Behind the Scenes: Updating Minuteman’s .300 BLK 220-Grain Subsonic Load
Posted on June 29, 2026 by Daniel Mitchell Good ammunition doesn’t happen by accident. It’s built, tested, corrected, and tested again. And at Minuteman Ammunition, nothing is ever considered “finished” just because it works in our shop. It also has to work in your rifle....
DC resident who played ‘The Imperial March’ at federal troops receives settlement
It was a warm, early autumn day in D.C. as Sam O’Hara trailed several National Guard members. It had been several weeks since President Donald Trump had declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital and deployed federal troops. On three separate occasions O’Hara had...
Military Sealift Command ship makes history with rare combat award
Since its creation during the World War II, the Presidential Unit Citation has only been bestowed roughly 100 times — the through line being some of the most elite units and daring operations in U.S. military history. Now, an oil replenishment ship will join the...
20-year trove of shipboard assault cases now public after data request
Of 116 Naval Criminal Investigative Service case files opened into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct onboard Military Sealift Command ships over a 20-year period, just five show that the case concluded at court-martial or in civilian court. That information is now public and searchable...
Is GPS reliance making troops less observant? Yearlong study aims to find out.
Military commanders love to warn troops that overreliance on GPS technology could spell disaster when signals are jammed or networks go down. But could handing navigation over to a computer be diminishing their powers of observation and decision-making skills as well? That’s the question an...
Army wants up to 100 drone boats to fill watercraft gap in Pacific
As the Army contends with a shortage of ships to carry troops and supplies in the Pacific, it’s pressing contract vessels into service – and looking to a future in which dozens of heavy-duty autonomous watercraft take on a significant portion of the task. The...
US sending military warships, personnel to Venezuela in the wake of the nation’s devastating earthquakes
Two U.S. warships, the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and the littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS-15), have been dispatched to Venezuela following the nation’s devastating earthquakes on Wednesday. According to U.S. Southern Command, the interim government of Venezuela formally requested U.S. support following the twin...
US strikes Iranian missile, drone, radar sites
Editors note: this is a developing story. The U.S. struck Iranian missile, drone and radar sites on Friday, U.S. Central Command said, in what the military described as a response to Iran’s attack on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship sailing the Strait of Hormuz. The attacks...
Military recruiting hit a 15-year high. How quickly do recruits become mission ready?
All five active-duty military services met or exceeded their fiscal 2025 recruiting goals, according to the Department of Defense, marking what Pentagon officials described as the strongest recruiting performance in 15 years. The Army signed contracts with 62,050 recruits, or 101.72% of its goal, while...
US Army gives chaplains 90 days to remove rank insignia
The U.S. Army this week gave its chaplains 90 days to strip the rank from their uniforms in a move that puts a definitive timeline on a directive championed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has sought to shift religious leaders’ identities from their military...
