Selected Reserve Marines eligible for up to $20,000 retention bonus
Selected Marine Corps Reserve personnel in ranks E-4 to E-6 are now eligible for one-time pay bumps for remaining in specific job specialties, according to a Marine Corps memo released Wednesday. As part of the Selected Marine Corps Reserve Retention and Affiliation Bonus Program, corporals,...
Bond Arms BullPup9 Review: Reverse-Feed Rotating Barrel Pistol
The Bond Arms BullPup9 is one of the most mechanically unusual, historically interesting, and unexpectedly refined pistols to hit the concealed-carry world in the last two decades. In a market saturated with polymer-frame micro-compacts that all follow the same basic formula, the BullPup9 is the...
TOPS Takes Tex Creek to Slipjoint Station
TOPS is taking a crack at a slipjoint with their latest release, the Tex Creek. Although it is outside of the usual TOPS wheelhouse, the Tex Creek has the house style in spades – due in no small part to being designed by company CEO...
VA extends ‘legacy’ caregiver benefits through 2028
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to extend benefits through 2028 to veteran caregivers who faced removal from a VA program that provides them health care and compensation. The VA announced Thursday that ‘legacy’ participants of the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers —...
Airman behind famed ‘Burst of Joy’ photo dies at 92
Retired Col. Robert L. Stirm, the man featured in the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo “Burst of Joy” died on Nov. 11 in Fairfield, California, his daughter, Lorrie Stirm Kitching confirmed to The New York Times. He was 92. The photo itself is iconic: A seemingly...
The Dust Devils and one final homage to the Harrier
NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE, California — The “Dust Devils” of the Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX-31) brought the AV-8B Harrier’s decades-long testing era to an official close this fall with one final sortie flown by the squadron’s last remaining Harrier pilot,...
Pentagon must do better to safeguard public information, GAO warns
The Defense Department continues to encounter cyber security vulnerabilities stemming from publicly accessible information shared across digital platforms, a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office warns. The report, released on Nov. 17, highlights security lapses across 10 DOD components linked to digital activity...
Gun Rights Groups Push to Strike Down NFA After Tax Repeal
Two top gun-rights organizations are pushing a Missouri court to declare the National Firearms Act (NFA) null and void since the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) and NFA-designated “any other weapons” (AOWs) was rescinded in President Donald Trump’s One Big...
Thanksgiving feasts deployed to troops around the world
Whether they’re feasting in dining halls, aboard ships, or at remote outposts, troops around the world are set to receive their Thanksgiving meals as 152,626 pounds of turkey have already arrived at their designated overseas locations, along with beef, ham, shrimp and the fixings, according...
House Dem urges service members to uphold constitutional oath over Trump
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats and Republicans heard two very different takeaways when a group of Democratic lawmakers called on U.S. service members not to carry out certain orders in a video that went viral on social media Tuesday. Rep. Chrissy...
