It’s the annual World Championship Squirrel Cook Off in Bentonville, Arkansas. Brent’s sitting down with Kevin Murphy, Josh Spielmaker, Lake Pickle, Dave Gardner, and Joe Wilson for a round table discussion of the event and what everyone’s been up too. Fix a plate and get comfortable. It’s time for MeatEater’s…
John Gately served in his state’s military while also working for a statewide military agency. He’s now suing his now former employer, claiming that an off-duty political post led to his termination. Texas resident John Gately filed a federal lawsuit June 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Western…
A bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers is pushing Congress to give the nation’s military service academies a dedicated source of infrastructure funding and make it easier for them to use private donations to build new facilities. Nine House members and eight senators have signed a letter asking congressional defense leaders…
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—With an eye on the Navy’s progress toward an unmanned aerial tanker, Air Force planners are asking questions about their own future tanker fleet.“Thinking beyond the current KC-46 buy and the program extension. Whatever that next tanker looks like—our advanced tanker system—it’s got to be connected. It’s got…
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Space Force modernization efforts could slow if Congress doesn’t pass a full budget at the end of the year, the service’s leaders said. “We’re on this ramp-up, right, consistent with our overall strategy and the recognition that the space domain is a critical domain, in and of itself, but…
The federal government spent nearly $10 billion placing more than 100,000 federal workers on paid administrative leave for extended periods last year, a sixfold increase from two years prior driven largely by the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program aimed at encouraging feds to quit public service.A new report from the…
The Air Force spent 45 years without warrant officers, the last one retiring in 1980 and the ranks disappearing from an Air Force that decided senior NCOs and commissioned officers could cover the same ground. That changed in February 2024, when then-Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announced that…
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force Test Center is prepared to keep up with the Pentagon’s calls to buy, develop, test, and field technology quickly—but safety remains the top priority, the center’s commander said. “We always want to proceed safely forward. The work that we do, as I’ve noted, is, can be…
President Donald Trump promised a swift end to his war in Iran during a Wednesday-night speech that didn’t describe what military objectives his administration is pursuing nor what it wants from the Iranian government.Speaking during the fifth week of Operation Epic Fury, Trump made no mention of thousands of soldiers…
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Artificial intelligence is widely expected to revolutionize intelligence-gathering, enabling faster, cheaper and more scalable collection of information. But a new analysis suggests the technology may also spur a return to some of espionage’s oldest methods.A recent article in Studies in Intelligence, the CIA-backed academic journal, argues that as AI degrades the reliability…
California wildlife officers arrested four men on March 13 following a 3-year poaching investigation that uncovered close to 30 deer allegedly taken across multiple counties, some out of season, some with spotlights, and some with fraudulent tags, according to a statement from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.Investigators say…
This is going to be a sort of ridiculous apples-to-oranges analogy, but hear me out: You probably wouldn’t put out a thick-necked, ears-pinned, posturing buck decoy in the beginning of September. Sure, you might lure in a moody fighter to scrap, but mostly you wouldn’t because the timing wouldn’t be…
Space Force guardians are supporting NASA’s first crewed launch to the moon in more than 50 years by forecasting the weather and monitoring security, and, in an emergency, would make the call to abort Wednesday night’s historic mission.The service’s Space Launch Delta 45 is tracking by weather and rocket safety…
This is my wild game take on the classic “marry me” chicken. And while you might get a proposal out of this dish, it will definitely convince a reluctant significant other to tag along on a turkey hunt!Wild turkey brings a deeper, more savory flavor to this Tuscan-inspired sauce. I…
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The Navy doesn’t want robot boat prototypes, so it nixed its existing unmanned surface vehicle program in favor of an already-made-or-being-built strategy. That move rattled industry last week, but it could bring the Navy closer to getting what it says it needs in medium unmanned surface vessels. Wargames showed the larger…
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It’s the annual World Championship Squirrel Cook Off in Bentonville, Arkansas. Brent’s sitting down with…