Post from MilitaryByOwner Each time we make a move with the military, we have one huge decision to make: Do we live off base, or do we live on base? In my experience, there are 7 things to consider before living in military housing—both pros and cons. 1) You may give up some privacy. We can be a nosy community. Combine that with living a few feet from each other, and you soon have a community that knows everything about you, right down to your daily routine. But don’t be fooled; you’ll soon know just as much about your neighbors,…
An Illinois woman’s quest to enact new gun regulations through court action appears to have hit another brick wall, this time courtesy of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Shanice Mathews has been waging her court battle against the state of Illinois and the Illinois State Police for eight years now, with the help of Brady’s legal team at times. The hearing before the appellate court on Tuesday involved her fourth amended complaint seeking injunctive relief, and each and every time the courts have turned her away. Mathews is seeking a court-imposed order to FFL’s in…
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has removed U.S. forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base in Iraq, in a move that concludes the Operation Inherent Resolve mission in the country. The U.S. launched Operation Inherent Resolve in 2014 to defeat the terrorist group ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Some 2,000 Americans went to the country to participate in the mission, officials said at the time. The U.S. and its allies dismantled a brutal ISIS “caliphate” by training and advising over 250,000 local security forces, shifting the region from active conflict to stabilization while permanently anchoring Iraqi independence and regional security. In…
I grew up hunting and fishing with my father. There were times I was bored off my butt, sitting in a boat, saying nothing, just waiting for a fish to bite, but in hindsight, those are the moments that stick out to me now that Dad is gone. It was something we shared. But hunting was solitary. It might be freezing cold, and I might have gone into the woods with Dad, but it was the first taste of responsibility. I already knew the damage a .303 British round could inflict, at least to some…
Military spouses who are heading out to other Air Force installations can now seek help finding civilian jobs through the Department of the Air Force’s Global Military Spouse Connection program. The Air Force said in a release that it expanded the program to five additional destinations. The available bases are below: United States: Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; Goodfellow and Laughlin Air Force Bases, Texas; Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho; Travis Air Force Base, California; and Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Germany: Ramstein Air Base. United Kingdom: RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Feltwell. Japan: Kadena Air…
Active-duty military personnel and their spouses will soon benefit in their employment endeavors due to a new law going into effect Thursday. On Oct. 1 in Maryland, legislation known as the Modernizing Civil Relief for Service Members Act kicks in and allows active-duty service members and their spouses who relocate to the state pursuant to military orders to practice under a valid occupational or professional license issued by another state, provided they meet specified eligibility requirements and remain in good standing with their licensing authority. The bill, signed into law May 26 by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, aims to reduce…
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A lot of people in the military have some form of knowledge when it comes to brewing alcohol or crafting coffee. However, learning how to make that habit viable is another factor altogether. A new nonprofit organization is trying to make that process easier for veterans by helping them form connections, reach customers and understand an industry that can be difficult for newcomers to enter. The Coalition to Represent American Flavor & Tradition, known as CRAFT, supports veteran-owned, veteran-founded businesses that are parallel with military-friendly entrepreneurs across the beverage industry. The nonprofit launched a little under a year ago and…
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I won’t lie and pretend I don’t think about hearing a bump in the night, then sweeping the house like I’m a member of DevGru looking for Osama bin Laden. I like to wargame out possibilities, and considering my wife and I sleep in our bedroom on one side of the house, and the kids are on the other end, I’ll probably do that if we have to. Otherwise, I’d mostly just hunker down in the bedroom to keep my wife safe. But that bedroom door is, as they say, there for your protection, not…
New York’s restrictive gun laws are supposed to make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, for prohibited persons to get ahold of a gun, but in reality it’s the law-abiding who are really impacted. Take this disturbing case out of New York City, where a 14-year-old is facing charges after allegedly pistol-whipping and sexually assaulting a woman who was making deliveries in an inside a New York City Housing Authority complex earlier this month. The 37-year-old woman was hit in the face with a black and silver gun and sexually assaulted inside the Berry Houses near…
I’m a pretty regular user of AI. I have profound concerns about where the technology will go without guardrails, and I get more than a little worried about some of the more concerning cases of what some AIs do when, I guess, they’re bored, but the truth is that it’s a useful tool. It’s just one that needs to be handled responsibly, like a firearm. Strangely, I think Everytown agrees with me.The difference is that I want to actually use AI responsibly. They want to attack it as the source of the problem.This white paper…
If you are within the blast radius of a modern day nuclear weapon, you are pretty much dead on impact. There is no amount of prepping or body armor that will save you. Your bunker will probably prove useless as well considering there will be little to no warning. Also, it will probably come in the dead of night for the West coast. One long-term, high ranking, retired veteran told me, “Everything stays still at night; the targets stay still. Also, it’s daytime over there while we sleep.” While many preppers are preparing to survive a nuclear strike, I think…
A Connecticut man is facing criminal charges after he shot and killed a black bear earlier this month, and the outcome of his case may hinge on whether his chickens are considered livestock or pets. The 39-year-old was charged with illegal taking of a black bear after it broke into a chicken run and ate some of his flock. The chicken owner said he actually saw the bear chowing down on one of his birds before he shot it. He also believes the same bear killed his goats back in August, and apparently realized this…
There’s something inherently wrong about lifetime gun bans for misdemeanors.Even if you think that lifetime gun bans are warranted for criminal behavior, why a misdemeanor of any kind? It would seem to me that if the behavior was so bad that it warranted a lifetime suspension of a civil liberty, it should be severe enough to be a felony in the first place. Since felons already have a lifetime ban that only just now has a pathway for being lifted, that seems like an easy fix. The problem is that anti-gunners have been doing more…
This morning, my wife sent me a story. There was a “mass shooting” with no fatalities in Macon, Georgia. We don’t live particularly close to Macon, about an hour and a half to two hours, depending on which of us is driving. She sent it to me, though, because it happened pretty much in front of the office of a doctor my daughter sees regularly. And it was a serious shooting, with 12 people injured, two critically.I might have written about it from the start, but something jumped out at me in the reporting. It…
A jailed veteran has accused a veterans affairs coordinator of stealing approximately $65,000 from her while she was incarcerated. The unnamed victim allegedly hired Jessica McVay, a veterans affairs coordinator at the public defender’s office, to handle financial administration like paying her bills while she was in Manatee County Jail, according to local ABC affiliate WWSB in Sarasota, Fla. Police claim that the 48-year-old McVay accessed bank accounts, opened new credit cards and transferred the veteran’s money into her own account. Jessica McVay (Image provided by Sarasota Police Department) “Jessica McVay took it upon herself while this victim was in…
Federal law prohibits any government agency from compiling a registry of gun owners and the firearms they own, but one Second Amendment group and multiple members of Congress say the ATF has done exactly that. Rep. Michael Cloud sent a letter to President Donald Trump this week urging the administration to take action and destroy more than a billion firearm records the ATF has obtained from firearm dealers that have gone out of business, arguing that the retention of these records has resulted in a searchable registry of gun owners in violation of federal law. Gun…
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 Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the $14 billion arms deal after that meeting. “As for arms sales, we are…
