Author: Braxton Taylor

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Don’t panic. That’s the worst thing you can do, right. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: You can’t expect to always just sit around and have one show up. 00:00:07 Speaker 3: It’s just not the reality. 00:00:08 Speaker 4: It really goes back to what was left there last year, which it was good last year, and there was some really good upcumbers. There were some nice bocks that you were hunting that you were happy to tag. It’ll be good to get in this year. 00:00:18 Speaker 5: Welcome back to another round of Back forty, where we…

Gen. David Allvin, the Air Force’s top uniformed leader, suddenly announced Monday evening that he would be retiring as the service’s chief of staff, marking the latest leadership shake-up within the Pentagon.Allvin said in the statement that he would stay on as Air Force chief until his replacement is confirmed to “allow time for a smooth leadership transition.” By law, the role lasts no more than four years, and Allvin was in the seat for just shy of two years before announcing he would be leaving. It marks the shortest tenure of an Air Force chief of staff since Gen.…

Military retirees and family members on Tricare for Life, and civilians with access to military hospitals and clinics, will lose coverage for weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound starting Aug. 31, according to the Defense Health Agency.Military health officials said earlier this month that Medicare-eligible retirees — those who use Tricare for Life — and Defense Department civilians and others with access to military hospitals but who aren’t on Tricare will no longer be able to get these popular medications through the DoD health system.Beneficiaries with Tricare Prime, Tricare Select and premium-based Tricare plans will continue to have coverage,…

A program to relocate vulnerable Afghans, including allies who helped the U.S. during the war and families of American service members, that was dismantled by the Trump administration would be reestablished under a bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday.The Enduring Welcome Act would revive the Office of the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts, or CARE, which was established after the 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan to help resettle Afghans fleeing the Taliban and was shuttered by the State Department earlier this year.”Honoring our commitments to our Afghan allies should never be a partisan issue, but a matter of moral responsibility, national honor…

The United Kingdom has dropped its push to require that tech giant Apple provide the country’s security officials with backdoor access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday. The Washington Post reported in January that the UK issued a secret order to Apple that directed the company to provide its law enforcement and intelligence personnel with the “blanket capability” to access customers’ encrypted files worldwide. The order would have affected Apple users across the world, including those in the U.S.Under the UK’s 2016 Investigatory Powers Act — known colloquially as the Snooper’s Charter — Apple…

One of the things people like to say about my job, is that it sure must be nice to hunt and fish all the time. I always agree, because that sounds a lot better than mostly sitting at a desk pounding on the keyboard while waiting for the next Google Meet to start.While my job puts me into the field and on the water more than say, being a plumber, it’s still a lot of time not spent in the woods and on the water. Add in a pair of 13-year-old girls who haven’t met an activity or organized sport…

XS Sights has recently launched a version of the R3D 2.0 night sights to fit Glock pistol slides that are machined at the factory with the Aimpoint A-Cut optics mount footprint. XS Sights R3D 2.0 night sights are low profile and easy-to-see carry sights. The R3D 2.0 front sight includes a large tritium vial surrounded by a wide, eye-catching photoluminescent green or orange glow dot. Rear sights have two smaller tritium vials for use in low light. In addition to this, R3D 2.0 rear sights use a wide square rear notch with a serrated face, a format proven to work…

Trijicon—a provider of innovative aiming solutions to military, law enforcement and consumers since 1981—launched a rebate program for its Trijicon RCR (Ruggedized Closed Reflex) on Aug. 1. The promotion runs until Oct. 31, 2025, and offers a $100 consumer rebate on qualifying purchases of a new Trijicon RCR 3.25-MOA dot. Only RCR optics purchased during this period are eligible for the consumer rebate and the offer is limited to five rebates per household. The made-in-USA Trijicon RCR builds on the proven RMR design, offering unmatched durability and waterproof performance to 66 feet. Machined from 7075-T6 aluminum in the patented RMR…

Cliff Young was in his 60s when he became a well-known figure in the running world. In the early 1980s, Young was recognized for his running accomplishments, along with his never-quit mindset, persistence and humble work ethic. Released in 2013, the movie “Cliffy” chronicles Young’s rise from a potato farmer to an ultramarathoner and proves it is never too late to start training and achieve a goal.The Popularity of RunningMarathons were nothing new in the 1970s. The worldwide acceptance of running as an Olympic sport started in Athens in 1896, and its inspiration dates all the way back to the…

If the Pentagon is to harness the promise of quantum-powered devices, it needs ways to connect them to today’s data networks. But networking has been the “black sheep” of quantum research, says the leader of a DARPA program that’s attempting to bridge the gaps.“On this program, the challenge is: How do we integrate quantum systems on our current communication infrastructure?” said Allyson O’Brien, whose QuANET program—it’s short for “quantum networks”—has been operating since March 2024. “What do they look like as sensors, as better timekeepers and as novel types of data carriers? What can we do with them that you would…