A year after massive civilian personnel layoffs swept through the federal government and across military services, the U.S. Space Force is still rattled from its loss of a third of its total personnel.About 14% of the service’s civilian workforce, roughly 780 employees, got cut last year in what Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, called “mindless.” The cuts have left senators questioning how the Space Force can rebuild the loss of personnel.“I worry that a lot of expertise walked out the door during that period,” King said during Thursday’s hearing to discuss the nomination of Lt. Gen.…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that it had struck U.S. Navy facilities in Bahrain and warned that regional oil and gas exports could be blocked entirely in response to American attempts to control the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC accused Washington of acting like ‘pirates’ by restricting energy flows in the region. ‘Regional oil and gas exports are either for everyone or for no one,’ the IRGC said in a statement [1]. The warning came as part of what the IRGC described as the fifth…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Despite President Donald Trump’s tight clamp on the border, cartels are continuing to attempt to smuggle humans and narcotics by going underground using a vast network of storm drain tunnels in El Paso.U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) elite Confined Space Entry Team gave Fox News an exclusive look inside the narrow tunnels, which stretch for miles across the region.There are 32 entry points into the tunnels from the Rio Grande and hundreds of exit points throughout the city. The team said this makes patrolling the tunnels a game of “whack-a-mole” because…

The U.S. Navy announced that certain commands are no longer authorized to provide photos and biographies of leadership on public-facing websites.The decision was made to enhance security for sailors and their families, the service said.“Adversaries increasingly aggregate publicly available data to track, profile, and target our personnel,” a Navy administrative message read. “By creating an unnecessary spotlight and surge of online interest, routine command triad biographies inadvertently expose our people to elevated risk.”Commands led by vice admirals and officers with a lower rank, including civilian equivalents, are now prohibited from uploading the personal information on public websites.The official leadership biographies…

Bryson DeChambeau went into the Royal Birkdale clubhouse in a tie for second place at the Open Championship, hardly in a position to complain.However, rules officials then approached him about a potential transgression earlier on the fifth hole, and the two-time U.S. Open winner was not having it.DeChambeau was with several officials and his caddie, having an animated conversation in the rough on the fifth hole, right near the area where DeChambeau took his second shot. After finding his ball in hip-high fescue, DeChambeau appeared to be walking through the weeds, stomping on the rough behind him and causing it…

The U.S. Navy’s expensive effort to install hypersonic missiles on three Zumwalt-class destroyers is two years behind schedule, according to government auditors. In addition to problems stemming from both the destroyers and the missiles, the Navy and Army are reportedly not coordinating work on the joint Conventional Prompt Strike missile program. Missile flight testing scheduled for 2025 has been pushed back to 2027. “Despite recent successes testing the CPS missile, the Navy faces several programmatic challenges associated with developing, delivering, and deploying the CPS missile on the DDG-1000,” warned the Government Accountability Office report. “These challenges include rising costs, schedule…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man wanted on a felony warrant tried to out swim the law Thursday, spending about 90 minutes in the Pacific Ocean before lifeguards surrounded him and ended the bizarre escape attempt.According to KTLA, the unusual standoff began around 7:21 a.m. after officers with the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) West LA Division attempted to contact the suspect near Pacific Coast Highway and Sunset Boulevard.The man allegedly fled on foot before running past a lifeguard tower and into the water at Will Rogers State Beach.DEPUTY US MARSHAL FATALLY SHOT WHILE SERVING ARREST…

As the U.S. Air Force moves to increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into operations, the force needs to train human operators effectively to use the tools. But the technology might make a better fighter than the human at times, a former Air Force secretary said.At a Thursday roundtable discussion hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Frank Kendall, the 26th Secretary of the Air Force, claimed there are some instances when machines can outperform human operators, since the latter aren’t “perfect.”“When you get to the point where the AI is doing a better job of deciding who to kill than the…

We’ve got another outdoors fixed blade from Civivi to look at today, the Carveth. The name hints at the role of this one, with a marked bent towards the needs of hunters here. Few things say “hunting knife” more than a handsome, classically proportioned drop point, such as we have here on the Carveth. At 3.59 inches long, the edge is big enough for the (let’s be honest) gnarlier chores such a role demands: things like field dressing and general carving. The Civivi line is dominated by hard working steels, and the design team chose a classic for the Carveth:…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! HEATED MOMENT: Med school deans come up empty in tense hearing when asked point blank if men can have babies: ‘Ridiculous’ CULTURE OF DEATH: New York college professor celebrates Lindsey Graham’s death in social media post, later apologizesUNDER FIRE: Key Trump agency puts top universities in crosshairs over alleged race-based dorm programs STOCK DROPPED: Confidence in higher education slips after brief recovery, Gallup poll finds TECH TROUBLE: AI backlash reaches major university with bold ban on laptops and phones for law students NOT SATISFIED: Ivy League professor rips university for lackluster response…

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… lone Army aviation student in the cockpit?For the first time in decades, student pilots are flying solo across the country, the Army announced Thursday, as part of a curriculum change the schoolhouse hopes will create more skilled pilots. The new aviators will prepare for the endeavor with two weeks of cross-country instruction before completing a check ride. Then, with naught but their fresh hands at the controls, the students will fly 50 to 100 nautical miles from Shell Army Heliport, navigating the national airspace without an instructor.Second Lt. Kyler Suerth, one of…