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During a shutdown the troops keep working while pay stalls, VA care stays open as support slows, and military families shoulder the bills Washington will not pay.

Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, a combat tested pilot, is the White House pick to steer budgets, training, and modernization as the next Air Force Chief of Staff.

Hegseth walked into Quantico, kicked the stool out from under the Pentagon’s therapy culture, and told the brass we’re done preening and back to making warfighters who can carry the ruck, drive on and win the fight.

Two hundred Guard troops are rolling into Portland to guard federal turf, but if they step off the curb from perimeter security into street policing the mission shifts from fence-sitting to a legal minefield.

Once again a deranged man turned a quiet Sunday service into the killing fields.

Standing on Little Round Top’s granite spine for the fifth time, I can still trace where Chamberlain’s exhausted 20th Maine pivoted on cold steel and, against repeated assaults, shattered the Alabama charge and saved the Union flank.

A gunman came by water and left by water—a drive-by with a propeller that turned Southport’s postcard bar into a battlefield in the time it takes a guitar riff to fade away.

Gathering 800 flag officers isn’t leadership—it’s pageantry that burns money, time, and focus we can’t afford to waste.

We became the heirs of liberty who preached equality while conquering, cleansing, and corralling a people we called “savages,” and the question still hangs in the air: will we learn from that betrayal—or repeat it?

When the SECDEF orders 800 of the nation’s top brass to Quantico without a whisper of an agenda, that’s not a meeting—it’s a thunderclap that rattles coffee cups from Ramstein to Okinawa and has every colonel quietly checking his golden parachute.

The GAO’s report confirms what military families already lived through firsthand—that TRANSCOM gambled billions on an untested contractor, covered up its failures, and left service members holding the bill while senior leaders escaped accountability.

New York dodged a telecom bullet this week when the Secret Service yanked the cord on a SIM farm big enough to strangle 9-1-1 and light the city on fire with chaos in minutes.