The Marine Corps has awarded a $19 million contract for 10 Tempest counter-drone vehicles that are deliberately built to shoot and then leave. The system fires AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles at Class 2 and Class 3 drones, then withdraws while the missiles are still in flight so the crew spends as little time as possible in the kill zone. A Pentagon contract announcement dated August 11 confirmed the award to Vertex Modernization and Sustainment, a V2X company based in Indianapolis. The deal covers the vehicles plus software, spare parts, training, and support services. Work is scheduled to run through August…
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTen minutes is not a scenario. It is a kitchen fire, a gas leak, a fast-moving wildfire, a chemical spill on the nearby rail line, or a deputy pounding on your door, screaming for you to go—and go now! You get the warning, and the clock starts. What you carry out is whatever you can think of, find, and load in the precious little time you have. That is the problem. Most people don’t struggle from a lack of gear and supplies to pack. Most people struggle with indecision about what to bring. They…
I don’t expect much from the BBC. A government-funded “news” organization answering to an anti-gun government? Please, spare me.However, that doesn’t mean I give them a pass when they piss me off with their anti-gun stupidity. Far from it, actually, and boy did they find a way to roll in the stupid, then set themselves on fire so it stinks up the entire internet. As Thailand has dominated a lot of firearm-related news from the mainstream media, it’s safe to say that a lot of people figure the country has a problem. And, considering they’re…
A top U.S. admiral has acknowledged there have been mental health issues aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the vessel. U.S. Central Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said on X on Sunday that while he believed the boat had “among the lowest number of cases related to mental health” not everything was “perfect.” His response comes amid scrutiny of the duration of the vessel’s deployment, while other military officials and even President Donald Trump himself have shunned criticism—with the president telling reporters the deployment is “not nearly long enough” “Here’s an important fact: Of the U.S.…
Oh, Australia.Once a place I wanted to live in, and not just because the male-to-female ratio was attractive to me at the time. I mean, it’s what I think of as a beautiful place, and I still want to visit, even if literally everything wants to kill me. I mean, it’s not that different from visiting my in-laws right after my wife and I got together, if we’re being honest. But as far as living there? There’s no way that would now, and part of that is the gun laws. While it’s a different country with…
The Navy has awarded a $22.9 billion contract to Raytheon to develop Tomahawk missiles. The U.S. has used missiles like these, which are capable of flying low to the ground to evade detection and can carry 1,000-pound conventional warheads to accurately strike targets up to 1,000 to 1,500 miles away, since 1991. The contracts come amid reports of potential weapons shortages in the U.S. Hung Cao, the acting secretary of the Navy, said in prepared remarks that the “landmark investment” with the company will accelerate the development of the missiles “at unprecedented speed.” Exact specifics regarding the details of the…
The New York Times has it in for 2A influencer and congressional candidate Brandon Herrera. Over the past few days opinion writer Michelle Goldberg devoted an entire column to Herrera’s campaign, and over the weekend the news side of the paper ran a lengthy piece, with both the opinion and straight news coverage focusing on some of the comments that Herrera has made during his time as one of the most popular GunTubers around. Herrera’s Republican opponent in both 2024 and 2026 did most of the legwork for the hit pieces from the Times. Former…
Just when I thought I’d heard it all. I’ve spent years listening to military job seekers navigate a brutal civilian job market: competing against thousands of applicants for a single opening, being told they’re overqualified, getting ghosted by employers deep into the interview process. These are painful but familiar stories. What I’m hearing now is different. Today, candidates are telling me that the interviews themselves are going sideways, and it’s the interviewer who’s behaving badly. Two Stories Worth Sharing Consider this: A young female naval officer interviews with a prominent Wall Street investment firm. She’s qualified by every measurable standard.…
More than 20 years before Gene Roddenberry sent the USS Enterprise across the galaxy, he was trying to keep a B-17 from running off an island runway in the South Pacific. On Aug. 2, 1943, Roddenberry was piloting Yankee Doodle during a takeoff from Espiritu Santo when the bomber failed to build enough speed. He aborted, but the B-17 ran off the runway and broke apart in the jungle. Two crew members died. Roddenberry survived. He went on to create Star Trek, which turns 60 on Sept. 8, 2026. His path from the military to science fiction was unusual, but…
Giffords and other gun control organizations like to say that they don’t want to destroy the Second Amendment. They claim to respect your right to keep and bear arms. They just want some “common sense” regulations that will make the world safer for little kittens and puppies. Sure, their founder once told a Time reporter, “No more guns,” but that didn’t count. Nope, they just want a few regulations and nothing more, and their latest endorsement proves their sincerity.We’re proud to endorse Dr. @AbdulElSayed for the US Senate in Michigan!Dr. El-Sayed understands that America’s gun violence crisis…
An Air Force reservist who produces early-morning television out of Kentucky has received a regional Emmy Award for her team’s coverage of a deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville. Staff Sgt. Tabitha Awoniyi, a member of the commander’s support staff with the 442nd Force Support Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, received the award July 25 as part of WLKY-TV’s morning news team. The news team won the Morning, Daytime, or Weekend Newscast Category for its coverage of the Nov. 4, 2025, crash of UPS flight 2976, according to a 442nd Fighter Wing news release. When she is…
A Marine Corps Veteran living in Arizona was prepared to give up his three elderly dogs that had been with his family for over 10 years after he was left homeless and unable to transition them to a new place. An employee at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control helped Rick Dennis find housing where all four of them could remain together. Through the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dennis found alternative means of living. The problem was that the housing was unable to accommodate the animals. With this in mind, the Marine veteran opted to live out of his car…
A veteran takes a lump-sum payment on the way out of the military and files for disability years later. They then move on with life. Eventually, a letter arrives from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The monthly disability check, it says, will not be coming. Not reduced, mind you. Withheld entirely, month after month, until the government recovers separation pay it handed the veteran years or even decades earlier. That is the practice two U.S. senators are now trying to stop. How they would stop it says a lot about what kind of relief disabled veterans might see. A Democrat…
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Tatyana Jordan breathed a sigh of relief, maybe her biggest, as she learned the outcome of a months-long internal Army investigation. Military.com was the first to report how Jordan, 30, of Columbia, S.C., alleged that her superior made derogatory and racist remarks toward her in 2025 as she worked at Fort Jackson. Jordan, a Black female U.S. Army captain and Adjutant General (AG) officer, came to the Chaplain School in January 2025 on active duty and served as a force management officer. She claimed that on Aug. 13, 2025, her supervisor, Chaplain Maj. Edward Blackledge, purportedly made a remark involving…
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