Author: Braxton Taylor
President Trump’s military takeover of America’s capital city means troops are tasked with “area beautification” and “monument security,” Pentagon spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson told reporters Thursday. The deployment of some 800 Air and Army National Guardsmen is intended to help the city’s temporarily federalized police with “monument security, community safety patrols, protecting federal facilities and officers, traffic control posts and area beautification,” Wilson said. That includes presence on the National Mall, though Wilson did not answer questions about the specific crimes the Trump administration believes need to be stamped out near the monuments and museums, Defense One’s Meghann Myers reports. “They will remain…
Texas wildlife officials have named the suspects at the center of a massive smuggling operation to illegally transport whitetail deer across the state–and one of them is on the board of the Texas Deer Association.These “ghost deer,” as they’ve come to be called, were allegedly transported between breeding facilities in an attempt to skirt the rules designed to limit the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease.Texas Game Wardens previously announced that 22 suspects had been charged with a total of 1,200 charges in connection to this scheme. But none of the suspects were named, which indicated that the investigation was still…
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently announced citations in a startling case of marine wildlife poaching. According to a Facebook post, CDFW officers were on a routine patrol on the evening of August 1, when they encountered suspicious activity around 11 p.m. near Royal Palms Beach in Los Angeles.The CDFW watched four individuals in diving gear actively catching and bringing ashore spiny lobsters for several hours, despite the season having been closed in March.“At about 3 a.m., the suspects left the area,” wrote a CDFW spokesperson. “Wildlife officers initiated contact and the suspects attempted to flee on…
Mossberg 590 Shockwave Nightstick (MSRP: $700) Range toy or serious defensive firearm? Opinions on these “firearms” are somewhat mixed. I can’t make up your mind for you, but I can describe how I started to appreciate what firearms like the Mossberg Shockwave can bring to the party. I am a defensive shotgun nerd. I’m certified by Rangemaster to teach defensive shotgun and do so regularly. I’ve attended classes in the defensive scattergun from 360 Performance Shooting and others, and my home defense gun is a tricked-out Mossberg 590. As a result, I approached this assignment with a few thousand grains…
00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia podcast. 00:00:26 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. Today is Thursday, August fourteenth. It’s eleven am Mountain time here in Bozeman, Montana. That’s nine AM and Tallahassee, Florida, the new black bear hunting capital of the country. I’m your host, Randa Williams, and I’m joined today by Spencer Newhearth and Corey Caulkins. Hey, today’s show, we’re gonna hear about some fascinating firearms from our friends at Rock Island Auctions. We’ve got another hot tip off for you. We’re getting together the old Meat Eater Movie Club…
00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot lighting and just general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stores to share. Going home, some folks say you can’t go home again. I’ve never researched the implied meaning…
AI is expected to play a central role in the Golden Dome air-defense system, from helping to integrate today’s sensors and interceptors to accelerating the detection and tracking of threats, according to slides shown by Defense Department officials last week at an industry day in Huntsville, Alabama. The slides also provided new detail on the Pentagon’s ambitions for missile-killing satellites and other matters.More than 3,000 people from the space and missile-defense sectors attended the daylong event, which was held amid—but was not formally affiliated with—the industry-group 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forbade Defense Department officials…
Flight restrictions are being put in place in Alaska ahead of President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s scheduled meeting Friday to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine at a remote U.S. military base.North American Aerospace Defense Command issued a statement saying it would be enforcing Federal Aviation Administration flight restrictions over Anchorage, Alaska, “in support of the presidential summit.”A White House official confirmed to Military.com on Thursday that the meeting would be taking place at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, an Army and Air Force installation that supports F-22 Raptor units and traces its roots back to the Cold War.Read…
Two survivors of veterans who died from military-related illnesses are challenging the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of dropping family caregiver application appeals once a veteran passes away.The daughter of an Army Vietnam veteran who cared for her father in his final years and the wife of a separate Vietnam-era veteran filed a potential class-action suit Monday in federal court arguing that their cases should still be considered by the Board of Veterans Appeals even though their veterans had died.Both had received denials for entry to the VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, and both had appealed their…
On May 29, the Yuanxingzhe-1 suborbital rocket took off from a platform in the Yellow Sea, carrying with it not just the hopes of its maker—a Chinese commercial launch firm called Space Epoch—but also the prospects for China’s next phase in its space power. The 64-meter rocket came to a hover about 2.5 km up, then landed vertically at the Oriental Spaceport in Haiyang, Shandong, marking the first known successful maritime vertical takeoff and vertical landing by a Chinese rocket company.The test flight drew far less international coverage than, say, the pioneering SpaceX flights that preceded it. But it underscores China’s…