A Montana couple has been stockpiling an emergency food supply and survival gear in case of disaster - and say they have enough to last up to three years. They have everything from a satellite phone to 55-gallon water drums, four generators, solar panels, and a three-year emergency food stockpile with a 25-year shelf life.
A Montana couple has been stockpiling an emergency food supply and survival gear in case of disaster - and say they have ...
On the first day of the 2026 Best Sapper competition, 1st Lts. Bryce Sullenger and Christopher Barrett rushed to a swimming station, read over the task and challenge, and hit the water. They swam, got out and were told they had to swim an additional 50 meters each. They had missed part of the challenge and made a crucial mistake. That threw them off, especially because it was so early in the competition, when a lot of points were at stake. “We just had to brush it off our shoulders and move on t
The Army is adding more soldiers to some of its most overworked units, creating a new job that will operate and maintain the service’s largest air defense systems, officials confirmed to Task & Purpose.The Air and Missile Defense Systems Repairer will be trained to “troubleshoot, fault isolate, repair, service, modify, fabricate, and inspect” Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems, officials announced in an April 1 military personnel message. The job’s
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For two months, Congress has failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard. The resulting partial government shutdown has caused fear and uncertainty for many Coast Guardsmen and their families.Adm. Kevin Lunday, the commandant of the Coast Guard, warned Congress during an April 16 hearing that the service has been unable to pay 5,000 utility bills due to the shutdown. He added that more than 100 providers have “threatened to cut off electricity and water to
Dear Doctors: My son's family is taking their first road trip vacation this summer. I want to pack up a first aid kit for them and could use your advice. It's him and his wife and two boys, 12 and 14.
Federal authorities have arrested and charged an Army Special Forces soldier with using classified information to place bets on the Jan. 3 raid that whisked Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro out of a secure compound and into U.S. custody.Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, placed bets that totaled about $33,000 on the timing of U.S. operations in Venezuela, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. He allegedly netted more than $409,000 in winnings through Polymarket. Van Dyke was assigne
I’m an older programmer but I spent my career staying up to date. I’ve managed that for 36 years give or take. Now with AI doing a lot of my current job I can see that there’s a definite end point where the combo of competing with younger programmers for a shrinking pool of work is going to get tough.However there seem to be a few niches where I could be productive until I’m ready to retire and there might be an opportunity to join a team working on a system they’re trying to get off of. My q
Hi HN, we're Manik, Manoj and Harshith, and we're building CORE (https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/core), an open source AI butler that acts and clears out your backlog.Write `[ ] Fix the search auth bug` in a scratchpad. Three minutes later, without you at the keyboard, CORE picks it up, pulls the relevant context from your codebase, drafts a plan in the task description, and spins up a Claude Code session in the background to do the work. You review the output in the
Quite annoying but obvious and somewhat expected trend of AI labs seeing open-source projects, repackaging it e.g. openclaw.ai as Cowork or more recent agenthandover.com as Chronicles in Codex...<p>It is expected to happen, but perhaps some credits/offers should be on the table, no?
From one of the most intelligent humans I’ve ever known…“Hardware engineers are coming up now that software people are just AI babysitters now”and then the generic idiot of the group said:“AI is coming for us all AI is going to start designing boards and chips soon if it hasn’t already.”Man…i love generic baseless shit-talking. It makes it very easy to identify the parrot in the room.and for that…out of animosity…i’d like to propose a challenge.I think an hour is probably enough. Personally, I’d
My dad and I built a SQL layer for DynamoDB (DynamoSQL) because we kept running into the same problem: we needed to query information across multiple tables (or multiple record types within a single table) and had no good way to do it. We would either duplicate data across lots of records (denormalize everything upfront) and hope we guessed right, do multiple fetches and join in application code, or export somewhere else entirely.We tried PartiQL but it doesn't support JOINs and the aggrega
i built omens because i was spending 4-5 hours a day doomscrolling; now i spend basically 0 minutes doing that, as ai filters my feeds down to what actually matters to me- omens connects to x, reddit, telegram, and rss - it's byo ai api key, scores posts for relevance, shows a filtered feed, and generates reports - you can upvote/downvote each post to "nudge" ai to show you some stuff more and some stuff less - i personally use kimi k2.5 turbo with firepass (because i already
Karma-Gotchi is a digital disciplinary device disguised as a health and wellness EDC (everyday carry).
An Army veteran attempting to wield South Carolina law to sue a military contractor won a major Supreme Court victory Wednesday, carving out a narrow legal lane for those seeking to hold wartime contractors to account.The ruling allows a former soldier to use state injury laws to sue a U.S. business whose Afghan employee gravely wounded him in a 2016 suicide bombing. While the decision doesn’t curb the Feres doctrine, a 1950 court ruling that prevents troops injured on active duty from suing the
After decades of flying the AV-8B Harrier II and the F/A-18 Hornet, the Marine Corps is going all in on the F-35.Besides being stealthy, the jet has far more advanced sensing and data-sharing tools than anything the Marine Corps has flown in the past, an asset that service officials say will be vital on future battlefields.But the F-35 is as complicated as it is capable, and bringing a jet that advanced into the demolition derby of expeditionary warfare requires a shift in how the Marine Corps t
First, the Army got a remote-controlled Black Hawk. Now it is a step closer to getting an autonomous Chinook, after a CH‑47F Chinook successfully landed in testing without a pilot. The test flight is a major milestone as the Army increasingly explores automating parts of its air fleet.The test flight comes as the Army has begun implementing major cuts to its pilot and aviation corps, targeting 6,000 positions of crews and pilots to be cut.Word of the flight came from Chinook manufacturer Boeing,
Olight created its own proprietary LED (light-emitting diode), which reportedly achieves 10% luminous efficiency at high ...