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When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits South Korea this week, he will face off against one of the most dangerous enemies to military readiness: Facial hair.
Service members with shaving waivers are not allowed to attend the event with Hegseth, which will be held at Camp Humphreys, according to an email from the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan Air Base, South Korea, which was posted on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco page.
An Air Force official confirmed that the email is authentic and that Hegseth will meet with troops as part of his visit to South Korea.

Thousands of military families won’t receive federal food assistance next month as the government shutdown impacts funding to fight food insecurity. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that it would not be issuing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits this month, due to the ongoing government shutdown. A partisan notice on the USDA’s website on Monday said funding had expired.
“Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01,” the notice says.

President Donald Trump has formally submitted the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday for Coast Guard commandant.
The nomination was sent to the Senate on Oct. 23 and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov and a congressional source.
Lunday has been serving as acting commandant since January, in the wake of the firing of Adm. Linda Fagan shortly after Trump took office for his second term. Prior to that, Lunday was vice commandant.
His selection for the top job didn’t come as a surprise.

Female drill sergeants will begin wearing the same distinctive campaign hats as their male counterparts, an Army spokesperson confirmed on Monday.
Any soldier who has gone through initial entry training will instantly recognize the broad-rimmed campaign hats currently worn only by male drill sergeants, which bear more than a passing resemblance to Smokey the Bear’s headgear.
Task & Purpose has confirmed that both active-duty and Reserve female drill sergeants will start wearing the campaign hat on Jan. 2.

Automation technology is evolving, with robotic process automation having evolved into intelligent automation.

Celebrating 250 years of Devil Dogs making the grass grow, the oldest firearms manufacturer in the world announced a special shotgun dripping with classic Marine Corps energy. The limited-edition A300 Ultimate Patrol Raider takes Beretta’s American-made, semi-auto shotgun and decks it out with an iconic Frogskin camouflage that Marines wore in the Pacific during World War II. To make this Marine Corps birthday boomstick even more hard-charging, the Commemorative Edition of the Raider includes a bayonet.
The Marine Corps’ birthday is November 10, 1775.

If we ever find ourselves working in Venezuela’s thick green, it won’t be the politics that break you first. It’ll be wildlife with too many legs and zero f’s to give about your mission timeline.
You can prep for jungle warfare all you want; nothing in the field manual covers “thing that screams at you before it attacks” or “parasite that rents room under your skin.

Saab has revised its organic sales forecast upwards after registering a 17.2% increase in fiscal 2025 (FY25) third-quarter (Q3) sales.

The U.S. military is hemorrhaging talent in cyber warfare, which national security experts warn could lead to America being outgunned and outsmarted by adversaries such as China, Russia, or Iran, who could use cyber weapons to wreak havoc on American military and civilian infrastructure. 
The only way to fix it may be to start a seventh branch of the military: a Cyber Force.
There are currently about 225,000 service members, civilians, and contractors who work in cyber fields across the Defense Department.

Thales and Kongsberg have completed a successful live firing of a NSM from the StrikeMaster missile launch vehicle in Norway.