On March 12, 2026, Letterkenny Army Depot confirmed the death of a soldier during training that morning. An investigation by Tasmin Mahfuz of WGAL, an NBC affiliate in Lancaster, Penn., has since revealed that Pfc. Krystofer Lopez (posthumously promoted to Specialist) was shot in the chest by an Army SIG Sauer M17 handgun.
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After speaking with Lopez’s parents, WGAL discovered that Lopez died on day one of firearms instruction.
“He said, ‘I got training tomorrow,’” mother Carmen Lopez told Mahufz.
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Those looking to take on the Army’s infamously difficult Ranger School will have to start by fixing bayonets, then run through smoke, razor wire, and machine gun bursts, hop in a trench, and stab the enemy with cold steel.
In April, Ranger Class 06-26 became the first to, well, take a stab at the school’s new bayonet course, a quarter-mile event in which students crawl through tunnels, sprint over open fields, and negotiate barbed wire fence lines. Along the way, students must drive their bayonets into silicone foes toting rubber Kalashnikovs and manning sand-bag machine gun nests.
A major counter-drone exercise taking place in Europe this month has demonstrated U.S. soldiers’ additive manufacturing prowess, according to an officer involved in the experimentation and training event.
The effort, dubbed Flytrap 5.0, is being held at Pabradė Training Area in Lithuania, May 1-15. Led by the American Army’s V Corps, it involves the 2nd Cavalry Regiment; 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command; 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment; the United Kingdom’s 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment; and other allies and industry partners.
When a veteran passed away in 2023 from heart disease, their family asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-connected benefits they believed their death triggered.
An automated system at the VA reviewed the request and two days later approved payments totaling $22,692.
But the system was wrong, an Inspector General report found in April, and not for the first time.
In all, the VA system approved “at least” $2.7 million in incorrect payments between September 2023 and August 2024, the VA Inspector General found in a new report.
The US Department of War (DoW) has awarded new framework agreements to several technology and defence firms as part of efforts to scale up its low-cost containerised munitions and hypersonic missile solutions.
Veterans with a disability rating might have seen the news that a new bill in the Senate would increase their disability payments. While it’s certainly good news (and necessary legislation), it’s just how the business of keeping disability payments in line with inflation is done.
On May 11, 2026, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran introduced S.4487 – Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2026. The bill would do exactly what its name implies: adjust benefits to match inflation and maintain purchasing power for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Self-propelled artillery is driving the global artillery sector, with Europe and the Asia-Pacific way out in front as top markets.
Sweden Ballistics has raised €30m in funding to finalise the construction of its trinitrotoluene manufacturing facility in Nora, Sweden.
…the best we can do, really…
Ethan Gossrow over at Naval News did a detailed look at the carrier portion of the 30-year shipbuilding plan that gives some texture for those who, like myself, are concerned about the slow approach to bringing new carriers online.
Even though today is no different from any other day over the last half decade, there are those who will continue to try to explain why the USN’s CVNs are “obsolete” and not worth the investment.