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"Are You An FPV Pilot": Pentagon Calls On Drone Operators For Next "Gauntlet" Showdown
The Department of War has put out a request for service members with "FPV experience" to participate in testing events called “Gauntlets” and fly Category 1 drones in field training exercises to accelerate drone development and prepare the US for the next conflict, where drones, robotics, and automated kill chains dominate the modern battlefield.
"Are you an FPV pilot? We want to hear from you!" DoW asked on X on Friday morning.
"The Drone Dominance Program is recruiting service members with FPV experience who would like to be considered as pilots for future Gauntlets and related efforts," the request said.
The Drone Dominance Program is the DoW's answer to purchasing large quantities of drones across every category, from 1 to 5, and building out a domestic supply chain of components free from dependence on conflict areas and countries such as China, which can easily weaponize supply chains to hinder procurement.
Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that Autonomous Warfare Command, dubbed "AutoWarCom," is set to accelerate the DoW's purchases across all categories of drones, robotics, and AI.
What's key is that drone procurement will be a massive part of the rearmament supercycle and provide tailwinds to drone companies, such as heavily shorted Ondas, whose Ultra drone could very well see ramped-up orders by the military as it's seen as an MQ-9 Reaper alternative for ISR missions.
"Once we apply sustained budget to changed doctrine, we will outperform the world," said Owen West, a former Marine, assistant defense secretary, and Goldman Sachs trader who has been tasked with leading the DoW's Defense Innovation Unit. "And by snapping in AI, we will be ahead of the world, because we are the leaders in AI."
Failing Canada And Britain Blame Trump, Putin, And 'White Supremacy'
by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the "Dumb and Dumber" of the British Commonwealth.
King Charles III's North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada's economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.
In the same interview with the failing Times, Con-man Carney outlined his intent to integrate Canada's economy with that of China and the European Union and to replace the U.S. Dollar with a China-linked global reserve currency. Rhetorically defending Canada's sovereignty while insulting his U.S. benefactor, Little Mark Carney explained how he would subjugate his socialist nanny-state to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mark is the global mascot for "educated" idiots everywhere.
Not to be outdone by not-so-Great Britain's Canadian cousin, U.K. Prime Minister Poindexter (er, I mean Andy Burnham) informed the United Nations General Assembly last week that his government was constructing yet another speech-police organization (this one given the august name, "National Centre for Information Defence," which should not be confused with the "Research, Information, and Communications Unit," the "Government Communication Service," the "Counter Disinformation Unit," the "Defending Democracy Taskforce," the "Information Threats and Influence Directorate," the "Rapid Response Unit," the "National Cyber Force and Social Cohesion Taskforce," the "Media Monitoring Unit," or any of the other information-control agencies already mobilized across totalitarian Britain) to protect the British people from scary thoughts and words. Burnham blamed the Russians for spreading "a narrative of decline, stoking division, and sowing despair" in the U.K. (and definitely not Westminster's promotion of decline, division, and despair!) and promised to counteract this "information warfare" by censoring Britons' public speech and feeding his collapsing country a steady diet of State-sanctioned propaganda. In order to beat back the Russians, Dilapidated Britain must have its very own digital Iron Curtain! Two cheers for democracy! Hip hip...who cares.
The British people are screwed. On average, their government grants settlement or citizenship to an illegal alien every single minute. These foreign nationals receive more welfare from British taxpayers than ever before. The third-world invaders (I mean, "newcomers") use Britain's streets as public toilets. Rather than securing the kingdom's borders, the Home Office hands out a nine-page booklet informing mostly-Muslim men of military age that it is illegal to rape women and children while they conquer the islands. In the last two years alone, the number of illegal immigrants (and future citizens!) arriving by boat has exceeded the size of the entire British Army! But if these outrageous facts disturb you enough to publicly express your feelings on social media, you will most likely join the roughly 65,000 Brits who have been arrested for "speech-related offenses" over the last five years. Foreign invasion? Good! Free speech? Very bad!
Apparently, the British police state also plans to imprison anyone who would rather not fight WWIII against the Russian Federation. During a recent episode of former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg's "State of the Nation" on GB News, one leftist-globalist commentator in favor of mass conscription argued, "We would have to lock a few people up...some of the pro-Russian voices, people saying there isn't a threat, don't fight for your country, don't go to war for Burnham, we'll have to lock 'em up." Rather than responding with horror at the suggestion that his fellow Britons should be imprisoned for opposing a catastrophic war, Rees-Mogg pedantically replied, "Well, we suspended habeas corpus during the Napoleonic Wars...indeed, yes." In another interview, Rees-Mogg nonchalantly remarked that British citizens have a "duty" to "die" for Britain in a war against Russia.
