2025 TOPS Employee Design Challenge is a Wharnie Neck Knife
The Ivie is the 2025 addition to TOPS Employee Design Challenge series. This annual competition gives any TOPS employee the chance to become a knife designer, and this year’s model is a fetching EDC fixie designed by a knife enthusiast. Surely, not everyone who works...
American support for transgender troops serving openly in the military drops
Support for openly transgender men and women serving in the U.S. military is declining, according to a new poll, as President Donald Trump’s administration moves to reinstate a ban on transgender troops. According to a new Gallup poll, 58% of Americans support allowing openly transgender...
SOCOM wants new helmet goggle mount and oxygen-generating device
U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for a new aviation goggle mount and a way to get portable oxygen to troops in need. Two recent postings under the U.S. Special Operations Command small business innovation research program seek solutions for those two issues among special...
Coast Guard suspends search for crew member missing in Eastern Pacific
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday evening for a crew member reported missing from the cutter Waesche while operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean “pending the development of new information,” the service said. Seaman Bryan K. Lee, 23, was discovered “unaccounted for” Tuesday...
Department of Veterans Affairs cancels $178K in subscriptions to Politico Pro
The Department of Veterans Affairs canceled $178,000 in subscriptions to Politico Pro, VA Secretary Doug Collins announced Monday. Collins announced the move on X, saying his office had only recently become aware of the contract. The cancelation comes after President Donald Trump’s administration revealed that...
Trump fires service academy boards that oversee morale, academics
President Donald Trump said Monday he fired the boards of visitors at four U.S. service academies, claiming they had been “infiltrated by woke leftist ideologies.” Trump ordered the immediate dismissal of board members at the Military Academy in West Point, New York; the Naval Academy...
Trump says he ordered firing of military academies’ Board of Visitors
President Donald Trump says he is dismissing members of the Board of Visitors for each of the U.S. military service academies on Monday. Trump made the announcement on social media, saying the dismissals would impact the Boards of Visitors for the U.S. Army Academy, or...
Virginia Gun Owners Facing Dozens Of Bad Bills
The Virginia General Assembly reached its important crossover deadline on February 4, signifying the date by which legislation must pass out of its chamber of origin or be deemed dead for the session. Unfortunately for gun owners in Virginia, more than 20 anti-gun measures have...
Army, Navy remove web pages highlighting women’s military service
In an effort to align with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that terminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives across the federal government, the Army and Navy have taken down web pages that highlight the history and myriad contributions of female soldiers and...
US officials bound for Europe for top-level talks on Ukraine
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday that top administration officials will meet with European officials this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, nearly three years after Russia launched an all-out invasion. Less than a day earlier, the New York Post...
Ukraine War Update – Brutal Ukrainian Point-Blank Ambush on Russian Soldiers & More GoPro Combat 