Someone recently posted in a preparedness forum asking whether 14 bags of dry beans and 4 bags of rice (three of them brown) were still worth keeping after sitting on a pantry shelf for 12 years. No Mylar bags or oxygen absorbers, and not in sealed cans. Just original store…

Aerospace & Defense 18,000 Meals a Day, 160 Gallons of Milk, and 400,000 Gallons of Fresh Water: What it Takes to Keep a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier at Sea A nuclear aircraft carrier carries roughly 5,000 people and Navy cooks prepare upwards of 18,000 meals a day. That takes…

U.S. forces boarded and then later sank an alleged “floating refueling station” on Friday, U.S. Southern Command said. The raid is the latest incident of direct U.S. military action in and around Ecuador in the last two weeks in coordination with the country’s government. The USS San Antonio tracked and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing a wave of online blowback after dodging questions about his ties to far-left streamer Hasan Piker, a frequent presence on the campaign trail in Michigan.When asked about Piker’s influence on his campaign, El-Sayed told reporters…

Published Aug 29, 2026, 3:00 AM EDT Military Will Pay Up to $10,000 for Egg Freezing Under New Active-Duty Pilot Program Military cryo-preservation approval follows failed legislation that would have covered IVF treatments for active-duty service members across the U.S. Sign in to your Military.com account Lab staff prepare small petri…

United States Space Force Published Aug 28, 2026, 7:41 PM EDT Trump Signs Order to Create US Space Academy, New Pipeline for Space Force and NASA Trump signed an order launching plans for a U.S. Space Academy that could educate future Space Force Guardians alongside NASA professionals. Sign in to your…

We’re currently going through this ourselves, considering what to keep and what to toss, and I’ll be honest … it’s not a comfortable place to be. On one hand, we’ve got food storage we need to thin out. On the other, food prices keep climbing, and part of me wonders…

The video argues that ATF Director Robert Sakata publicly confirmed the agency will comply with Judge Hendricks’s injunction and will not enforce the challenged NFA provisions against protected parties. The speaker emphasizes that this is significant because it is the first clear public statement from ATF that official guidance is…

Veteran Published Aug 29, 2026, 3:00 AM EDT Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart Return for Veterans Benefit That Has Raised $117M Bruce Springsteen returns to Stand Up for Heroes, the veterans benefit that has raised $117 million, for its 20th anniversary in New York. Sign in to your Military.com account Bruce Springsteen…

I came across an article today about a wild animal encounter in Poland: “Wild Video Captures Giant Bison Flattening Tourist, Refusing to Let Him Escape.”As the title suggests, a tourist got too close to a European bison, which proceeded to knock him flat. Several nearby people acted to save the…

A Gallup Korea poll reported that 65% of South Koreans support the country having its own nuclear weapons, while 30% oppose the idea. The poll surveyed 1,001 adults nationwide from Aug. 25-27 and was published on Aug. 28, 2026. The article’s main takeaway is that support for indigenous nuclear armament…

Aerospace & Defense China Freaked: The US Navy Surfaced 3 Nuclear Ohio-Class SSGN Guided Missile Submarines as a 462 Tomahawk Warning That Soon Can’t Be Repeated In 2010, three American guided-missile submarines surfaced at almost the same moment in three separate places: USS Ohio at Subic Bay in the Philippines,…

For years I kept both our vehicles stocked the way you’re supposed to with full get-home bags, tools, extra water, vehicle fluids … the works. I think my wife and I fought over trunk space once or twice. 😉These days most of my wife’s trunk space is taken up by…

Aerospace & Defense 20 Decommissioned Royal Navy Submarines Have Sat in Dock Since 1992 Because the UK Had No Way to Dispose of Them. Astute-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Royal Navy. As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first…

The video presents a self-defense incident involving a rideshare driver who says he was attacked by a mob outside a college apartment complex after a parking dispute, then fired one shot when he feared serious bodily harm. It argues that he tried to de-escalate first, used pepper spray and verbal…

I believe my daily prepping digest suggested this article on How Long Can You Actually Survive Without Food, Water, or Sleep, and I thought the conclusions were interesting and informative.Although I recommend reading the article now for the several interesting examples provided, and understanding that there are massive variables which…

My latest Amish Inspirational, “The Amish Nanny’s Marriage Offer,” hit #3 on the June 8 Publishers Weekly Bestseller List!Here’s the cover: Here’s the backcover blurb:Searching for a safe new life, she never imagined she’d lose her heartFleeing Pennsylvania with her son, Amish widow Winifred Amman is desperate to escape the…

Aerospace & Defense The US Navy Says the Hormuz Mine Routes Are Now Clear. It Took 4.5 Months, and China Holds 100,000 More Cooper claimed the routes; Trump claimed the strait; Tehran claimed only it knows where the mines are. Behind Friday’s announcement: the four-and-a-half-month clearance, the weapon that has…

The video argues that a budget AR-style rifle can become far more capable when paired with high-end accessories and tested hard. The creator moves from a $600 Ruger Harrier to a heavily upgraded setup with a premium optic, laser, light, suppressor, bipod, and a $450 Rare Breed FRT-15C3 trigger, then…

Our 3-bin compost setup is a lot of work. I’ll be honest about that upfront.We’ve got food scraps going in, dead leaves piling up in the fall, grass clippings through the summer, and at some point you’re out there in the heat turning it all with a pitchfork. Then you’re…

Aerospace & Defense 80,000-Ton Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Collided with Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Moving at 15 Knots: Pieces of the Submarine Stuck to the Carrier’s Hull At around 10:05pm on March 21, 1984, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine surfaced almost directly beneath an American supercarrier in the…

Military Daily News Published Aug 30, 2026, 9:14 PM EDT US Strikes Iranian Rocket Launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in First Military Action in Weeks Iran swiftly vowed to retaliate for what it called a deadly attack. Sign in to your Military.com account Crowds fill a street during celebrations marking…

NASA launched its newest flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets. The mission is intended to produce the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe yet and to survey the cosmos with a panoramic view.…

Aerospace & Defense Russia Sees 65% of America’s Air Defense Missiles Gone from the Iran War and Putin Might Sense Weakness US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS estimates the war consumed roughly…