In Burnham and Rees-Mogg's Britain, the only way to "defend democracy" is to imprison anyone who disagrees with the British Establishment and to sacrifice everyone else to the killing fields! The British Isles might as well be renamed the "Gulag Archipelago."
Interestingly, GB News - which leans conservative - discovered last week that Britain's media regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), had covered up data showing that viewers trust GB News more than the BBC. GB News, in fact, is ranked above all other networks with regard to viewpoint diversity and impartiality. British authorities apparently did not want the public to know these inconvenient truths because the BBC is treated as an objective, trustworthy, and premier source of news (fact check: false!). In an effort to control the public's perception of the BBC, Ofcom restricted what information the public was permitted to know. P.M. Burnham takes the "defense of information" very seriously!
How seriously? Burnham and the British government force citizens to pay for the BBC's awful dreck whether they watch it or not! Every household in the U.K. must fork over a £180 license fee to the BBC each year. Because more households are refusing to pay the license, the government is considering the imposition of a mandatory £11-a-month Internet tax in order to keep the BBC's fake news funded. The BBC says that the "fee is essential for maintaining the quality and diversity of public broadcasting in the UK."
What does "quality and diversity" look like at the BBC? Two "reporters" just did a major exposé describing how women who don't polish their nails perpetuate "white supremacy." No joke! "Nail art's historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures," the BBC "reports." "They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty." Yes, Burnham, force Britain's working-class to pay for this race-baiting propaganda posing as hard news!
Earlier this year, British authorities announced that YouTube and other social media platforms would be forced to manipulate their algorithms and push BBC "news" to the top of feeds in order to counter "disinformation." In other words, Whitehall steals money from British citizens to pay for State-run TV and then forces them to watch it. During the Cold War, we called that Soviet-style propaganda. Yet if you ask the fake "reporters" at the BBC, Canada's publicly-funded CBC, or America's NPR or PBS, all these propagandists would insist that they have nothing in common with the Soviet Union's Pravda or the Russian Federation's RT (Russia Today) News. In the West, State-funded media are somehow not State media. Does that sound more like propaganda or breaking news?
Britain's State-imposed "narrative control" is utterly totalitarian. Dismissing the "narrative of decline" and "despair" in Britain as a "corrosive narrative...which bears no resemblance to reality" and a "distorted and untrue narrative about Britain," P.M. Burnham casts all public dissent as "far-right narratives." As military historian Professor Michael Rainsborough mocks, "The problem isn't the problem, the problem is the people noticing the problem." Rainsborough points out that right after Burnham rebranded "decline" as "disinformation," the prime minister laid out a "10-year plan" to fight inflation, housing costs, hopelessness, inequality, and division. "The narrative of decline," in other words, "bears no resemblance to reality, although reality apparently requires a 10-year plan."
Both Canada and Britain are failing. The public has noticed. Carney and Burnham wish to whitewash reality with fake "narratives." The worse things become, the more difficult it will be for their ministries of truth to succeed. Expect the BBC to blame Trump, Putin, and "white supremacy."
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Medicare Improvement Fund Payments for Seniors
IMPROVING MEDICARE FOR SENIORS: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the federal government will be making one-time payments of $90 per person to help more than 20 million enrollees pay for their Medicare Part B premiums. Payments will be made from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which has been given $2 billion by Congress for the purposes of making improvements to the Medicare fee-for-service program, but has never before been utilized.
Most eligible seniors will receive the payment in the form a direct deposit of $90 in early October. Those without direct deposit will receive a check, also sent in early October, to the mailing address they have registered with Medicare.
Most Medicare Part B enrollees are eligible for the payments. Those whose premiums are already paid by Medicaid or who pay an Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount do not qualify.
Seniors can call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) to check on their eligibility for the premium rebate. Beneficiaries who want to check on the status of their payment should call the Social Security Administration at 1-800-772-1213.
HISTORIC ACTION TO HELP SENIOR CITIZENS: With this action, President Trump is the first President to ever use the Medicare Improvement Fund to directly lower costs for senior citizens. Established in 2008, no Administration has ever utilized or made payments from the Medicare Improvement Fund.
Previous Congresses used the Medicare Improvement Fund in ways that increased healthcare costs for the American people, such as when Democrats raided $20.7 billion from the fund as part of the Unaffordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
President Trump believes that Medicare Improvement Funds should be used to directly help people on Medicare, not special interests, and is returning healthcare dollars back into the hands of the American people to benefit them and their individual healthcare needs.
