The renowned M14 service rifle has a complex history: it was the U.S. military’s shortest-lived service rifle yet one of the longest in service. While its time as a standard-issue rifle for G.I.s was brief, its power and performance have ensured its continued use as a sniper and Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR), cementing its legacy. One well-known M21 setup during the Vietnam War included the addition of the PVS2 Starlight night optic. Image: DVIDS In fact, while the M14 initially served as the primary service rifle in the dense jungles of Vietnam, it was also there that it earned its place…

LionSteel is making an even skinnier version of the Skinny this year, called the Emmet. This knife packs a lot of cutting power into a small, integral frame. The Skinny was a 2024 release for the LionSteel – first showed off at SHOT Show, which is where its little brother stepped into the spotlight this year. The Skinny was classic LionSteel, not only in its clean-cut, modern styling, but in its SOLID construction – LionSteel’s designation for an integral folder, a sub-genre they pioneered in the production space and have remained interested in ever since. Although not the biggest knife…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  By the time we got to this stage, I always thought that most people would understand what was happening. But of course, that isn’t true at all. Even though we are literally right on the brink of an apocalyptic war with Iran, most of the population doesn’t seem too concerned. But they should be. The Iranian regime has already shown that it is willing to gun down tens of thousands of its own people. When it comes to securing the survival of their regime, there is no…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A popular rock structure in Italy known as the “Lovers’ Arch” collapsed on Valentine’s Day following days of poor weather. The natural formation, which was part of the Sant’Andrea sea stacks along southern Italy’s Adriatic coast, was often used as a backdrop for tourist photos and wedding proposals, according to Reuters. “This is an unwanted Valentine’s Day gift,” Maurizio Cisternino, the mayor of the nearby town of Melendugno, was quoted as telling a local newspaper. Cisternino described the collapse as a “very hard blow” for the area after days of heavy rain, strong winds and rough seas. 2 SKIERS…

A while back, I covered a few observations gleaned while working with a dozen rifle owners in both classroom and range settings. Having just repeated that process with a similar group, several new takeaways have emerged. The first is that while the class centered around improving each rifle’s accuracy potential, range testing made clear that not everyone has the same ideas about suitable ammunition for such work. As was the case last time, this group’s age ranged widely, from late 20s to early 80s. They were more experienced than the previous riflemen, both in the shop and on the range.…

The car is racing across the high Utah desert, your foot pressed to the gas, but someone else is steering and you’re blindfolded — like a high-speed trust exercise with an Abu Ghraib aesthetic.  As the hood is pulled from your head, you grab the wheel, scant feet and split seconds for quick decisions as the car speeds toward an obstacle course and makeshift checkpoint. One wrong move and you’ll spin out or end up in the scrub; in the real world, it would be a crash or worse.  It’s a drill meant to press your reaction time and test…

Some Army officers will be shuttled into new job specialties or even transferred to a different service as certain jobs are eliminated, Military Times has learned.The restructuring cuts come on the heels of a service-wide officer career field review conducted over the last 10 months, Brig. Gen. Gregory Johnson, the Army’s director of Personnel Management, said in an interview. The officer functional areas, or career fields, that are affected include Force Management, Functional Area 50; Acquisitions, Functional Area 51; Simulations Operations, Functional Area 57; Strategy, Functional Area 59; and Marketing, Functional Area 58.The entire officer populations of these job specialties…

“Missed Peleliu because of that damn thing.” The old 1st Marine Division veteran massaged a spot on his upper chest and grimaced. “Told us we could fire that mortar from the prone and get direct fire into Jap bunkers. I was one of the first to give it a whirl. Broke my collarbone.” The T-20 Garrett shoulder-fired mortar was developed to meet a specific need. It worked, but at a cost. Image: U.S. Bureau of Ordnance He was talking about his experience with the Garrett 60mm shoulder-fired mortar, an innovative Allied response to tenacious Japanese defensive fortifications in the Pacific, that proved…

Fresh off the line from TOPS we’ve got El Chappito, the frankly adorable, shrunk-down, EDC-sized brother of the company’s famous heavy duty cleaver. El Chappo is a bit of a modern legend in the TOPS lineup. Designed, like many of the company’s signature blades, by TOPS CEO Leo Espinoza, El Chappo impressed not only with its obvious capability in the kitchen, but by its robust build quality that allowed it to tackle some chores not strictly speaking of a culinary bent; when we first covered El Chappo in 2018, we dubbed it an “outdoors-oriented cleaver.” El Chappito on duty The…

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