When people get busy storing supplies, reading survival books, and practicing their skills, it’s easy for them to forget about their pets. But if a major disaster occurs, the last thing you want to do is stress out about finding food for Fido or treating Mr. Whisker’s fractured leg. You’ll want to make sure your pets are healthy and taken care of so you can concentrate on other things. Most people assume they can just feed their pets human food if they have to, but that’s not always true. Animals have different nutritional needs, and foods that are okay for…
Author: Tommy Grant
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday he is working to fix telecom issues flagged after a military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump last week came too close to a passenger jet departing Reagan Washington National Airport.The incident raised serious questions about why the passenger airplane was allowed to depart while Marine One was nearby, a time when commercial traffic is typically halted. Following a January 2025 crash between a military helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration barred mixed helicopter and jet traffic around the airport.“There have been some telecom issues,” Duffy told…
MANILA, Philippines — A senior Pentagon official pushed back against reports that the U.S. military’s stockpiles and capabilities are strained following Operation Epic Fury, while reaffirming Washington’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific amid China’s increasingly assertive military activity in the South China Sea.Department of War Undersecretary for Policy Elbridge Colby made the remarks in Manila on Monday amid growing concerns that China has been narrowing the gap — or eclipsing — U.S. military capabilities, as its demands in the Middle East have potentially drained stockpiles.“There’s been a lot of news about the United States military being stretched. Please don’t be misinformed,”…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. A Florida woman was with a group of swimmers on August 8 in the Silver River near Ocala when she noticed a large alligator coming toward her. The gator grabbed her right arm and took her down violently. Mike Head was on the river paddleboarding when he witnessed the attack. He rushed over to help the woman. “It was almost like a missile, and it would just kind of… I could just see the back of it,” Head told Fox35. “I couldn’t swing because I…
Moscow on Tuesday freed a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon for the ailing American based on humanitarian reasons, U.S. officials said.The White House and the State Department had urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he can receive medical treatment in the United States.Gilman was being held in a prison in Voronezh, about 340 miles south of Moscow. The exact circumstances of his health are unclear.But Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, an advocacy group representing Gilman’s family, told Reuters last week that Gilman was moved…
The Navy announced that it is delivering live entertainment to 50 installations as part of a program to help service members and their families relax and build community.Operation Morale, Welfare and Recreation is bringing music acts to military facilities through April 2027. The event kicked off on Aug. 8 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island with Fitz and The Tantrums and Alana Springsteen.“Quality of service is about ensuring our sailors and their families have the support, connections and opportunities they need to thrive,” said Vice Adm. Scott Gray, commander of Navy Installations Command. “Programs like Operation MWR help reduce stress,…
Lockheed Martin on Monday announced the launch of Strigo, a new line of modular missile and sensor hardware, along with a dedicated product center designed to get weapons into the field faster. The line covers radio-frequency sensors, missile datalinks and missile seeker technologies, all built on a common baseline architecture. The company said the shared architecture allows Strigo hardware to be reconfigured for different missions, including air defense, missile defense and air-to-surface strike. Lockheed calls the Strigo Product Center a storefront for “ready-now and near-ready” hardware that it said can be adapted to customer needs. The company said the modular…
Recent combat with Iran has put pressure on U.S. munitions stockpiles as the Pentagon pushes defense companies to accelerate production and delivery of critical weapons.Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg told defense-industry leaders in an Aug. 5 memo that they have 21 days to submit plans for “significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities.”“Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.”The memo also asks companies to propose specific capital investments and facility expansions and to explain how they would work with the Pentagon…
Water buys you time. That is the short version. A body with steady access to clean water but zero calories can, in documented cases, keep functioning for one to three months, a timeline that would be utterly impossible without water in the picture. This is not a repeat of the general survival math you have seen before. This breaks down the actual physiology of what happens when the calories stop but the water does not: the metabolic stages your body moves through, the real documented cases of people who lived through it, and the dangerous second act almost nobody talks…
We take a quick look at 6mm Remington, aka .244 Remington, a true middle-weight heavy hitter of a cartridge.The 6mm Remington has exactly the same case dimensions as the .244 Remington. They differ only in the fact that the 6mm Remington is loaded with bullets of up to 100 grains, whereas the .244 Remington was never loaded with bullets of more than 90 grains. Ammunition marked .244 Remington can be fired in 6mm Remington chambers and vice versa. However, rifles marked .244 Remington will not always stabilize the 100-grain bullet. The difference between the two is that .244 rifles (if…