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FORT CARSON, Colo. – Capt. Keneally Phelan, Director of Intelligence with 4th Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), was named the 2025 recipient of the Lt. Gen. Sidney T. Weinstein Award for Excellence in Military Intelligence at a ceremony held on Fort Carson, CO, Oct. 30, 2025. She is the first “Original” from the 10th SFG(A) to receive the award, which recognizes exceptional leadership and commitment within the Military Intelligence (MI) Corps. The Weinstein Award was established in 2007 to honor Lt. Gen. Tom Weinstein, known as the “Father of Modern Military Intelligence.” His innovative vision transformed Army Intelligence, shaping…

Remembering Our Pearl Harbor Fallen On this day in 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the US fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The result was 2402 killed by enemy action and 21 ships damaged or sunk, including 8 battleships, with two permanently lost (USS Arizona and USS Utah). Understandably, the event plunged the United States into World War II. Let’s all take a moment to consider those who gave it all for freedom and the American way. We ow them a debt we can never repay. This entry was posted on Sunday, December 7th,…

By GunSpot Posted in #Gear #Skills Here at GunSpot, we use an XD-M Elite Tactical OSP for our videos and it’s one sweet piece. With the flared magwell, threaded barrel, suppressor sights and our U.S. Optics DRS 2.0 mounted, it’s a sharp-looking gun. A solid pistol like the XD-M Elite from Springfield Armory deserves a great weaponlight like the Surefire X300 Ultra. The last piece to the tactical set-up would be adding a weapon-mounted light. For that we decided on the X300 Ultra from Surefire. The X300U-A ultra-high-output LED weaponlight has a tight 1,000 lumen beam which is…

The ability to monitor outside activity from behind locked doors, or while away, is a decided safety advantage. Unfortunately, criminals have developed tactics to defeat the modestly priced devices. A new twist surfaced in Rocky River, OH, in October 2024. Law enforcement was notified after a mailman noticed multiple homes on his route had their video doorbells covered with blue tape. None of the residents reported anything suspicious beforehand, hinting that the culprit may have been a seemingly routine visitor. Cameras were cleaned, patrols stepped up and incidents didn’t increase. Homes that left their cameras blind were readily identified targets.…

Mountain Hardware – Stretchdown Quilt Measuring 59″ x 82″, the Stretchdown Quilt from Mountain Hardware uses 650-fill down for lightweight warmth and compressibility. It features an integrated stuff sack which can be used as a pillow when stuffed. Additionally, the bottom hem snaps and folds into ‘Foot Warmer’ to keep feet warm inside the quilt and the edge snaps form a poncho that allows you to wear the quilt hands-free. The color is Mantis Green which fits in pretty well with most of SSD’s readership. www.mountainhardwear.com/p/stretchdown-quilt This entry was posted on Sunday, December 7th, 2025 at 11:00 and is filed…

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Department of the Army activated the U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command in a historic transition ceremony today at Fort Bragg, uniting U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army North and U.S. Army South into a single, four-star operational headquarters. The ceremony also marked the casing of the U.S. Army Forces Command colors and the retirement of FORSCOM’s commanding general. Gen. Andrew Poppas, who has led Forces Command since July 2022, is set to retire after more than 37 years of service. “Today we become something new,” Poppas said, “but FORSCOM’s spirit of readiness, resilience and warfighting…

The 6th Generation of Glock has finally been officially revealed, and the changes are substantial. 9 major changes over the Gen 5, with some really surprising features added. For those of us who say Glock doesn’t innovate, it doesn’t really look like that has changed with Gen 6. But Glock at least listens to the market and has incorporated improvements that many shooters have been asking to see for several generations. Glock Gen 6 ChangesPALM SWELL: The palm swell contours the pistol to the natural curvature of the hand.RTF6 GRIP TEXTURE: The Gen6 grip texture (RTF6) combines two textures into one to…

U.S. Marine Corps engaging with the Archer Strike FPV Drone System (Photo by Cpl. Joshua Barker) ?El Segundo, CA – Neros Technologies has been awarded a multi-million delivery order contract with the United States Marine Corps to provide advanced small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) — including kinetic-strike capable FPVs — together with comprehensive operator training and support, across the Fleet Marine Force (FMF). The award underscores the Marine Corps’ push to rapidly field combat-proven, American-manufactured drone technologies that ensure asymmetric effects capability by expeditionary combat units—at scale. Built without Chinese components and certified under the Department of War’s Blue UAS…

By Peter Suciu Posted in #History This past June, the Portland Air Guard Station, Oregon, reached a new milestone, receiving its fourth Boeing F-15EX Eagle II just before the first anniversary of the base receiving the first of the modernized F-15 aircraft. The Oregon Air National Guard had been selected to be the first operator of the Eagle II, and with the arrival of the latest aircraft, is making progress towards receiving the planned 18 multirole fighters. It was also that month that the White House announced that the United States Air Force’s total planned fleet size…

Any professional shooter will tell you that accuracy is nothing more than a byproduct of control—the precarious balancing act of a three-by-three skillset matrix. To put it all in perspective, accuracy is technically defined as the degree to which a shooter’s average point-of-impact (POI) aligns with the intended point-of-aim (POA). It is a measure of correctness rather than consistency. Accuracy describes where the group lands relative to the target’s center (provided your firearm is appropriately zeroed), not how tightly the shots cluster together. In technical marksmanship, ballistics and performance diagnostics used across military, law-enforcement and competitive shooting communities, accuracy is…