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A Navy wife and a veteran herself, Bailey was already making plans to not receive their paycheck on Wednesday, a fear that was threatening to become such a political liability that President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered the Defense Department to find other funds to ensure military pay continues next week.

Good time to contact your elected official... Thune and Johnson signaled that President Donald Trump’s White House may shift money around to pay troops. Still, their decision to pass up a vote on military pay — if they stick to it — is a risk for Republican leaders, who are facing rank-and-file pressure to ease the burden of the shutdown on US service members.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure U.S. troops are paid Wednesday despite the government shutdown. Trump said in a social media post that he was acting because “our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th.” No, he is doing this because it has become a political liability, he could care less about anyone's paycheck, just ask those who were let go by doge and those federal workers that he has said he is going to fire during this shutdown...

As he begins firing federal workers, as a tactic to get at politicians to act to his liking... The trump administration has, for now, ruled out Congress enacting a short-term fix to pay members of the military who risk going without a paycheck next week and is instead looking at other ways to address the issue.

The Barracks Task Force will be led by the Assistant Secretary of Waah for Energy, Installations and Environment. The team must develop an initial barracks plan within the next 30 days that will identify investment opportunities and create department-wide policies for barracks standards that will prioritize air and water quality for troops, according to the memo.

A series of upgrades and modernizations at Pearl Harbor are preparing the Honolulu Naval Base for all three hypersonic-armed Zumwalt-class destroyers and up to three hypersonic-armed Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines. The move is a significant relocation of the U.S. Navy’s hypersonic equipped combatant force for a potential war with China. A coordinated modernization effort is underway across Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam to bring the naval station up to spec for a large number of new ships and submarines that will homeport in Hawaii beginning in mid-2028. Construction efforts by NAFVAC at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam are preparing berth space and drydock capabilities to base and repair Zumwalt-class destroyers and Virginia-class attack submarines, according to several documents published by the service and viewed by Naval News.

There have been an average of 27 new measles cases reported each week since the end of August, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The annual total – now up to 1,563 cases since January – is the highest by a significant margin since measles was declared eliminated in the US a quarter-century ago.

Well this is a good one!

This one is shrouded in secrecy... A US Embassy naval officer died on the premises in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on October 2, 2025, and the cause of death remains unknown. Local police were blocked from investigating the incident due to diplomatic immunity, and the U.S. Embassy assumed control of the situation. The Embassy doctor confirmed the death, and the body was transported from the scene on October 4, 2025. However, the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian claims that the Navy Officer died by suicide. US Naval officer dies by suicide, local police not informed

This violent mentality is now starting to infect national guardsmen. In the long term this will have a negative effect on military members who have always had the support of citizens, but most likely no longer... An ICE agent pepper-sprayed a pastor, David Black, directly in his face; a group of agents seized a rabbi, Michael Ben Yosef, and brutally beat him. According to Adam Dzurko, a 23-year-old protester, ICE “dogpiled on [Yosef] like a football, punched him, threw him around like a rag doll, just tossing him around.” Yosef ended up in the emergency room. So, too, witnesses say, did an octogenarian woman who was simply holding up a protest sign. For that sin, agents pushed her to the ground, and she hit her head on the asphalt, cutting her head and arm. Fellow protesters scooped her up and rushed her to the hospital.

Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state. Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.” ** Federalism is a system of government that combines national and regional governments within a single political system, dividing governing powers between them. In the U.S., this means power is shared between the federal government in Washington, D.C., and state governments. Key benefits include promoting regional autonomy, serving as a "school of citizenship," and preventing tyranny by avoiding the concentration of power in one level of government.

The U.S. Navy fired the commanding officer of the USS Wyoming Blue Crew, the service announced Wednesday. Cmdr. Robert Moreno was relieved of his duties by Rear Adm. Bob Wirth, commander of Submarine Group Ten, due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command.

