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Female sailors shopping for new Service Khakis can now get something that has long been missing from the women’s version of the uniform: usable back pockets. The Navy Exchange Service Command announced Aug. 10 that newly redesigned women’s Service Khaki slacks are now available with two back welt pockets and a new sizing system meant to help sailors get a better fit with fewer alterations. The changes came directly from sailor feedback. For a uniform item sailors may wear throughout much of their careers, the update is a small but highly visible part of a larger Navy effort to rethink…
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For millions of Americans, the Battle of Mogadishu looks like Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. The first Green Berets sent into Afghanistan after 9/11 ride into battle with the faces of Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. The raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been reconstructed repeatedly on film and television. A new Paramount+ documentary series, Special Ops: True, which began streaming Aug. 4, features firsthand accounts from Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Green Berets and other veterans involved in U.S. special operations stretching from Panama to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. All 20 episodes across two seasons are available…
Hearing is important. While people have learned to adapt to life without it, they’ve also learned to adapt to living without being able to move any of their limbs. That doesn’t mean mobility is irrelevant. Yet, despite there being a century-old device that can protect that hearing, a group of doctors in California would much rather their patients go deaf than own a suppressor. I honestly wish I was making this up, but I’m not.The California Medical Association would rather support gun control than, you know, actual health.Suppressors remain prohibited in Hawaii, Illinois, New York,…
German U-boats operated along the American East Coast in the first half of 1942 with something close to impunity. Merchant ships loaded with fuel and supplies bound for the war in Europe were being torpedoed within sight of beachgoers in New Jersey and the Carolinas. The Navy, still ramping up for a two-ocean war, didn’t have anywhere near enough destroyers, patrol craft or aircraft to cover the entire coastline. Into that gap sailed some of the least likely combatants of the Second World War: weekend yachtsmen, Boston lawyers, Boy Scouts and, according to more than one account, a handful of…
While most knife makers set out to make reliable products, there’s a handful who want to make something with an everlasting touch of WOW. In 1996, Bill McHenry and Jason Williams filed a patent for something called a “crossbar lock.” In 1999, it debuted through Benchmade Knives as the Axis lock. Thirty years later, every knife manufacturer making folding knives on planet Earth uses some iteration of it. Earlier this summer, Schwarz Knives announced its first folding knife, the Enduro. As appealing as the knife looked, the materials used, being handmade, and Schwarz’s new take on the crossbar lock really…
The facelifted 2026 Land Rover Defender 110 is, undoubtedly, a very cool SUV. It manages the classic Land Rover trick of being both incredibly capable off-road and also very nice to drive around town. People lament the death of the old Land Rover Defender (some so much they started a car company about it), but nostalgia is overrated. The L663 Defender (as the current generation of Defender is known internally at Land Rover and to Land Rover nerds) looks super-rugged while remaining a modern luxury vehicle. Is it luxurious enough to justify asking prices that can very easily crest six…
We can debate what the worst crime in the world is, but to me, anyone who hurts a child is going to be at the top of the list. The worst the hurt, the worse they are in my book. I get that some people out there think that the issue is how we treat these individuals, but I honestly don’t care. Pedos deserve the wood chipper set on slow, in my not-so-humble opinion. Look, when the hardened felons in prison also despise someone the rest of society hates, you know you’re dealing with the…
Coast Guard forces have suspended a search some ten days after a vessel with nine people on board went missing in the Hall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). USCG and Sector Guam had received news of the 20-foot skiff on July 31 as it was scheduled to return to Ruo Island, some 625 miles southeast of Guam, on July 30, but did not do so. After a ten-day search which involved numerous partners and covered 250,000 square nautical miles and more than 31 search patterns, the USCG stopped the search. “We have made the difficult decision to suspend our…
Less than a month after West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey started investigating several companies for allegedly discriminating against an in-state ammunition manufacturer, the AG says he’s received pledges from the firms that they will treat lawful firearm commerce the same as any other industry. As we reported in mid-July, Kent Cartridge Company said it was denied services by two payment processing firms because of the products it makes. McCuskey started investigating Bill.com and Ramp after representatives told KCC that they couldn’t use their services “due to compliance and underwriting restrictions,” and “due to restrictions from…
A former U.S. Marine whose family said just days ago that he was near death in a Russian hospital has been freed after more than four years in custody and is on his way to a military hospital in Texas. Robert Gilman, 32, was released after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon on humanitarian grounds, U.S. officials told Reuters. He was being flown out of Russia on a State Department plane, and officials said he was walking and talking, a marked change from the condition his advocates had described only a week earlier. His family said he had been…
Michigan’s Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate isn’t making gun control a big part of his campaign, but Abdul El-Sayed has some pretty strong feelings about our right to keep and bear arms. As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports, El-Sayed has taken down dozens of videos he posted on YouTube over the last few years because his comments won’t play well with Michigan voters. In an April 2023 video, for instance, El-Sayed took aim at the Second Amendment. Though the video has since been made private, a transcript is still available.Folks who believe in “gun rights,” they…
Sailors and Marines can no longer use anonymous reports of prohibited discrimination or discriminatory harassment to open a Military Equal Opportunity complaint, making the Department of the Navy the latest military department to implement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to replace anonymous complaints with confidential reporting. The change took effect immediately under an Aug. 7 Navy message applying to both the Navy and Marine Corps. Commanders may still act on information contained in an anonymous report, but the allegation will no longer be processed as a Military Equal Opportunity, or MEO, complaint. The policy does not end anonymous reporting for…
Nakia Smith isn’t exactly a household name, even in Chicago, but his criminal case has garnered quite a bit of attention in the local press thanks to former Education Secretary Arne Duncan going to bat for the felon charged with armed habitual criminal, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after he brought a loaded pistol to a Chicago police station. Smith, who was working as an anti-violence volunteer at the time of his arrest, claims that he was trying to turn in the pistol to police…
A U.S. Army veteran has been convicted of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of over $170,000 in caregiver benefit payments. A federal jury found James Bradford, 49, of Kansas, guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government and one count of theft of public money, property or records, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Kansas. The office said that from August 2014 to July 2023, Bradford and his caregiver provided false and fraudulent statements concerning the level of care he needed in order to claim assistance from the Program…
The best hunting pants are not just about the camo. A great pair of hunting pants matches the environment in which you choose to pursue wild game. Every hunt has different demands. Terrain, weather, activity level, and the game itself all come into play when selecting your next pair. During the last hunting season, GearJunkie contributors Morgan Nowels and Sean McCoy worked to expand this guide by testing six sets of hunting pants to see how they stacked up against time-tested favorites. After chasing whitetail deer in Tennessee and Oklahoma, elk in Colorado, coyotes in Wyoming, and upland birds in…
A Chinese national is facing up to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to attempting to obtain U.S. military technology. Dingwei Chen, 29, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, pleaded guilty Aug. 10 in federal court in Salt Lake City to violating the Arms Export Control Act, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). U.S. District Judge David Sam accepted Chen’s guilty plea and scheduled sentencing for Oct 19. Chen faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Authorities said that Chen attempted to purchase military-grade satellite modems and radios manufactured for the U.S. military by…
The public comment period on the almost three dozen proposed rule changes released by the ATF earlier this year is now closed, and the agency is wading through the thousands of submissions before releasing its final rules in (hopefully) a few months. ATF Director Robert Cekada has worked to bust the myths about some of the proposed rules that have been peddled by gun control groups and anti-gun politicians, but the misinformation campaign continues even now that the public comment period is over. New York Attorney General Letitia James wants to prevent the federal government…
