The carrier USS George Washington will shift homeports in 2024, replacing the USS Ronald Reagan in Yokosuka, Japan. The shift was announced April 28 by Commander Naval Air Forces as the Washington nears the end of its mid-life refueling and complex overhaul at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, where the carrier has been a fixture since 2017. This will mark the second time the Washington has been homeported in Japan, having arrived in 2008 as the first nuclear aircraft carrier to be deployed to Japan before it was relieved by the Reagan in 2015. “The United States values Japan’s contributions…

Following a highly competitive and rigorous qualification, FN America, LLC is pleased to announce that the FN 509 MRD-LE has been chosen by the Los Angeles Police Department as their new duty pistol. The FN 509 is a capable and versatile handgun platform that delivers rapid, precision fire in any environment. Officers training on marksmanship, tactical maneuvers and precision target engagements now have a more accurate and reliable sidearm, proven by the LAPD to perform with a wide variety of duty-rated handgun optics and ammunition.(Photo courtesy of FN America)“The Los Angeles Police Department is one of the largest and most…

A Texas judge rejected a motion Wednesday to grant Army Sgt. Daniel Perry a new trial after he was found guilty last month of killing a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, Garrett Foster, during an Austin Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. The decision comes as the Army is in the process of pushing Perry out of the service. “Sgt. Perry’s unit has initiated an administrative separation under Army Regulation 635-200 due to his conviction,” a spokesperson from the 11th Airborne Division – Perry’s unit – told Military.com in a statement. “In the interim, the unit is changing his duty status…

The pump action shotgun remains an iconic American firearm, right up there with a Colt Single Action Army and a Winchester lever gun. Despite cut rate instructors declaring it dead over the last 20 years, it continues to sell out of stores as fast as makers can produce them. When I was talking to an executive from one of the major manufacturers a couple of weeks ago, he told me that they could not take another order for the next six months and still couldn’t make enough to keep up with the orders they have. So, to paraphrase Mark Twain,…

So many online ammo websites, right? Find out the best places to buy ammunition online from our own positive experiences and fails. .357 Magnum, anyone? (I’ll answer for you: yes, please!) We’ll also cover recommended brands, types of bullets to buy, what is a “good” price, and unfortunately…restrictions based on your state. Different Bullet Tips (L TO R: FMJ, Soft, Open, Ballistic) May 2023 Update: Ammo prices are pretty stabilitized (and even dropping) for popular cartridges. AAC, Blazer, & PMC seem to be the most in-stock varieties. Steel Ammo Here’s some stuff that’s in stock but apologies in advance if…

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we talked about the Top 3 Things to Do To Easily Carry. If you happened to miss last week’s article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. For this week’s article, I wanted to focus on a few small items to consider when carrying concealed regularly. There have been a few questions lately about what’s the best system to carry with and what things should be checked regularly if you carry a concealed handgun every day. Let’s take a closer look at what are some…

Air Force officials are investigating staff at day-care centers at Hill Air Force Base in Utah after allegations of child abuse surfaced. Salt Lake City’s Fox 13 was the first to report that 37 kids may have been abused and that 12 child development center staff members were being investigated, according to a briefing the base’s commander, Col. Jeffrey G. Holland, gave families on Tuesday. Kendahl Johnson, a spokesperson for the 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, told Military.com in an emailed statement that the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations is examining the allegations. Read Next: ‘We’re at the…

Mossberg’s 940 Pro Field is one of the models that evolved from the 2020 introduction of the 940 JM Pro. Designed in partnership with World Champion Jerry Miculek, the new 940 is a fast-cycling shotgun built to win competitions. The 940 gas system is a new design to speed up cycling and make it more reliable. Its finish repels carbon build-up for longer maintenance intervals, too. (Mossberg asserts as many as 1,500 rounds can be fired between cleanings.)The stock is user-adjustable for length-of-pull (from 13 inches to 14¼ inches), drop at comb and cast using incremental shims. Aggressive texturing that…

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a lot of us watched what followed. The news wasn’t good, of course, but then we saw and heard about officials confiscating guns in a supposed effort to curb the violence that was supposedly raging across the city. Gun rights didn’t matter, apparently. Since then, a lot of states have passed laws preventing such things from happening there. Surprisingly, Alaska wasn’t one of those states. Then we saw the pandemic when a lot of locales decide that gun rights didn’t really matter, that they could and should shut down gun stores. Again, a lot…

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The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to struggle to protect whistleblowers in its ranks, with two-thirds of whistleblowers reporting allegations of retaliation from 2018 to 2022, the Government Accountability Office has found. Overall, allegations of retaliation against all federal whistleblowers declined from 2018 to 2022, but cases at the VA involving retaliation rose during the time frame, according to a GAO briefing to members of Congress in February that was released Wednesday. The watchdog agency found that VA cases alleging whistleblower retaliation or other prohibited practices make up more than a third of the workload of the Office of Special…

The Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) Program is a prototyping effort to develop squad-level small arms for the U.S. Army. NGSW consists of a Rifle (NGSW-R), Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR), a 6.8mm cartridge and a shared Fire Control (NGSW-FC). The NGSW-R aims to replace the M4A1, and the NGSW-AR would supplant the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW).When used in SIG Sauer’s NGSW-AR light machine gun, the 6.8x51mm round maintains the use of disintegrating links for feeding. Each belt includes a spoon, which can be fed and pulled through the feed tray, eliminating the need to open the cover. This makes loading…