Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce Wednesday that he will cut general and admiral positions across the military by 20%, effectively doubling the reduction he ordered last year as part of a broader plan to reshape the senior ranks by Jan. 1, 2027. Hegseth is scheduled to lay out the plan during a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, according to Pentagon officials cited by several news outlets, including Fox News, which first reported it. Quantico is the same site where the secretary gathered the United States’ highest ranking generals and admirals…
Being a police officer is tough. I wouldn’t do it for three times the top-end pay for an officer, much less what they actually get paid. Growing up around the profession, I saw just what kind of toll it could take on a person, and that’s without losing a number of your colleagues in a single day. Just one was enough to rattle a lot of police officers’ families deeply. Officers in Charlotte, NC, dealt with that back in 2024 when four of their colleagues were gunned down by a convicted felon armed with a…
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident that saw five men arrested near a U.S.-run military air base in England late at night, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday. Burnham said U.K. and U.S. officials are carrying out a “complex and serious” investigation into how and why five men and three vans were near the perimeter of RAF Fairford, a base that has been used by American bombers striking Iran during this year’s war. Five British men in their 20s were arrested Sunday on suspicion of explosives offenses and planning an…
Can you be convicted of a crime when you act in self-defense but an errant shot strikes a home or another person? The answer may vary from state to state, and even from case to case, as the Ohio Supreme Court recently decided. This particular case involves a man named Timothy Bradley, who was originally charged with a variety of crimes after shooting a contractor named Zachary Burch at Bradley’s home in 2024. Bradley had hired, and then fired Burch, and the pair started arguing when Burch showed up to collect his tools. Video and audio…
Separating from the military sets off a series of financial deadlines that don’t run on the same schedule, and most of them aren’t automatic. Health coverage, life insurance, Department of Veterans Affairs disability filing and retirement account decisions all run on their own separate clocks, and missing any one of them can mean a gap in coverage or a benefit that closes for good. Here’s how the sequence goes, from before separation through the end of the first year. Before Separation: 90 to 180 Days Out The window to start planning opens well before your separation date. Veterans and service…
If you read my story about the Violence Policy Center’s so-called study, you had to know that sooner or later, the media would get hold of it. While I kind of expected the New York Times or someone to get hold of it and make a thing of it, I still knew someone would if they declined. And, sure enough, someone has.There’s this report out of South Carolina, and we need to talk about it.South Carolina’s rate of women killed by men remained above the national average in 2024, according to a nationwide study highlighted…
The U.S. Marine Corps is following the Department of Defense (DOD) and Air Force, issuing new deadlines for service members to revise their religious affiliation as part of a major shift in the U.S. Armed Forces that began months ago. On Tuesday, the Marine Corps published its own official Marine Corps Administrative Message (MARADMINS) implementing the policy change that will affect personnel. This MARADMIN “announces implementation of the revised Department of War Religious Affiliation Codes (RAC) and directs Marines to review and update their religious affiliation information.” Military.com was the first to report how DOD dramatically reduced its official number…
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…
Last week a Maryland rabbi won the ability to carry a firearm in his synagogue, despite Montgomery County’s ban on lawful carry in houses of worship. The injunction granted by a federal judge only applies to the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but there’s no shortage of rabbis around the country who want to do the same. In most states that’s not much of an issue. But even where carry bans aren’t in place, many rabbis are looking for training options, which is where Magen Am steps in. The self-defense organization recently hosted a five-day…
The Selective Service System has withdrawn the regulation intended to implement nationwide automatic draft registration, leaving the agency without a public implementation rule months before a congressionally mandated deadline. An official federal docket shows that the agency submitted the proposed rule March 30 and withdrew it July 23. The withdrawal does not repeal the automatic-registration requirement or activate a military draft. Congress enacted Section 535 through the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Donald Trump signed into law Dec. 18, 2025. The amendment takes effect one year after enactment, while the federal regulatory agenda lists Dec. 19,…
When most people picture an emergency stockpile, they imagine a basement lined with shelves, a spare bedroom packed floor to ceiling, or a garage full of five-gallon buckets. And if you’ve got that kind of room, great. But a lot of us don’t. If you live in a small house or apartment, you might have nothing more than a single closet to work with. Here’s the good news: it absolutely is. This is where microprepping comes in. Microprepping is all about squeezing a bunch of survival supplies into a tiny space by being organized, intentional, and clever about what you…
Minnesota isn’t as anti-gun as you might expect, but it’s not for lack of trying. Despite the best efforts of Democrats in the state, they haven’t been able to go as far as they’d like, and that bothers them. It bothers them a whole lot. So, they decided to shore up their arsenal of weapons for the next session, and that includes what one might call a poll.I wouldn’t, but they might.You see, the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services Office report that about three-quarters of respondents favor an assault weapon ban. But guess…
The Pentagon has invested $450 million into a company that develops tungsten, as part of a move anticipated to create 1,200 jobs. Tungsten is a dense, ultra-hard metal with the highest melting point of any element. It is used in critical components for missiles, munitions, aerospace, propulsion, naval, undersea, electronics, and industrial manufacturing applications. In a statement on Monday, the Department of Defense (DOD) said it would invest the money into U.S. company The Elmet Group to “strengthen domestic tungsten capacity, bolster U.S. industrial resilience and military readiness, and help secure an essential material for the defense industrial base.” “This…
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A Maryland man whose second-grade child brought a gun to school and shot himself in the finger was sentenced last week to six months of unsupervised probation, and gun control activists and politicians are highlighting the soft sentence to demand more restrictive gun storage laws. Those arguments ignore a couple of pertinent details which aren’t exactly helpful to their cause. For starters, Eashan Stefanski pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment, which comes with the potential for a five-year prison sentence. If the anti-gunners have a problem with the sentence that Stefanski actually received,…
For military families, travel isn’t always about getting away. Sometimes it’s driving across three states for a graduation. Sometimes it’s catching a last-minute flight home for the holidays. Sometimes it’s another PCS, another temporary hotel, another airport, another goodbye. And sometimes it’s simply trying to make the journey a little less stressful, if that’s even possible. I still think about the time I was flying home from Germany after the airport had been closed due to the weather. I had two kids under 3, eight bags, two car seats – and no husband because he’d slipped on the ice the…
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The Army is set to roll out a new fitness performance documentation mobile app this fall to streamline how Army Fitness Test results are recorded and entered into soldier’s official training records. The service said in a Sept. 9 statement that the new app, AFT Go, will allow soldiers to see their fitness test scores before they leave the physical training feed. The application aims to eliminate manual paperwork and data entry, per the service. It will allow individuals to view PT test schedules and results, see test participants, and check times when soldiers are scheduled to take or grade…
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A Memphis man who took part in a home invasion is now facing multiple charges after his accomplice was shot and killed by someone in the apartment they invaded.According to police in Memphis, Tennessee, Devonta Johnson and Zarian Sanders went to an apartment belonging to the mother of Johnson’s child. When she refused to answer the door, the pair kicked it in, and then allegedly moved a couch in front of the door to prevent anyone from leaving. Police say Johnson and Sanders then went into a bedroom and began beating a man they found…
