Military and First Responders

Two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler jets slammed into each other midair during an aerial demonstration at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show near Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on Sunday, sending both aircraft spiraling to the ground in a fireball visible for miles. All four crew members ejected and survived. The collision occurred at […]

Medet Zheenaliev, a 30-year-old former mixed martial artist from Kyrgyzstan, drowned Tuesday after entering the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul to save four girls caught in a powerful current, Fox News reported. Divers recovered his body the following day. Zheenaliev and a friend spotted the girls swimming in the lake when one of them was reportedly […]

America’s fire departments are losing ground. Volunteer ranks have dropped by roughly 200,000 over the past two decades, career positions have barely grown, and the number of emergency calls has tripled, a collision of trends that a veteran firefighter says is putting both crews and the communities they serve in real danger. Jason Cerrano, a […]

Two U.S. Army soldiers vanished near ocean cliffs in southwestern Morocco on Saturday after a day of multinational military drills, and a joint American-Moroccan search-and-rescue operation has so far failed to find them. The soldiers disappeared near the Cap Draa Training Area close to the city of Tan Tan, roughly 15 miles from Morocco’s Atlantic […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 American soldiers from Germany, the Pentagon confirmed Friday, a move that will reshape the U.S. military footprint in Europe over the next six to twelve months and send an unmistakable message to NATO allies still dragging their feet on defense spending. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell […]

The U.S. Navy wants $3 billion in new funding to replenish Tomahawk cruise missiles burned through in the war against Iran, a staggering request that reveals just how fast a real shooting conflict can empty America’s arsenals. The ask landed inside the Pentagon’s broader $1.5 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2027, released this week, […]

A Russian An-26 military transport plane slammed into a cliff in annexed Crimea on Tuesday, killing six crew members and 23 passengers in one of the deadliest Russian military aviation disasters in recent years. The crash adds to a growing list of incidents that raise hard questions about the readiness and maintenance of Moscow’s aging […]

A substitute teacher at an elementary school on a North Carolina military base was fired after parents complained the individual wore fetish-style clothing, claimed to be a wolf, and frightened kindergartners with talk of turning into a werewolf at night. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed the firing on X, posting on Feb. 19 that […]

Four Houston firefighters found themselves in harm’s way early Sunday morning, caught in a violent clash of metal on a rain-slicked highway. While responding to a traffic collision on US 59 North near exit 151 in north Houston, a firetruck from the Houston Fire Department was struck by an 18-wheeler, sending four firefighters and the […]