Author: Braxton Taylor
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—There’s no such thing as a standard gear set-up from squad to squad in the Army, the chief of infantry said Tuesday, and none of it is designed to work together.So the service finds itself in a place where a dismounted soldier can be walking around with more than 80 pounds of kit, including four or five radios that each do something different.“In fact, we’ve been focusing our efforts on the individual soldier for so long we’ve burdened them with redundant capabilities developed in a stove pipe and added extra weight,” Brig. Gen. Phil Kiniery said at the AUSA…
In his bombshell report in The Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg revealed a stunning violation of national security: the most senior members of the President’s team discussed details of military operations and intelligence on the encrypted messaging app Signal—not in the secure White House Situation Room or over a hardened intranet system. This is not a “learn and move on” situation; heads must roll.One reason is accountability. As the former chief people officer of the Air Force and the Space Force, I know that if any Airman or Guardian or civilian employee were discovered to have shared top-secret information on their personal devices,…
The Navy has a new civilian leader with a hefty business resume but no military experience after the Senate voted Monday evening to approve John Phelan as the service’s secretary.The Senate voted 62-30 to confirm Phelan as Navy secretary, making him the civilian head of both the Navy and Marine Corps and putting him in charge of the health and well-being of more than 1 million sailors, Marines, reservists and civilian personnel and an annual budget of more than $250 billion.While Phelan’s lone connection to military policy prior to being nominated by President Donald Trump was working with a nonprofit…
Gratitude is not something we should just give on one day a year, but it does flow especially freely on Thanksgiving. Gratitude is not something we should just give on one day a year, but it does flow especially freely on Thanksgiving. Here at AmmoSquared we like to say we’re unapologetically patriotic, we love America. This Thanksgiving we’re thankful that common sense is returning to our country. America is returning to her roots choosing strength and rejecting leftist lunacy. There is no doubt the renewal of America will be a long process, but we’re thankful it has started and there is…
Over six decades, Mark Foreman has turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover from the consequences of a bullet wound to the hip sustained fighting as a Marine in Vietnam. It took endlessly long, infectious days for him to get out of deep, cavernous mountains after getting shot, three weeks straight of surgeries in Japan, and years of medical care to try to move on from his wound.Foreman was only 20 when he suffered the injury that would end his military career, and he was discharged after two years of service in 1968. Ever since, the VA has…
This year we’re doing something different… we’re going to include a random free gift in every shipment that goes out in December! This year we’re doing something different… we’re going to include a random free gift in every shipment that goes out in December! Well, it’s that time of year again: snow is starting to fall, Christmas lights are shining bright, holiday plans are being made, and everyone is checking off their gift giving list for the year. December is a time for cold nights, warm fires, hot drinks, and good times with family and friends. It is also a…
Tuesday’s annual “worldwide threats” hearing—intended as a discussion of China, Russia, Iran, transnational criminal organizations, and other actors—devolved instead into something closer to a criminal deposition from Law and Order, with the heads of the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence dodging senators’ questions about their use of a commercial chat app to discuss war plans and foreign affairs—all with a journalist on the line.The fact that officials from the White House, intelligence community, and the Pentagon were using Signal to discuss highly sensitive military activities and relations with allies, possibly on their personal devices, while…
The Army’s elite Ranger School, long regarded as one of the most grueling leadership courses in the military, is rolling out a new physical fitness assessment designed to better measure the endurance and strength required to complete the course.The revised standards will debut with Ranger School class 06-25, beginning April 21, marking the culmination of years of development and refinement. Students will be assessed the first day of the course. While the previous assessment focused on individual graded events, the new version is structured as a continuous evaluation of a candidate’s ability to sustain high-intensity physical exertion.Instead of isolated graded…
As we close out another successful year, it’s incredible to reflect on how far AmmoSquared has come and the journey that brought us here. What started as a big idea out of a small garage has grown into something truly groundbreaking. With NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND members across the country and OVER TEN MILLION ROUNDS stockpiled, our community has grown into something quite unique and amazing… It isn’t a stretch to say: AmmoSquared IS America’s Ammunition Reserve. The concept of being “America’s Ammunition Reserve” didn’t come to us overnight, instead it has evolved over the years. It’s the result of nearly…
The use of an encrypted, commercial messaging app to discuss plans for U.S. military strikes in Yemen by top Trump administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, represents a significant security breach that could have endangered the service members involved in the operation, experts and lawmakers said Tuesday.”There are people whose lives are literally on the line, whether that’s service personnel, whether that’s intelligence personnel,” Michael Williams, an expert on international relations and a professor at Syracuse University, told Military.com in an interview Tuesday. “These guys are supposed to be leaders of the free world, the responsible leaders of the…