The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move.The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply…
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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. A Texas man was killed over the weekend while hunting Cape buffalo in South Africa’s Limpopo province. Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking the animal alongside others in his party when the buffalo charged and gored him. The animal was not wounded, and the safari outfitter Watkins was hunting with said the fatal attack was sudden and unprovoked. “It’s a reality that’s still hard to put into words,” the hunter’s ex-wife Courtney told UK-based Metro News. “We’ve been in a state of…
In theory, a doomsday bunker offers the ultimate form of security: a hidden, fortified refuge from the chaos of WWIII or some other doomsday event. But in practice, your underground survival shelter could turn into a coffin.Most people imagine survival shelters as ironclad solutions to nuclear war, civil unrest, or some other catastrophe. They conjure images of high-tech bunkers with filtered air, shelves lined with supplies, and thick doors shielding them from danger. What they don’t imagine is the gas leak, the blocked air vent, the rising groundwater, or the crushing weight of soil collapsing inward. Yet those are far…
The Navy released its list of personnel who were selected to advance to chief petty officer in fiscal year 2026, according to the MyNavyHR website.“Strong competition between qualified professionals is one of the strengths of our Navy and your screening speaks highly of your abilities,” the administrative message said of the Active-Duty Navy E7 Advancement Selection Board who made the decisions.The specific dates for advancement will be published by the commanding officer of Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center in Pensacola, Florida. The full list of approved CPOs can be found here.Riley Ceder is a reporter at Military Times,…
A convicted felon was arrested at Palm Beach International Airport after deputies found a loaded AR-15 rifle and several knives in his rental car. The man, previously arrested for multiple felonies, was seen acting suspiciously in a restricted area and is now facing several charges, potentially preventing a mass shooting. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE WEST PALM BEACH, FL (2-minute read) — Authorities at Palm Beach International Airport may have prevented a tragic incident after detaining a man found with multiple weapons near a restricted area of the airport. Deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) responded early in…
Six soldiers received the Meritorious Service Medal for their actions during an active shooter incident that wounded five service members at Fort Stewart, Georgia, on Wednesday.Army Secretary Dan Driscoll presented the medals Thursday to Sgt. Aaron Turner, Master Sgt. Justin Thomas, Staff Sgt. Robert Pacheco, Sgt. Eve Rodarte, 1st Sgt. Joshua Arnold and Sgt. Melissa Taylor for their quick response in subduing the shooter and preventing further violence.“The fast action of these soldiers under stress and under trauma and under fire absolutely saved lives. They are everything that is good about this nation,” Driscoll said at a news conference. The…
Cambodia has announced its fifteenth human case of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu. The steady pace of human infection is increasingly concerning to health authorities in the country. In a Facebook post, the ministry said the patient is a 6-year-old girl from Takeo province, according to a translation from Avian Flu Diary, an infectious disease news blog. The girl is hospitalized with symptoms that include fever, cough, and breathing difficulty. Cambodia’s National Institute of Public Health confirmed the case yesterday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States says that bird flu symptoms are usually mild.…
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has unveiled its plan to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. The agency’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, recently stated that a plan is in place to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 to support a permanent human presence. United States Secretary of Transportation and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy declared on Thursday that the United States must secure a strategic lunar base by 2030, powered by a nuclear reactor, in response to growing competition from China and Russia. The announcement, which was made at a Department of Transportation press conference,…
A 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges.Taylor Adam Lee was arrested in El Paso, Texas, on criminal charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.Lee holds a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, according to a justice department release. From May to the time of his arrest, Lee sought to establish his U.S. Army credentials and send defense information to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. In June, Lee allegedly transmitted export-controlled technical data on the M1A2 Abrams tank online and…
This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffee at The Mises Institute. President Trump caused a stir last Friday after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after it released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. In a post on his social media site Truth Social, the president blamed the Biden-appointed BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, for manipulating jobs numbers to prop up Democrats and make his administration look bad. He promised to appoint someone “much more competent and qualified.” Many of his critics sought to frame the move as a childish yet dangerous attempt to brazenly warp reality to Trump’s liking. Even…