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National Guard units are beginning to receive the Army’s new automatic rifle replacement, the M250.
Though a number of active duty units are already using the M250, the Minnesota guard’s 34th Infantry Division was “among the first” guard units to bring it online, Army officials announced in a release. Soldiers learned the basics and began training with the new automatic rifle at earlier this month at Camp Ripley, the unit’s training base.
The M250 machine gun replaces the M249 as the heaviest and most powerful weapon carried by individual infantry squads.

At some point in every conversation with civilians, a military spouse will get the question: “How are you guys doing?”
It happens in the school pickup line, at the dentist’s office, during a FaceTime with a college roommate who now lives in a cul-de-sac where no one ever leaves for more than a business trip. It’s a normal, harmless question, unless your life is being held together with caffeine, duct tape, and the sheer force of will required to manage a household in your partner’s absence.
Then it’s a trap.
Because telling the truth would take too long.

A Fort Hood sergeant convicted in April of nearly 30 crimes — including rape, kidnapping, burglary and robbery — died in his prison cell on Friday.
Sgt. Greville Clarke, 32, who was sentenced to 112 years in prison without parole, was found unresponsive in his cell in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to an emailed statement from Maj. Travis Shaw, an Army spokesperson.
The statement did not include a cause of death. Leavenworth emergency services attempted to resuscitate Clarke, but he was “pronounced deceased,” Shaw said.

29th Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Official Portrait (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

War Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly issued a highly unusual order directing hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to assemble next week at a Marine Corps base in Virginia — on short notice and without explanation — a move that shocked military leaders.

America’s Navy faces a challenge: maintaining readiness with a strained industrial base in the face of rising threats. Ships are harder to maintain, repairs take too long, and outdated processes prevent proven technologies from reaching the fleet.
Fortunately, leaders have moved thoughtfully to fix these problems through recent reconciliation funding and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026.

“Did you go to Airborne just to pull security for ICE?” a billboard asks in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The billboard is one of two put up last week in North Carolina outside of two of the largest military bases, the Army’s Fort Bragg and the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.

When Lt. Col. Rhonda C. Martin was 19 years old, she unintentionally walked into a Marine recruiting office on her way to join the Peace Corps.
More than four decades later, she is the longest-serving active duty Marine, according to a service press release last week, and is set to celebrate her retirement at the end of the month.
She began her 42-year career as an administrative specialist, going on to serve as a drill instructor — though women were not allowed to don the iconic campaign cover at the time — before earning a commission as an officer in 1996.

Aerospace engineers at BAE Systems in Lancashire, UK are on the brink of industrial action following a dispute over pay.

KNL, a Finnish software-defined radio maker, is joining forces with Babcock to advance communication technologies for global defence markets.

Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
President Trump adopted a new policy for aggressively developing advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum communications