While it’s common for preppers to make bug out bags, everyday carry (EDC) bags aren’t nearly as common. The thing about emergencies is you never know when they will happen, and a bug out bag won’t do you much good if you can’t get it when you need it.For example, if you’re at work when disaster strikes and your bug out bag is at home, it’s basically useless. An EDC bag, on the other hand, is something you can keep nearby at all times, no matter where you are.Of course, advertising that you’re carrying around a bag full of survival…
Author: Tommy Grant
Every unit has a Dwight. He’s overzealous, obsessed with regulations, quick to issue commands, and just paranoid enough to think the coffee pot is bugged. But unlike the Blue Falcons or barracks lawyers you try to avoid, the Dwights of the world bring something rare to a team: operational excellence buried beneath three layers of cringe. In the universe of The Office, Dwight K. Schrute is a beet farmer, assistant (to the) regional manager, volunteer sheriff’s deputy and walking field manual. While his coworkers at Dunder Mifflin dismiss him as a weirdo with delusions of authority, service members might recognize…
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that the current NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) chief is “on magic mushrooms.” Medvedev has been mocking Mark Rutte after the NATO leader claimed China could ask Russia to attack European territory. Rutte said that if China wanted to attack Taiwan, it could first attack NATO territory in Europe as a diversion from a war. While speaking to the New York Times on Saturday, Rutte said Chinese President Xi Jinping may tell his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin: “I’m going to do this, and I need you to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO…
Kirill Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency HUR, has acknowledged that Ukraine cannot “turn the tide” in the war with Russia. There is no way for the military to win on the battlefield, forcing Budanov to assert that only negotiations can meaningfully alter the course of the conflict. As of right now, Ukraine lacks the ability to push Russian forces back in any kind of meaningful way. Budanov was responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments that military logic often requires occupying territories while not formally claiming them. Putin added that historically, Russia has operated on the simple idea…
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees.The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico and western Texas, declaring a “restricted area by authority of the commander.” It’s part of a major shift that has thrust the military into border enforcement with Mexico like never before.The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of nearby military bases, empowering…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Day of Terror,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. Marty Cordes and I spent the last half of September, 1955, hunting moose in the Chilkat River valley north of Haines, Alaska, where we live and work as construction men. We had no luck the first 10 days. I wounded a bull the second day, in a heavy rain, and fol lowed the blood trail until it washed out. For a week after that we didn’t lay…
This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute. “When a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”—Declaration of Independence (1776) We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing into kakistocracy (government by the worst), and enforced by a police state algocracy (rule by algorithm). This week alone, the Trump administration is reportedly erecting protest barricades around the White House, Congress is…
We discuss why ignoring the militia clause endangers the right to keep and bear arms.When Americans debate the Second Amendment, most of the focus tends to center around the individual right to keep and bear arms. This emphasis, especially in post-Heller and McDonald jurisprudence, is both understandable and historically justified. However, a recurring error—committed even by Second Amendment advocates—is to treat the “militia clause” as a relic or a throwaway preamble. This oversight is more than a mere historical misstep; it’s a strategic blunder that endangers the very right these advocates claim to protect.As the Tenth Amendment Center has long…
Imagine this: You’re in your garage, working on a DIY project, fixing an old tool, or maybe just cleaning up that pile of clutter you’ve been ignoring for months. You accidentally scratch your hand on a rusty nail, or you jab yourself with a forgotten old screwdriver. “It’s just a little cut,” you think. “I’ll rinse it off and get back to work.” But what you don’t realize is that you may have just invited a silent killer straight into your bloodstream — one that doesn’t need much to wreak havoc. This hidden threat is so dangerous, it can cause…
As of July 31, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center will stop sharing satellite weather data with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a NOAA release. “This service change and termination will be permanent,” according to the NOAA release. Data gathered from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, or DMSP, all Near-Earth Space Weather instruments and other Defense Department-owned systems will cease to be provided to NOAA.The DMSP satellites capture global imagery from space twice a day, monitoring cloud formations, velocities, compositions and drifts, and provide NOAA with data and imagery. “Military weather forecasters [using the DMSP]…