LOWERING HEALTHCARE COSTS AND GIVING MONEY TO THE PEOPLE, NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS: President Trump is delivering on his promises to lower costs for American patients by putting them first and taking on the special interests that have used the status quo in Washington to raise healthcare costs for Americans. The Trump Administration is cracking down on fraud and corruption, lowering healthcare costs for Americans, and putting the American people over big health insurance companies after the Biden Administration’s mismanagement of Obamacare resulted in massive levels of fraud, higher costs for Americans, and massive profits for big health insurance companies.The Trump Administration has taken the strongest actions ever to protect the integrity of the exchanges, including ending loopholes used to fraudulently enroll individuals.
In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to empower patients with clear, accurate, and actionable healthcare pricing information. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has ramped up enforcement against hospitals that are out of compliance with price transparency rules and strengthened price transparency rules for hospitals and insurance companies.
In May 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to bring the prices Americans and taxpayers pay for prescription drugs in line with those paid by similar nations. The Trump Administration has reached 26 deals with pharmaceutical manufacturers, covering nearly 90% of the branded drug market.
In his historic Working Families Tax Cuts Act, President Trump expanded access to health savings accounts for up to ten million people on Obamacare and took the most significant actions to reduce healthcare fraud and abuse in history, enabling the largest ever investment in rural healthcare – $50 billion.
On September 10, 2026, President Trump announced the Working Families Obamacare Refund to send nearly 1 million Americans $500 each who had been overcharged for their Obamacare coverage by the Biden Administration.
President Trump is calling on Congress to enact the Great Healthcare Plan to lower drug prices, lower insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies accountable, and maximize price transparency.
Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks texted mystery persons about his 3D printer and ‘gifts’
President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, exchanged messages with an “unknown contact” about 3D-printed “parts” and seemingly chatted in code words with another unidentified individual, FBI documents released Friday show.
The electronic communications were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Judicial Watch — weeks after The Post reported on Crooks’ experiments with his 3D printer, which included building a firearm.
“Did you 3D print the parts?” read a Feb. 9, 2023, message Crooks received on his Samsung device from an individual described by the FBI as an “unknown contact.”
Several hours later it appears that Crooks responded, “Yes, except for the fan blades.”
The two then appear to discuss their coursework at different colleges.
The messages are among dozens included in the newly-released documents that were “deemed pertinent” to the investigation of the July 13, 2024, Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., the FBI noted.
“Woah that looks cool,” the unknown person texted Crooks just before asking about the “parts,” in response to a completely redacted message sent by the would-be Trump assassin.
Federal investigative records obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and reviewed by The Post last month showed that Crooks’ father told investigators that his son owned a 3D printer and once tried to fashion his own handgun.
“Using carbon fiber plastic, a dryer and a toaster oven, Thomas did once create a Glock 19,” the gunman’s father, Matthew, told investigators.
Matthew explained that he tried the 3D-printed gun out, but only fired a single round from it because he feared the frame would explode.
Matthew indicated that he did not allow Thomas to use the 3D-printed Glock 19.
Judicial Watch also obtained bizarre communications described by the FBI as a “chat thread” between Crooks and a recipient whose name is redacted.
The conversation occurred between May 21, 2023, and January 3, 2024, and is largely comprised of one– or two-word messages and character strings.
“Hello … Hello red …Hello red … Hdudhdbdbbd … 7888ejdj …Yolo … Ddodjjf … 890 … Hdjd … Djdj … red … Yup red … Hello … Jhhhuuh … Hhdj … Jjjjjjjjjjjj … Hello red … Red red,” are among the messages sent by Crooks.
The incoming messages Crooks may have been responding to are not included in the document.
Messages from Christmas Day 2022 show Crooks appears to have traded “gifts” with an unidentified individual.
“Thanks for the gifts,” read one incoming text.
“Your welcome. Thanks as well,” Crooks appeared to respond.
It’s unclear why the FBI determined that these communications were “pertinent” to their investigation. Reps for the bureau did not respond to a request for comment.
The documents further show that the FBI was able to extract images and flight logs from Crooks drone.
Between February 6, 2024, and February 27, 2024, Crooks snapped aerial photos of PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively, as well as railroad tracks and other locations arounds Western Pennsylvania.
Data from a drone flight in Butler from the day of the attempted assassination was also pulled, several hours before Crooks took aim at the 45th president during a campaign rally and opened fire, striking Trump in the ear, wounding two attendees — James Copenhaver and David Dutch — and killing one, Corey Comperatore.
“These latest records reveal more pieces of the puzzle surrounding Thomas Crooks,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
“The FBI should stop the slow drip of heavily redacted records and immediately provide the full investigative record — especially since the death last week of James Copenhaver, who was severely injured from being shot during the assassination attempt on President Trump.”