Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “Blood Toll to Brown Bears,” appeared in the March 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. Every year Alaska brown bears kill or maim at least one man. It seems these huge beasts — the largest meat eaters in the world — take a toll in blood as a tax mankind must pay for invading their domain. For the human animal is the only one since the mammoth and the mastodon that could men ace the brownies that live on the mainland and on…
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While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy.How so? Well, the Navy’s chief technology officer, Justin Fanelli, says he has spent the last two and a half years cutting through the red tape and shrinking the protracted procurement cycles that once made working with the military a nightmare for startups. The efforts represent a less visible but potentially more meaningful remaking that aims to see the government move faster and be smarter about where…
The Iranian ruling class has been preparing for a long war against Israel. According to an official in Tehran, it has plans to “shut down Israel’s war machine,” in the process. The official outlined Iran’s extensive list of potential targets within “occupied territories,” which include covert residences of Israeli government leaders, energy facilities, factories supplying military aircraft, and critical command-and-control infrastructure. The United States has already vowed to take Israel’s side. Israel Attacks Iran: Trump Vows To Defend Israel Israel and Iran have been engaged in a fierce exchange of fire for three consecutive days. While, for all intents and purposes, this…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. A group of tourists in Yellowstone National Park witnessed some canine-induced chaos Friday when a German shepherd jumped out of a moving car to chase down a gray wolf. The incident concluded as quickly as it began, with neither animal injured, according to local tour guide MacNeil Lyons, who captured the commotion in a brilliant series of photographs he shared to Facebook. In one photo, a different tour guide is seen chasing after the German shepherd, which is already hot on the wolf’s tail…
PARIS — A top Boeing executive said the company is proceeding with work on a contract to build two new Air Force One jets amid a pending deal by President Donald Trump to accept a donated jet for the mission from Qatar.Stephen Parker, Boeing’s interim president and chief executive officer, told reporters at the Paris Air Show there had been “no impact at all” on the firm’s assignment of transforming a pair of 747-8 aircraft into VC-25B Air Force One planes.At a press conference, Parker largely managed to sidestep the hot potato that is the controversial Qatari gift to Trump,…
A U.S. Navy destroyer handed off 245 kilograms of illegal goods recovered by the Royal Canadian Navy to the U.S. Coast Guard on June 11, according to a Navy release.The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Cole retrieved the illicit materials — approximately 539 pounds — from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessel William Hall on June 9 in the Caribbean Sea.“The Reliance-class U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Vigorous (WMEC 627) accepted the contraband from the Cole’s embarked USCG Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET),” the release said.The U.S. Coast Guard’s LEDET program, established in 1982, operates under U.S. Northern Command,…
Donald Trump has ordered that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carry out the largest mass deportation in history. He posted his idea on his Truth Social platform. In a post on Sunday evening, Trump instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to “achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” he added, according to a…
Four Silicon Valley technology executives from major companies are joining the U.S Army Reserve as officers to inject the speed and expertise of commercial technology development into military innovation through the newly established Detachment 201, an Executive Innovation Corps, the service announced Friday.The Pentagon has long turned to civilian experts for technological insight, from World War II-era scientists to modern advisory boards like the Defense Innovation Board. Detachment 201 takes the desire to collaborate with the high-technology industry to a new level: embedding senior tech execs directly into the Army Reserve as uniformed officers.Those first Army Reserve lieutenant colonels, who…
A Minnesota man posing as a police officer fatally shot former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, wounded a state senator and his wife, and was found with a hit list and cache of firearms. Captured after a massive two-day manhunt, Vance Boelter is now facing multiple felony charges for this targeted political attack. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE BROOKLYN PARK, MN (3-minute read) — Authorities in Minnesota have arrested 57-year-old Vance Boelter following a deadly and targeted shooting spree that claimed the lives of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. The early-morning attack in Brooklyn Park…
Officials from the National Veterans Legal Services Program, which helped bring the legal suit, said more than 9,000 individuals nationwide could benefit from the ruling. In a statement, Executive Director Paul Wright said the move means that those veterans “will finally receive the full amount of the compensation they earned through their service and sacrifice.”The case — Soto v. United States — has been winding through the federal courts since 2017 and has been pending before the Supreme Court since last fall. Arguments on the issue took place in April. The plaintiff, Marine Corps veteran Simon Soto, served for six…