Author: Braxton Taylor
Topics Discussed: Ginormous termite mounds; growing up on a ranch in Kenya; how elephants hate bees; the resident lions and leopards; Kenya’s 1977 ban on hunting; 250-pound Nile Perch; the misery that tsetse flies unleash; the fashion combo of shorts and cute gaiters; what it takes to become a Professional Hunter in Tanzania; harvesting honey on the Luganzo Tongwe Game Reserve; eating Steve’s Cape Buffalo; and more. Read the full article here
This week on the show I’m joined by my long-time cohost Dan Johnson to discuss the epiphanies, tactical changes, and philosophical shifts that have occurred as we have unexpectedly become middle-aged hunters. 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
The Marine Corps told its recruiters to stop promoting an immigration program that provides temporary legal status to certain undocumented family members of troops, a move that comes as the Trump administration continues to target increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants for deportation.The program, parole-in-place, or PIP, is run by the Department of Homeland Security and is intended to address immigration issues affecting military families in an effort to reduce concerns for service members whose immediate relatives do not have legal status in the U.S. The policy was first rolled out in 2007 during the height of U.S. operations in Iraq…
Monthly, I teach and coach transitioning service members about the importance of building their personal brand and projecting a thoughtful online presence. And every month, there’s someone in the class, or in a meeting, who’ll share something like, “I don’t believe in social media, so I won’t participate online.”Is that a realistic position to take in today’s competitive business climate? Can you refrain from having an online presence and still find a job and grow your career? Perhaps. But you’re making it much harder than it needs to be.Let’s look at some common beliefs around social media and online positioning:1.…
The Army is eliminating permanent shaving waivers and will boot soldiers who can’t meet grooming requirements, even those with medical conditions that make shaving painful or harmful, a controversial shift that disproportionately affects Black service members.Under the new rules, soldiers will no longer be able to rely on indefinite exemptions, the service announced Tuesday. Troops will be granted short-term shaving exemptions if they require it, but will be removed from the service if they are on those waivers for 12 months during a two-year period. Military.com first reported on the plans two weeks ago.”This is about uniformity, discipline and standards,…
The Army is moving to dismantle the bulk of its horse units, part of a broader push by service planners to eliminate programs they see as peripheral to the core mission of fighting and training for wars.The Army will begin phasing out five horse-mounted ceremonial units stationed at Fort Irwin, California; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Fort Cavazos Texas, Steve Warren, a service spokesperson, told reporters Tuesday.The decision impacts 141 horses currently used for ceremonial events and other pageantry, traditions that trace back to the Army’s cavalry roots but have no operational role in today’s…
The Pentagon is looking for tiny sensors that track the health of biological tissue, part of an effort to help soldiers recover from wounds—and give the U.S. biotech industry a leg up. “The BIO INSPECT, government-directed project through AIM Photonics is seeking to develop an in situ, real-time analysis capability for applications in regenerative medicine,” Nicholas Usechak, director of ultrafast photonics devices and research laboratory in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s sensors directorate, told Defense One during a Pentagon research and engineering event on Tuesday. AIM Photonics, one of the Defense Department’s manufacturing innovation institutes, and specializes in the complete manufacturing of…
The Coast Guard received nearly $25 billion in the Trump administration’s reconciliation bill to address long-standing maintenance and infrastructure problems and buy additional ships and aircraft.The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed Friday by President Donald Trump, included a record cash infusion for the U.S. Coast Guard to build ships and aircraft for expanded maritime operations and $6.6 billion for improvements and maintenance of shore infrastructure, depots and training facilities.The $24.6 billion investment is nearly twice the Coast Guard’s annual budget and is in addition to the $14.4 billion the Trump administration has requested for the service for fiscal 2026.Read…
Veterans, service members and advocates speaking at a roundtable hosted by lawmakers on Wednesday said that the U.S. military isn’t doing enough to prevent long-term health effects tied to toxins and other risks troops are exposed to during their time in uniform, calling for reforms in existing toxic exposure laws.Air Force Lt. Col. Jacob Berry, an active-duty occupational and environmental medicine physician, said during the roundtable hosted by members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the 2022 toxic exposure law known as the PACT Act needs to be upgraded. The military and Department of Veterans Affairs need to better…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.On July 4, the broken remnants of a powerful tropical storm spun off the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico so heavy with moisture that it seemed to stagger under its load. Then, colliding with another soggy system sliding north off the Pacific, the storm wobbled and its clouds tipped, waterboarding south central Texas with an extraordinary 20 inches of rain. In the predawn blackness, the Guadalupe River, which drains from the Hill Country, rose by more than 26 vertical…