trout Unlimited, climb the latest Meat Poll, and talk Boone and Crockett javelina with Jim Heffelfinger. Read the full article here
As the Department of Veterans Affairs moves to accelerate rollout of its new electronic health records system, congressional leaders are demanding an update on the overall deployment plan and updated cost estimate.The Republican and Democratic leadership of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees joined with leaders of the appropriations subcommittees that control VA spending to write VA Secretary Doug Collins as the department prepares to introduce the system to 13 new locations in 2026.Referencing several reports by the Government Accountability Office that recommended the VA produce a new cost estimate before moving ahead with the program, the lawmakers said…
It’s time to party like it’s 1775 — at least, for the Navy and Marine Corps.The year 2025 marks the 250th birthday for both branches of the U.S. military and Philadelphia (the birthplace of each) will host Homecoming 250: the official national celebration. An estimated 300,000 history buffs and sea service veterans are expected to attend.From Oct. 9-16 and then on Nov. 10, 2025, the City of Brotherly Love, along with Camden, New Jersey (which sits directly across the Delaware River), will host a series of events to commemorate the Navy and Marine Corps semiquincentennial, all of which are open…
Giving up American military leadership of the NATO alliance would be “problematic,” the top U.S. general in Europe told senators Thursday.At an annual hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Christopher Cavoli was asked about reports that the Trump administration is considering relinquishing the U.S. role as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACEUR, a title that has been held by a U.S. general since its inception in the 1950s.As the chief of U.S. European Command, Cavoli also holds the position of SACEUR right now. While he acknowledged that it will ultimately be a policy decision by the administration…
Day care centers at Peterson Space Force Base and Fort Carson in Colorado are disenrolling some families and pausing waitlists amid staffing issues, the latest impacts of the Trump administration’s hiring freeze throughout the federal government.Two memos, reviewed by Military.com and confirmed as authentic by base officials, both express issues with ongoing staffing challenges at the Space Force base, as well as the Army garrison.”Due to ongoing staffing challenges related to our adherence to current administration guidance and recent impacts from the hiring freeze the Main Child Development Center (CDC) is facing a critical shortage of qualified child care providers,”…
The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism, according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations.Internal discussions are exploring trimming the force to between 360,000 and 420,000 troops — down from its current level of roughly 450,000. The potential cuts would mark one of the most dramatic force reductions in years, as military planners aim to reshape the Army from a blunt conventional force into what they hope could be a…
An Air Force commander at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, has been removed from his leadership position, a move that comes several months after he faced arrest and charges were subsequently dropped against him.Col. Joseph Coughlin, commander of the 557th Weather Wing at Offutt, was removed from his position Tuesday “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead,” a Wednesday news release said.In late January, Military.com learned that Coughlin had been arrested in Sarpy County, Nebraska, and was accused of third-degree domestic violence assault charge, according to online court details. The charges were dropped later that month,…