Author: Braxton Taylor
A retired Army lieutenant colonel who worked as an Air Force civilian employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide classified information through an online dating app to someone claiming to be a person in Ukraine.On Thursday, 64-year-old David Slater entered his guilty plea, a Justice Department news release said. Slater, after retiring from the Army, was an Air Force employee assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, where he held a top security clearance.Between February and April of 2022, Slater is charged with conspiring to share classified national defense information that he learned from Strategic…
Steven Rinella talks with Joash Vomo, Executive Director of the Robin Hurt Wildlife Foundation and Anti-Poaching & Community Coordinator. Topics Discussed: Buy a raffle ticket for the chance to win TRCP’s annual turkey hunt with Steve and Jani; subsistence poaching vs. selling poached game meat on the black market; snares big enough to catch a cape buffalo; homemade muzzle loaders; the punishment for poaching a giraffe, Tanzania’s national animal; how a poacher becomes an anti-poacher; community-based conservation; patrolling waterways; how black mambas can stand on their tales, chase cars, and kill you in a matter of minutes; and more. Connect with…
Children’s biographies of trailblazing transgender public figures. An award-winning novel reflecting on what it is like to be Black in America. A series of graphic novels about the love story between a teenage gay couple.Those are some of the 596 books that have been pulled from shelves in the Defense Department schools that serve military children as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to censor LGBTQ+ and racial issues from official government materials.The full list was released by the order of a federal judge as part of the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against the Department of Defense Education…
This week, Tony explains why scouting right now can be so valuable to rut sits, even if it might not seem to make much sense on the surface. Connect with Tony Peterson and MeatEater Tony Peterson on Instagram and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop MeatEater Merch Read the full article here
Asking for help may feel uncomfortable and awkward, especially at work. Perhaps you believe that doing so may demonstrate weakness or insecurity. But in fact, asking for help is a sign of strength: Suffering in silence is not. When you reach out for guidance, assistance, support or more tools, you’re demonstrating your commitment and resilience to overcome obstacles. This is viewed positively in the civilian workforce, especially when seeking a mentor.What Is Mentorship?Mentorship is a powerful and rich form of support and help in which many professionals engage to grow their skills, network and professional clout. A mentor volunteers their…
Taller boots and shorter eyelashes mark some of the new and stricter uniform guidance for airmen, the latest push by service leadership to update policies for the rank and file.The new guidance for Dress and Personal Appearance standards for airmen was released Thursday and sets out regulations for a minimum height for combat boots, outlaws eyelash extensions under most circumstances, requires officers to have at least one set of an operational camouflage pattern — or OCP — uniform, and clarifies folding or cuffing sleeves on OCPs.”The image of a disciplined and committed airman instills public confidence that airmen live by…
Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and the miners who dug up the uranium to fuel the weapon eligible for compensation — nearly 80 years after the fearsome 22-kiloton blast code-named Trinity sent up a churning mushroom cloud over the desert.”This is the 80th year since the bomb was detonated at Trinity, so the people of New Mexico have essentially been waiting 80 years for this acknowledgment and this assistance,” Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and executive director of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said…
As the Guadalupe River rose in Kerr County, Texas, in the early hours of July 4, Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi received a call to help rescue hundreds of campers in the path of a devastating flash flood.The four-person crew of Rescue 6553, an HC-65E Dolphin helicopter dispatched from the station, flew 150 miles through the dense storm, relying on instrumentation only for navigation. After attempting to reach the hardest-hit area three times — a harrowing flight that took nearly seven hours — the crew finally succeeded, opening up a lifeline for hundreds of people, including many children, to…
The Pentagon has pulled a host of top military officials from attending a major security conference in Colorado that was set to start Tuesday, arguing that the event is anti-American and goes against the values of the Trump administration.”The Department of Defense has no interest in legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement.The conference in question is the Aspen Security Forum — an event put on annually by the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit organization — and it is…
President Donald Trump today announced a new plan to increase sales of U.S. weapons to Europe in order to help support Ukraine, and promised aggressive new tariffs—perhaps as high as 100%—aimed at Russia’s trading partners should it fail to reach a peace deal in the next 50 days. The move indicates Russia hawks are winning the influence war within the White House, at least for now. Among the arms Trump said the United States would sell to Europe are a “full complement” of Patriot missiles and batteries (generally understood to be about 30 missiles, though it can vary depending on missile type).…