NASHVILLE—The Army thinks its Apache helicopters, developed a half-century ago to kill Soviet tanks, might offer a solution to enemy drones two or three orders of magnitude smaller.As the service races to mold a counter-drone strategy based on lessons from Ukraine and now Iran, it is testing AH-64s armed with…

Earlier this week, Denver Water announced that it will soon drain water from one of Colorado’s most popular recreational fisheries: Antero Reservoir. The decision will shutter recreational opportunities at the premier trophy trout fishery, likely impacting it for years to come.Denver Water, a public utility that serves 1.5 million people…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: At two o’clock on a clear November afternoon, a single rifle shot cracked through the Big Woods of northern Maine. Shirley Smith thought her husband had just tagged a deer, but Bob Smith was gone. There was no storm, no cliff, no rushing river, just thick timber,…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: We talked to a lot of people across country and we get asked a lot like was it like hunting there or you know, people will take that, They’ll take videos that have historically been on like Outdoor Channel or whatever where dudes are rattling in the…

Updated: 7:50 p.m. ET.Navy Secretary John Phelan, the service’s top civilian leader, is leaving his role, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. His departure was announced as the Navy takes part in an unprecedented blockade of Iranian ports, and the day after Phelan spoke at the nation’s largest naval-themed conference.“Secretary of the…

The Marines are known for their creative group PT workouts. From perfect-cadence pushups in unison to burpees, squats, lunges and running, the PT coordinators in the Marine Corps create challenging workouts for large groups of recruits and Marines alike. You are limited to your group’s fitness abilities and your imagination…

A female soldier who was attacked and raped by a convicted serial predator at Fort Hood has filed a $10 million personal injury complaint against the U.S. Army, alleging that the service was aware of sexual crimes and physical abuse but did nothing to warn others or to put additional…

Two years ago, I was ready to throw hands at the next person to tell me to go mobile. I had only recently ditched ladder stands for climbing stands, which I considered mobile enough. The last thing I wanted to do was learn a new hunting system.I put up a…

Federal prosecutors have served grand jury subpoenas to top Minnesota government officials as part of a criminal investigation into alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement, simultaneously as state authorities are themselves conducting an independent probe into a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) agent’s shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis.The…

A “historic” energy deal is now on the table between the United States and Venezuela, tying the arrest of former leader Nicolás Maduro to a sweeping effort to reopen the country’s oil industry to foreign investment.The Trump administration said it is facilitating talks with oil companies to rebuild Venezuela’s badly…

Back when I first got into the gun business in the mid-1990s, my gun-handling and shooting skills were, to put it charitably, extremely—well, let’s go with “mediocre.” I was enthusiastic, read everything I could on the topic and knew all manner of facts and statistics, but I just didn’t have…

When I first started tracking whitetail bucks in the big woods, things always seemed to go the same way. I’d find a buck track, and then I’d meticulously follow it through the forest all day long without ever seeing the buck that made it.It frustrated me because I thought I…

Award-winning and best-selling authors are also veterans, and there is more to look forward to in 2026. Even though no statistical datasets reliably exist that track how many veteran authors are published, veterans make up less than ten percent of the U.S. population. While veteran authors are a small subset of…

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