New legislation in Congress calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide rural veterans with direct loans so they can build their own homes. U.S. House Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) introduced the Veterans Owner-Buider’s Rights Act on Monday to expand VA home loans…
Four U.S. Navy personnel and two sailors suffered non-life-threatening injuries after the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier suffered an undisclosed “mishap.” The Navy said in an X post Tuesday morning that issues affected the two-seater plane when it was trying to land on the ship off the coast of…
FAIRFORD, England (AP) — A surprise decision by the U.K.’s counterterror police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot targeting a U.S.-operated air force base in England has raised questions and concern from many, including U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of…
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Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Tuesday, with traders in Tehran exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar in a stark reflection of how the war in the Middle East has steadily eroded the Iranian economy. The latest decline came just 27 days after…
Classic deer cartridges didn’t cement their legacies overnight. Instead, decades of deer camps, proven track records, and crowded meat poles speak to why these rounds remain reliable favorites even today.If you’re the camp member that’s been using the same rifle since there was an East and West Berlin, you’re in…
BANGKOK (AP) — Taiwan’s defense minister said Tuesday that existing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, and that Taipei remains in talks with the U.S. over individual deals. A record $14 billion arms package to the island, however, remains stalled. The minister’s remarks come as concerns mount that President…
A few years ago, I spent my whole opening week in Kansas hunting a green soybean field full of browsing scars but didn’t see a single deer. When I finally stepped into the woods to find them, I found an area that looked like a feedlot—trampled to bare dirt with…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adjusting its guidance on prescribing psychotropic medications. The VA announced Monday that it would put in place guidance on informed consent which it said would increase transparency for veterans before they receive psychotropic medications, which include antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, anxioloyctics and opioids. Psychotropic…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: On June 9, 1844, a squad of 15 Texas Rangers was patrolling the hill country northwest of San Antonio, looking for Comanche raiders. This was during the years when Texas was still an independent country, eight years after the Alamo, still a year before it would enter…
Military horror movies have been sending troops into haunted trenches, cursed jungles and secret Nazi laboratories for decades. This Halloween, you can watch a surprising number of them without paying for another streaming subscription or dropping $5.99 on a rental. Military.com previously rounded up some of the best military horror…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting. Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey everybody,…
In the battle over public land access, the sides often seem to have heroic DIY hunters on one side vs villainous landowners scheming to keep us out on the other.But it’s hardly ever that simple. Take, for example, David Faubion, a Wyoming-based big game hunter who has been chartering a…
A new partnership between a European chipmaker and software firm aims to ease the difficult task of creating defense systems with encryption strong enough to withstand attacks by tomorrow’s quantum computers.SEALSQ, which specializes in “quantum-safe” chips, and Airmod, a French company that specializes in secure electronics for aerospace and drones,…
It happens: Someone questions your thought process, your math or your assumptions during a meeting or a presentation. You’ve put so much work into your message and the delivery. You checked the facts, and the numbers add up. So, what’s behind them questioning you?When someone challenges us — in private,…
Modular Driven Technologies, better known as MDT has recently unveiled a couple of new rifle and chassis accessories. MDT AP Throw Lever Head The MDT AP Throw Lever Head is a bipod accessory that allows shooters to quickly mount or dismount their A.R.M.S. #17-compatible bipods in one smooth motion. This…
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Western states have a mule deer problem. Deer populations are down across the board, leaving fish and game commissions grasping for means to mitigate the declines. Often, the only lever immediately within reach is a control on hunting pressure, which commissioners are reluctant to touch, as it obviously comes at…
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The U.S. military attacked three more alleged drug-trafficking boats off the Latin American coast, this time all three “were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking,” officials at Southern Command said in a statement and compilation video posted to social media Monday evening. “A…
The extra $250 a month never covered much. Not the higher utility bills when one parent was home alone managing everything. Not the emergency child care when deployment orders came through. Not the gas money for those late-night drives to care for a sick child when your spouse is 7,000…
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New legislation in Congress calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide rural…