Military pay raises of up to 7%, faster health care for transitioning service members and several reforms affecting the U.S. Air Force Academy are one step closer to becoming law after the House of Representatives approved its version of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday. The…
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FARNBOROUGH, UK—The first robot wingman to fly with U.S. aircraft in a major multi-national exercise wasn’t among the ones that the Air Force picked for initial-production contracts last month. Instead, it was the MQ-28 Ghost Bat, which is being developed by Boeing for the Australian Royal Air Force—and a company…
After just a few months of content releases, Marathon is finally taking the plunge and releasing a limited-time PvE mode called Vault Breaker. Trading intense PvP extraction for a more focused roguelite loop, between July 21st and August 4th, we are going to get to see a whole different side…
What Is DEFCON? DEFCON, short for Defense Readiness Condition or simply Defense Condition, is the U.S. military’s ranking system for defense readiness for a potential nuclear attack. The system of ranking the perceived threat to national security originated during the Cold War, when fear of communism was at a high.…
Most transitioning service members treat LinkedIn like a second resume: Upload a headshot, job title, rating, MOS, AFSC, or designator, write the About section, copy-paste the Experience section. Done. Except that’s not how LinkedIn was designed to be used. It’s not a copy of your resume or a billboard for…
A VA research team in Madison, Wisconsin, has identified a protein that plays a central role in driving melanoma growth, finding that genetically silencing it dramatically slows how quickly the cancer spreads and survives. The findings, published in the journal Cancers in February 2026, open a potentially new treatment pathway…
Due to poor air quality from forest fires, much of the United States has been under a Code Red alert this summer. You can find out when your area is affected by the seasonal smoke spreading with the wind at the website AirNow.gov. When the smoke is bad enough to…
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Enlisted Marine Corps ranks are broken down into three levels: Junior enlisted (E-1 through E-3) Noncommissioned officers (E-4 and E-5) Staff noncommissioned officers (E-6 through E-9) As a Marine moves up the ladder, his or her responsibility and contribution to the mission increases. This also means that those who have…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has detailed four major investments that the state of California is making to improve the lives of veterans, in areas including veteran benefits, housing and legal assistance. California, the country’s most populous state, holds one of the largest raw populations of veterans in the U.S. with…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is attending the dignified transfer Wednesday of four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East. Trump will be at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware when the remains of the troops killed in action are returned to their families, the White House said.…
Posted on July 1, 2026 (July 1, 2026) by Daniel Mitchell When it comes to hunting elk, moose, bear, or other large animals, choosing the right rifle is critical. The terrain, distance, and toughness of your prey all demand a firearm that delivers power, precision, and reliability. Whether you’re chasing…
San Diego, California is home to several military bases including Naval Base San Diego, Naval Base Coronado, Marine Corps Recruiting Depot San Diego, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Whether you’re stationed at one of the military installations in San Diego or you and your…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is rolling out sweeping security measures for the upcoming NATO summit, deploying tens of thousands of police and placing air defenses on high alert, while banning public gatherings and imposing controversial restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly. That’s meant to safeguard the summit, but…
Exercise Balikatan was “a real strategic victory” that showed how far the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment has come, its commander said.“There’s a lot more growth to happen, there’s a lot more work. But this was a pretty good year to kind of showcase something that went from concept to a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks posed by UFOs. Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of…
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—On rifle ranges inside a volcanic crater, and in an urban training facility built to train for deployments to Iraq, Marines from several different countries spent the weekend alongside their U.S. counterparts, shooting rifles, clearing rooms, and practicing other tactical skills they’ll need if called to war.The…
While the nation pauses to celebrate its historic 250th birthday on July 4, it’s likely Eric Dolash will be busy setting up flagpoles, raising Old Glory in a veteran’s front yard. Dolash is on a mission to erect flagpoles for veterans across Iowa. In the past five years, Dolash has…
For most of my bowhunting career, I’ve carried a compound bow. But the very first time I toted a bow to the whitetail woods, I carried a borrowed Bear recurve. No deer were harmed on that first day, but I’ll never forget the feeling of walking into the woods with…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new Defense Policy Board includes former elected officials, conservative policy figures, defense technology investors, China hawks, nuclear policy specialists and longtime Republican operatives. The Defense Policy Board was established in 1985 to provide independent strategic advice to the defense secretary, deputy secretary and undersecretary for policy.…
00:00:04 Speaker 1: The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to areas that were under Confederate control. It really didn’t free the slaves anywhere where the United States at that point had any jurisdiction to free the slaves. So, you know, it is more of a diplomatic kind of psychological document. But…
A U.S.-brokered agreement between Israel and Lebanon is being presented as a step toward ending months of war. It may also leave the hardest facts unresolved: Israeli forces remain on Lebanese territory, many in Lebanon have been killed or displaced, and Lebanon is being asked to disarm Hezbollah before Israel…
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