The military’s deployment of almost 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests will cost around $134 million and last 60 days, the Pentagon’s acting comptroller told lawmakers in a hearing Tuesday. That funding will come from the Defense Department’s operations and maintenance budget and cover travel, housing, food and other incidental expenses, Bryn MacDonnel said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing. Together, the description gives the clearest sense yet of the military’s bill for the administration’s controversial deployments to the city. In the last several days, the Pentagon has approved 4,000…
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House appropriators on Tuesday advanced plans for a $831.5 billion defense budget for next fiscal year over concerns from Democratic lawmakers that the spending package is rushed and incomplete, since the White House still has not unveiled its own detailed funding plans for the military. However, the funding plan is designed to run alongside congressional reconciliation plans, which would add another $150 billion in funds for the Defense Department. Republicans assert the combination could bring total military spending for next year to nearly $1 trillion, even though those funds would be spread out over four years. “[This bill] provides the…
Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, is well aware that he cannot win the conflict against Russia on his own and is trying to drag NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) into it, Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, has said. This could plunge the world into a new world war, he warned. Tuberville made the statements on John Catsimatidis’ radio show, “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM on Sunday. According to the senator, the conflict between Moscow and Kiev is on the verge of spilling over to other nations and potentially involving the US military. Tuberville also accused Zelensky of trying…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “They Find Lost Men,” appeared in the June 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. Nobody foresaw, at the time it happened, that when Harold Patrick froze to death on a moose hunt in the bush north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in December 1958, his death would spark a search-and-rescue organization that would be the means of saving an unknown number of lives. But that’s how it turned out. Patrick went into the Pancake River country, 50 miles north of the Canadian Soo,…
Only days after protests against the administration’s immigration crackdown began in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has ordered almost 5,000 troops — including 700 Marines — to the city in a stunning display of force.But the president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act, required for the military to conduct law enforcement on American soil.“You have violent people, and we’re not going to let them get away with it,” Trump told reporters Sunday, while also noting he didn’t think the violence amounted yet to an “insurrection.”The deployments, experts and former defense officials say, are technically legal but leave the military performing an…
The United States Pentagon has deployed 700 Marines to California to help quell the riots and protests against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The violent protests were sparked by the arrest of several suspected illegal immigrants. The protests erupted on Friday after the immigration authorities arrested over 40 people at a Home Depot parking lot and at the Ambiance Apparel clothing manufacturer on suspicion of using “fictitious employee documents.” Demonstrations denouncing Trump’s hardline immigration policy quickly spiraled into looting and violent clashes with police. –RT The Marines will support National Guard troops, whose presence on the streets is expected to increase…
The OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) is a decision-making approach used by military personnel that works in daily life, too. Whenever you enter a new environment—a parking lot, a coffee shop, a subway platform—run through these steps: observe, orient, decide, and act mentally. It helps you stay engaged and ready to respond. 3. Scan and Assess Train yourself to glance around and take note of exits, people around you, and anything that doesn’t seem to belong. You don’t need to stare at people or be nervous. Just be aware. Make a practice of scanning your surroundings, and it will…
After spending the better part of a decade transitioning outdated systems and infrastructure to the cloud, the Air Force agency responsible for providing key weather and environmental inputs for military and intelligence operations is starting to see a silver lining. Air Force Weather started its digital transformation in 2017 amid a broader U.S. government push to migrate away from siloed data centers to more secure, efficient and capable could-based environments. As the Air Force’s largest special-purpose data processing node — crunching around 80 terabytes of data, or the equivalent of 6.6 billion pages of text, a day — the organization…
This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. U.S. and Chinese delegations have arrived in the U.K. for talks aimed at patching up a fraying truce in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. The US team leby The U.S. team led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are due to meet with a Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng in London in a renewed effort to break the deadlock after last month’s Geneva talks failed to produce meaningful results. The high-stakes meeting follows President Donald Trump’s call with…
Since the conflict in Ukraine began, it feels like many preppers have started worrying less about the risk of an EMP strike. Nuclear war has taken center stage again, and in comparison, something like an electromagnetic pulse might seem too abstract to matter. But ignoring the EMP threat is a mistake we can’t afford to make. The Nationwide Impact of an EMP Strike Even in a large-scale nuclear exchange, most parts of the country wouldn’t be hit directly. Those near missile bases or strategic targets might face radioactive fallout, but with the right supplies, shelter, and discipline, that’s something a…