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The United States once planned to drop more than 1,000 bomb-carrying bats over Japanese cities. A psychologist taught pigeons to guide missiles. Cold War troops were issued a recoilless weapon capable of launching a nuclear warhead. British engineers built a giant pair of rocket-powered wheels stuffed with explosives and expected the contraption to drive itself up a beach. These weren’t concepts that lived only on paper. Every weapon on this list reached at least the prototype or testing stage. Several entered military service, and some were used in combat. Here are 15 of the strangest weapons military engineers actually built.…
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Major Andrés H. Cáceres-Solari arrived at NATO’s Joint Force Command Brunssum in the Netherlands in the summer of 2013 after a successful company command in Japan. By the time he left two years later, he had lost his security clearance, faced a Board of Inquiry, and was on a path that ended with his involuntary separation from the Marine Corps. In his recently published book, “Criminal Negligence in Command,” Cáceres-Solari says the turning point came after he repeatedly raised concerns about emerging threats that were being ignored by the highest officers in the NATO command. Those concerns included indicators of…
We’re smack dab in the middle of National Shooting Sports Month, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife is celebrating in a big way on Saturday. The department is waiving all of the fees for using public ranges tomorrow, and at two of the state-operated ranges new shooters and would-be gun owners will be able to get some free hands-on instruction. From 10 AM to 2 PM at the Delaware Wildlife Area range in Ashley and the Spring Valley Wildlife Area range in Waynesville, staff will be on hand to give folks some…
Receiving the Medal of Honor requires the recipient to commit to an action that risks their life “above and beyond the call of duty.” This means no one involved would blame the person for not performing the action. Sometimes, this means taking on an enemy while outnumbered; sometimes, it means rescuing a battle buddy from certain death. For U.S. Army Staff Sgt. George Hall, it meant both — only, the person he rescued was himself, and he had to cut off his own leg to do it. George John Hall was a native of Massachusetts who joined the Army long…
U.S. Air Force Airmen recently rescued a five-person Navy crew following what officials described as an “aircraft mishap.” The incident occurred Aug. 10 and involved the deployment of two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters to rescue five Navy personnel near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., according to a release issued Aug. 14. The deployment involved airmen from the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), assigned to the 355th Wing but geographically located at Nellis Air Force Base, and the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron (88 TES). U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8,…
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Army veteran Alan Bonnin would be alive today if not for an aggressive three-year fight with asbestos-causing mesothelioma that ultimately took his life. The hardworking husband, father and retired soldier never questioned his work as a longtime mechanic and HVAC technician after leaving the armed forces. His specialty of working on brakes and then later for 30 years at a heating and cooling company is believed to be how he contracted the cancer from the hidden asbestos risk he faced on the job. “I never thought that I would be affected by something like mesothelioma,” Bonnin said in a testimonial…
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More than 100 students from Crossroads Elementary and Quantico Middle High School ran, pushed and planked their way through the first Presidential Fitness Test held on a military installation April 12 at Butler Stadium. Fifteen kids earned the top Presidential Fitness Award. Nineteen more took home the National Physical Fitness Award. Every participant left with a certificate and a clear message: fitness starts young and matters for life. “This was the kickoff,” said Steve Simmons, Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Military Community and Family Policy. You kids are setting an example for your peers, the youth, and the rest…
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Maj. Erika B. Page, an emergency medicine physician with the Arizona Army National Guard, was named the U.S. Army honoree for the 2026 Hero of Military Medicine Award on May 7 at the Washington National Cathedral. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, which sponsors the annual award, recognized Page for her medical leadership during combat operations and humanitarian service. Page deployed to the Middle East in late September 2023 with the 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment, an Arizona Guard unit known as the Bushmasters. Serving as the task force surgeon in support of Operation Spartan…
Back in December, I wrote about a holster protecting a gun from a vehicle fire. That holster, made by Falco, introduced me to the company and the fact that they use heavy-duty leather for many of their offerings. But they also use kydex for some products, which has some advantages, too. Leather is sexier, in my book, but kydex is lighter and thinner.So what do you do? Well, hybrids exist that use both, and Falco has a few already, but in a press release, they announced four more offerings.FALCO® Holsters is proud to announce the…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey signed a sweeping gun control ordinance on Wednesday that bans semiautomatic rifles classified as “assault-style weapons,” magazines holding more than a state-set capacity, and unserialized firearms, and that the City of Minneapolis has limited authority to actually enforce. The Minneapolis “Safe Firearms Act” was passed unanimously by the City Council the previous week. It now sits in legal territory that has already produced one active lawsuit in a neighboring Minnesota city and is poised to generate another. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, which filed suit against a similar St. Paul ordinance last fall and recently launched…
