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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Imagine a car breaking down and having to be transported 7,000 miles for repairs. Now imagine that vehicle is a critical asset needed to keep families and neighbors alive. For modern warfighters, this logistics bottleneck is not a hypothetical scenario. It is a harsh operational reality known as “the last tactical mile” – the high-stakes battlespace where a military capability is delivered and where its reliability and endurance matter most. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a tremendous amount of cargo space on military aircraft was dedicated to moving repair parts forward or retrograding damaged equipment. In a contested…

Dive Brief: A greater proportion of manufacturers are reshoring operations this year compared with 2025, according to the 2026 Reshoring Survey Report from the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting. This year, 36% of 118 OEM respondents said they had reshored or were actively engaged in reshoring, up from 29% last year. OEMs said their top reasons for reshoring since January 2025 were tariffs, geopolitical risks and being closer to their customers to shorten delivery times. In fact, 63% of OEMs said they plan to make capital investments in reshoring or domestic expansion. Manufacturers are actively reshoring and investing despite significant…

Many kids dream of being in the military while others have gold medal aspirations for the Olympics. By the time they get older, those kids become adults and have likely picked which lane would be the best for them. Major Eli Bremer of the Air Force Reserve Command is not like most kids. Where most people would have seen two visions, he saw one unified dream. “There was never an ‘or’ question in my mind. It was always ‘and.’” How Both Became a Reality Bremer grew up near the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and knew in his…

MMA Fighting has Taylor vs. Pili results for the Katie Taylor vs. Flora Pili fight card and more for one of the most highly anticipated events of the year at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday afternoon.Check out Taylor vs. Pili results below.Taylor vs. Pili Main Card (DAZN PPV at 2 p.m. ET)Katie Taylor vs. Flora PiliDave Allen vs. Thomas CartyPaddy Donovan vs. Tyrone McKennaTaylor Bevan def. Emmet Brennan via sixth-round KOTaylor vs. Pili Prelims (MMA Fighting LIVE now)Molly McCann def. Sylwia Doligala via unanimous decision (80-72, 80-73, 79-73)Joe McGrail def. Matthew Boreland via fifth-round KOBobbi Flood def. Jack…

A KONGSBERG StrikeMaster anti-ship missile launch vehicle has been deployed to the remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen as part of Operation Atlantic City, bringing land-based anti-ship fire capabilities to a major Norwegian-led NATO exercise in the High North. Footage released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows the StrikeMaster vehicle being escorted across the isolated island by soldiers from the Norwegian Home Guard’s District 11. The arrival of the platform introduces a vital sea-denial and coastal defense element to the multinational activity, which ran from 26 August to 4 September under NATO’s broader Arctic Sentry enhanced vigilance initiative. Multinational Integration…

President Donald Trump tapped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ top official to be the service’s senior civilian leader, bypassing the Army’s No. 2 civilian to promote a former congressional staffer. Trump announced his choice via Truth Social on Thursday evening. “I am pleased to announce that Adam Telle, the current Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, will become Acting Secretary of the Army, effective immediately,” Trump wrote, adding, “He is a Great Patriot, who is respected by all.” Telle’s selection comes after former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who championed modernization and acquisition reform, resigned this week amid…

Key PointsCENTCOM disabled or destroyed three Iranian oil tankers on September 5 after Iran fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy ships, which evaded the attacks unharmed.The strikes follow a pattern since February’s Operation Epic Fury, including a fragile June ceasefire and a July strike on more than 80 Iranian targets.U.S. Central Command forces struck and disabled three Iranian oil tankers on September 5, hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships patrolling the region, according to a CENTCOM statement. Both American vessels, an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer, evaded the Iranian…

The unexpected surge of 162,000 jobs added to payrolls last month drove the unemployment rate for the post-9/11 generation of veterans down more than a full percentage point from 4.7% in July to 3.5% in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.The unemployment rate for all veterans also came down from 4.2% in July to 3.4% in August — compared to the overall unemployment rate of 4.1%. This comes as the economy rebounded from the negative job creation numbers recorded in July, when employers shed 23,000 jobs.The 162,000 jobs added in August blew past most analysts’ expectations of 53,000…

Moraes, 38, originally made a name for himself after winning the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) bantamweight championship back in 2014 and then defending it five successful times. That landed Moraes a UFC contract in 2017, but the talented fighter never quite lived up to his hype. Moraes certainly had his moments — including fighting Henry Cejudo for the vacant UFC bantamweight title in 2019 — but ended his UFC career on a four-fight losing streak. The Brazilian fighter tried his hand outside of UFC, but he went 0-3 under the Professional Fighters League (PFL) banner.Back in April, Moraes decided…

The White House has reviewed candidates to potentially replace Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, three people familiar with the discussions told Reuters, a sign that more leadership change could come for a Pentagon already facing unusually high staff turnover.The effort, which was under way in June, has included conversations with senior lawmakers in the Senate about whether the administration’s picks would have enough support to be confirmed, said two of the people, one of whom added that the review was still going on as of late August. Reuters could not determine when the White House began considering candidates. The…