But according to the insider: 'Now that's he's Secretary of Waah his sense of self-importance has gone to his head – along with his vanity. 'And even though he strutted about the stage like a peacock when he gave his insulting lecture to the military brass, he still doesn't garner respect. 'He made a minor speech to important people, and he was still upstaged by Trump.' When asked for comment, the Department of Waah did not directly address whether Hedgehog had had Botox treatment and instead attacked the Daily Mail for writing an article about it.

Heads up that as the government shutdown continues, official Navy news releases have pretty much dried up. Meanwhile I'll continue to post topics that are popular on this forum such as UAP (perhaps one of the most popular,) commander-in-chief escapades, and the follies of Hegseth to name a few. Fingers crossed that the shutdown ends soon.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that Russia would swiftly carry out a nuclear test if the United States did so, noting that the U.S. had been working to get its testing infrastructure ready, the state RIA news agency reported.

Just last month, Hedgehog staged a similar cosplay stunt as he met with sailors and Marines off the coast of Puerto Rico to deliver a chest-thumping message to the crew aboard USS Iwo Jima. Cosplay, a blend word of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.[1] Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage

From disbanding a gender advisory board to misrepresenting women’s ability to meet combat standards, the Secretary of WAAH’s record shows a clear mission: push women out of service.

A younger veteran whom I mentored calls me “Madam Geezer.” It’s meant affectionately, recognizing my “old salt” perspective. It also acknowledges that I have lots of sea stories, many starting “Back in my day…” or “Back when I was in the fleet…” In the mid-1970s, coming home from a family gathering in Brooklyn, I saw a destroyer sailing into New York harbor. It was a clear, crisp fall day; the water was like glass. The ship was steaming at speed with a large white bow wave and the national ensign stiff in the breeze. I turned to my dad and said, “I want to be part of that.”

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a U.S. Navy sailor accused of injuring an 87-year-old man in a car collision in February. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-10-08/navy-sailor-indicted-japan-collision-19355643.html Source - Stars and Stripes

A sitting president, demanding that elected officials be imprisoned. Let that sink in. Over their objections, he federalized troops from Texas to enforce his will. This is not theater. It is not a tweetable grievance. It is an unprecedented assault on constitutional norms, federalism, and the rule of law. And yet, the media’s reaction in certain circles will almost certainly be muted. And it absolutely should not be — and cannot be.

Unbelievable that trump put himself in this predicament where Russia actually said that "trump would ultimately decide against their provision because he knew how to listen." The Anchorage summit was a humiliation and that is Putin's take on the matter: That trump knows how to listen (to Russia of all countries.) Putin warned that the weapons would mark a “qualitatively new stage of escalation” because Ukraine could not fire them without the U.S. personnel. He suggested, however, that Trump would ultimately decide against their provision because he knew how to listen.

I don't particularly like Senator Ted Cruz but this bill is worth considering... WASHINGTON—Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is calling for changes to the legal system to better protect consumers from government censorship, a move that comes weeks after he criticized the Trump administration’s push to have late-night host Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air. A recent drop in Kimmel’s ratings before his suspension “means my podcast was kicking Kimmel’s ass every week,” Cruz said. The two have previously sparred on social media and played a charity basketball game in 2018 after Kimmel compared the senator to a blobfish.

A U.S. Navy sailor was extorted for thousands of dollars after connecting with someone on the dating app Tinder in a case that highlights the growing threat of online scams, authorities tell WTKR News 3. A search warrant filed in the case reveals the sailor believed he was messaging with a 20-year-old woman named “Daisy”.

In short, he is laying the groundwork for a police state, and he is doing so in broad daylight, assuming that our constitutional guardrails will bend and fold, as they often have under more-piecemeal pressures since his second presidency began just nine months ago.

WASHINGTON — Gulf War illness, a debilitating medical condition linked to military service, has received formal recognition as a legitimate illness after more than three decades of reports by veterans about unexplained symptoms they developed during active duty in the Persian Gulf. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-10-06/gulf-war-illness-cdc-19340971.html Source - Stars and Stripes