U.S. Marines on Guam recently fired the service’s new Medium-Range Intercept Capability system, representing the validation of the Corps’ first medium-range air defense system since the divestment of the service’s legacy HAWK platform in the 1990s. The ongoing Exercise Valiant Shield became the proving ground for III Marine Expeditionary Force personnel, as Marines at Camp Blaz successfully used the MRIC to intercept an aerial target on June 30, 2026. The MRIC is a “significant leap in operational capability,” a service release stated. The system bridges the gap between the shoulder-fired Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System and the long-range Patriot missile…
Author: Tommy Grant
This article was originally published by Willow Tohi at Natural News. The EPA faces an emergency petition to require cancer warnings on pesticide labels after a Supreme Court ruling limited lawsuits from cancer sufferers. The EPA has approved over 200 active pesticide ingredients it links to cancer but has placed cancer warnings on only 1.4% of “likely” carcinogen products. A California federal judge recently ruled the EPA does not have to force disclosure of toxic “inert” pesticide ingredients, shielding health risks from the public. Environmental groups argue the EPA has “consistently failed” to warn consumers about known cancer risks for…
The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider will operate with a two-pilot crew, the service announced Thursday.The service determined that a two-pilot configuration would best fit the country’s newest long-range strike bomber’s “mission profile,” according to the release.The Air Force is also creating a pilot transition program from select weapons system officers, or WSOs, and combat systems officers, or CSOs. The officers will be chosen to attend the program with a follow-on assignment to the B-21.“To maximize the lethality and survivability of the Raider, it is imperative to retain the deep tactical and combat experience currently residing within the WSO and…
The World Health Organization (WHO) expects cancer cases to soar all over the globe. The WHO made this announcement in a report released on Wednesday, in which the agency said cancer remains the world’s second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease, claiming more than 26,000 lives daily. But by 2050, cancer will affect 90% of the population either through diagnosis of themselves or a close relative. WHO estimates that there are currently nearly 10 million deaths and 20.6 million new cases of cancer annually. The agency is warning that without urgent action, the latest figure will rise to 35 million by…
Fourteen years after leaving Mongolia on his own to pursue an education in the United States, Sgt. Munk Munkhzaya returned home in a U.S. Army uniform to support Exercise Khaan Quest 2026 as a translator and cultural liaison.Munkhzaya, a finance technician assigned to the 125th Finance Battalion, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, returned to Mongolia for the multinational exercise hosted by the Mongolian Armed Forces and co-sponsored by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The exercise brings together military personnel from 18 nations to improve United Nations peacekeeping training.“Khaan Quest gives service members from multiple nations the opportunity to meet each other, share cultures…
The Pentagon said the suspension of Apache pilots involved in a beach flyover last week has been lifted after videos of the helicopters flying low over a beach packed with onlookers circulated online and local news reported that the soldiers were subject to an investigation. In a statement on social media, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said “carry on Patriots,” after announcing that “the suspension of all involved South Carolina pilots has been lifted.” Late Thursday evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted “We’ll fix this. Carry on, Patriots,” in response to a video of the incident posted by a social media…
This week, the Pentagon published a comprehensive yet practical guide to help non-experts understand the threat drones pose as well as ways to avoid and prevent attacks. Brig. Gen. Matthew Ross, the director of the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department’s lead organization for countering drones, described the handbook as “not a technical manual or detailed set of rules” but rather “a common foundation to shape our collective approach to this challenge.”Using conversational language, freehand sketches and relatable references, Small Drones, Big Problems: A First Principles Approach to Countering-UAS makes the information approachable. Inside, the handbook introduces the…
This article was originally published by Michael Matulef at The Mises Institute. Every July 4th, Americans are handed sparklers and told to celebrate their freedom. Politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance of it. Let’s be precise about what actually happened in 1776. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not, by any stretch, anarchists. Many owned slaves. Most had no intention of dissolving the institution of…
If you’ve been on the homestead long, you probably already have plenty of experience canning food from your garden or orchard. I had heard of dry canning but naively thought it was the same as vacuum sealing the mason jar using the valve attachment. While vacuum sealing does remove the air from within the jar, it doesn’t necessarily kill all of the eggs or bugs that could be lurking in your dry goods. As homesteaders, we can all use new techniques to extend our food stock, and dry canning is just one option to use. Dry canning is not a…
If you’ve been at this a while, you already know how to dry meat and put up beans. So this isn’t another list of the obvious. These are the older, stranger, harder-won foods that carried this country across mountains and through wars and depressions, the ones that have mostly slipped out of living memory. Our great-grandparents fed armies and families on them with no refrigeration and no grocery store within a hundred miles. How Lewis and Clark Carried Soup Across a Continent Long before the bouillon cube, there was portable soup, also called pocket soup or veal glue. It’s broth…