Congress

Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens won his Republican primary race for governor of Missouri on April 2, 2016, beating out three other candidates.

They are a diverse group: Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) served in the military police in Kuwait. Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) flew A-10s for the Air Force, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) served in the Iowa National Guard. But they are speaking together in Congress just as […]

MeRT technology has achieved unprecedented success rates in both open-label trials and placebo-controlled, double-blind studies. To date, 98% of veteran PTSD/TBI patients have responded positively to this treatment option

To me, foreign policy is the de facto charter of a modern president. Foreign policy ultimately affects our economy and our people in the long run to a greater extent than domestic policy, which can be amended. Fractured relationships and loss of influence cannot be altered over a congressional year.

Military people are passionate people, and SOF is very much so and aggressive. In my limited experience, but with open eyes, D.C. needs people who have life experience and understand service. A cultural problem on the Hill is that some who serve there believe that their service supersedes others.

SFAS is known as a grueling 21-day program in which candidates are identified only by a number, such as a “Candidate 122,” and receive the majority of their instructions from dry-erase boards.

Women are set to attend SOF training and join the force as operators, but the system may not be prepared to receive them.

Female candidates are allowed to attend Special Forces selection. But many are forced to wait for indeterminate periods of time before attending.

the U.S. Air Force wants to field a 200-kilowatt laser cannon by 2020 — and it appears to be three-quarters of the way to getting it

The Marine Corps has hired an independent review team lead to look at Class C aviation mishaps.  Class C mishaps, the lowest class, have doubled over the last year amid the current aviation readiness crisis. FighterSweep community, we had a recent article regarding the state of military aviation readiness.  Now it appears the Class C […]

Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally,

Far from the corridors of Congress, where virtually any kind of gun legislation is dead on arrival and the gridlock has turned into political theater, bare-knuckle battles over firearms are raging in state capitals. From Sacramento to Trenton and Tallahassee to Des Moines, lawmakers, interest groups and activists skirmish almost daily over pending legislation to […]