Sailors should expect that the Navy will once again require them to take physical fitness tests twice a year, as mandated by the Pentagon, the service’s top enlisted sailor told Task & Purpose.
“What I believe is going to happen — because the [Navy Administrative Message] has not been released yet — is we will go to two PT tests a year,” said Master Chief Officer of the Navy John Perryman. “For the majority of our sailors outside of our combat arms ratings, it will be the PT test we take now. It will just be given twice a year.”
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US President Donald Trump is seeking to reshape how the US operates in the defence space through the FY26 NDAA.
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U.S. Special Operations Command is gearing up to experiment with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities, and it’s now soliciting information from industry and other organizations that want to demo their technologies.
SOCOM will host an experimentation event in April at Avon Park Air Force Range in Florida to identify and assess emerging tech and give participants the opportunity to gain insight and feedback from special operations forces, according to an RFI released Friday.
If you could flip a switch and feel like a 30-year-old again, you would’ve done it yesterday.
You’ve choked down caffeine like it’s rocket fuel. You’ve done the 10-step morning routines, cutting carbs, the 5 a.m. miracles, the keto crusades, the ice-bath insanity. Still dragging by lunch.
Face it: if sheer grit and Google searches were enough, you’d be a walking dynamo right now. You’re not. The reason? Your mitochondria are on life support.
Modern life is a cellular mugging—stress, bad food, blue light, all stealing what your mitochondria are screaming for.
Multiple provisions put forward by the House Defense Modernization Caucus made it into Congress’ compromise version of the annual defense policy bill for fiscal 2026 — including proposals that are intended to advance the U.S. military’s counter-drone arsenal, empower the defense innovation ecosystem and spark more seamless opportunities for collaboration between industry and the Pentagon.
Reps. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., and Rob Wittman , R-Va.
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I still remember the early 2000s, playing video games in my basement bedroom and counting down to high school graduation. When it came to shooters and strategy games, one metric was the most important of all to me and my friends: Realism. We wanted realistic military games.
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Marine Sgt. Derrick McMillian, a recruiter based in New York City, did not hesitate when he saw a man fall onto the subway tracks in Manhattan recently.
McMillian quickly jumped onto the tracks and worked with others to pull the man to safety before an approaching train arrived, a Marine Corps news release says.
“I didn’t want to be a bystander,” McMillian said in the release. “Seeing the man fall, I knew I had to help. There was no time to waste with the train coming.