KYIV, Ukraine — The possibility of an adversary detonating a nuclear weapon in space to disrupt U.S. satellite infrastructure and the global communications networks that rely on it is no longer a remote scenario, according to multiple officials — and American forces are not prepared for it, strategists found after bringing former officials together to war-game their responses to a potential nuclear danger in orbit. The possibility of nuclear war in space mostly sat in think-tank territory until recently, when the Pentagon confirmed it keeps weapons above the sky. Moscow demanded the demilitarization of space and Ukrainian intelligence published stolen…
Author: Tommy Grant
Battalion Commanders in the Army can now nominate senior enlisted leaders for promotion — and increased pay — commensurate with their position. Commanders can formally recommend the promotion of sergeants first class to master sergeant with the soldier’s appointment to the role of first sergeant, the service announced Wednesday. “We are empowering leaders to endorse high-performing E-7s who stepped up and committed to taking on the hardest working grade plate in the Army: first sergeant,” said Sgt. Maj. Michael Weimer, the Army’s top enlisted leader, in the statement. “This program is about merit — plain and simple — ensuring qualified,…
This year, the U.S. Army’s top drill sergeants had to do more than hurl toe-curling insults and foam at the mouth like ferocious, rabid wolves. On Wednesday, the service wrapped up an intensive 72-hour competition to determine the Army’s best broad-brimmed hat-wearing men and women, announcing the contest’s first winners since the service brought recruiting and initial training under the same three-star command. Staff Sgt. Noel Berges, of Leesburg, Virginia, was named the 2026 U.S. Army Drill Sergeant of the Year, and Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Harrington, of Mauldin, South Carolina, won the title for the U.S. Army Reserve after…
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emphasized that the joint force must prove readiness ahead of a conflict in a time when adversaries are becoming increasingly interconnected amid the changing character of war.The force needs to be “clear-eyed” about the environment ahead as future conflicts will be progressively contested and defy simpler solutions, Caine said in a Wednesday keynote at the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference.“We have to assume from now on that our formations will be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum and tracked in real time,”…
A U.S. Army basic trainee was struck by a vehicle and killed while on foot along a busy interstate outside of an Oklahoma base this week. Pfc. Ocean K. Winfrey, 27, was assigned to the 434th Field Artillery Brigade to complete Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, the Army said. Winfrey enlisted as a network communications specialist in August and reported to the base in September. According to a teletype transmitted on Sept. 11 at 4:44 a.m., Winfrey was near mile marker 41 on Interstate 44. The transmission, provided by the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, described Winfrey as a…
A Missouri man who claimed conscientious objector status in 1966 pleaded guilty this week to submitting fake combat awards and documents in order to reap Veterans Affairs benefits, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office, Western District of Missouri, said in a statement Tuesday. James Lyon, 80, admitted to submitting fraudulent documents to the VA to help him pocket over $124,000 in disability payments, lying about his military service and claiming he earned combat accolades — including the Silver Star and the Bronze Star — during the Vietnam War. Lyon never served in combat and confessed to refusing Marine Corps training roughly…
It was a magnificent Easter Sunday morning when canoe guide Phil Longden led his party of German tourists into a channel skirting the great Zambezi River, which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Their trip had been a happy one and the spectacles they had come in search of had filled their cameras. The vista ahead promised more of the same. Waterbuck and impala grazed quietly on the green riverine grasses while brilliant white egrets danced at the feet of Cape buffalo as their hooves unearthed a well-stocked larder of insects. Unmistakable brown blobs rippled the calm water downriver…
The ice storm that took our power out for two days taught me a very hard lesson. I had shelves of gear in that garage, some of it barely used, and yet the first thing I dragged outside was a beat-up steel drum I’d bought years earlier for eleven dollars at a farm auction. That barrel became our stove by the second evening, sitting in the shop with a length of pipe running out the window while my wife and I played cards in our coats. Meanwhile, a good portion of the equipment I’d spent real money on sat there…
China urged the United States to halt its military build-up in outer space after Washington acknowledged it has weapons deployed in orbit, while Chinese state media warned the move could fuel a global arms race.Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Beijing opposed the weaponization of outer space and turning it into a war zone.“We urge the U.S. to stop expanding military build-up in outer space, and uphold global strategic stability with concrete actions,” Guo told a regular press briefing on Tuesday.U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said on Monday the United States had “on-orbit space control weapons…
Rost Martin has just launched the RM1X pistol series featuring three distinct model variants.Rost Martin is continuing to expand its RM1 pistol family, this time with the RM1X series. The new series features three distinct models that are tailored to different roles and tasks. However, all RM1X models feature a full-size grip, a compact slide, and a 17+1 capacity of 9mm with flush-fit mags. Each pistol ships with one 17-round mag and one extended 19-round mag.The RM1CX Standard combines the capacity and grip space of a full-size handgun with a more concealable barrel and slide length. This model is ideal…