Rattlesnake Wranglers Help Conserve Michigan’s Only Venomous Snake at Military Base

An adult male eastern massasauga rattlesnake was captured by volunteers at Camp Grayling on May 6, 2025. The snake was brought to a small field lab at the military base to be measured, tagged with a microchip, and checked for health problems. (Sheri McWhirter/MLive.com)

GRAYLING, Michigan — It’s snake week at Camp Grayling. Each spring, dozens of conservation researchers and volunteers descend on the Michigan Army National Guard base in northern Lower Michigan for four days of scientific rattlesnake wrangling. Venomous eastern massasauga rattlesnakes are captured in what’s called a “blitz style” field survey, then are carefully inspected by […]

Pentagon Hiring Freeze Hits Army, Space Force Base Day Care Centers in Colorado

Peterson Main Child Development Center

Day care centers at Peterson Space Force Base and Fort Carson in Colorado are disenrolling some families and pausing waitlists amid staffing issues, the latest impacts of the Trump administration’s hiring freeze throughout the federal government. Two memos, reviewed by Military.com and confirmed as authentic by base officials, both express issues with ongoing staffing challenges […]

Despite 99 Arrests, Redstone Arsenal Still Wrestles with People Bringing Guns on Base

Redstone Arsenal Gate 9

Ever since Alabama passed a law allowing permitless carry, more and more people have been getting arrested for bringing guns onto Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. Since the start of 2023, when the new law took effect, 99 people have been arrested for illegally bringing firearms onto the military base, according to Redstone officials. And the […]

Hegseth Scraps Fort Moore Name in Latest Move to Undo Congress' Base Renamings

Official Fort Moore sign unveiled at a redesignation ceremony

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced that he is renaming Fort Moore — the name chosen to honor decorated Vietnam Army commander Hal Moore and his wife Julia — less than two years after the base was scrubbed of its previous name honoring a Confederate general. The Army will return the famed Georgia base […]

How Trump's End to Federal Remote Work Could Affect This Alabama Base

An aerial view of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

President Donald Trump’s order this week for federal employees to return to in-person work covers tens of thousands of personnel at Redstone Arsenal, though its daily impact might be relatively minimal. Trump’s order on remote work, signed the day he was inaugurated into his second term, stated, “Heads of all departments and agencies in the […]

1 Dead, Suspect Arrested After ‘Active Shooter’ Situation at Georgia Army Base

back of police car

One person is dead and a suspect is in custody following a shooting at an Army base in east Georgia Saturday morning. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was shot “in on-post housing” at Fort Eisenhower, just outside Augusta, in what the base described as an “active shooter” situation. An alert issued on […]

NJ Military Base Had 11 'Confirmed' Mystery Drone Sightings, Army Says

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a press conference in Newark, N.J.

Picatinny Arsenal, the Army facility in Morris County, has had 11 confirmed sightings of unauthorized drones flying over in its airspace in recent weeks, military officials said. The first confirmed sighting at Picatinny witnessed by a police or security officer at the arsenal was Nov. 13, five days earlier than previously reported, Army officials said […]

Georgia Army Base Struggling with Power, Potable Water After Hurricane Helene

Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center following Hurricane Helene

Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, has been without water for days and has had much of its electricity knocked out, leading to evacuations of families and soldiers after Hurricane Helene. The Army base in Augusta was closed down on Sunday following the storm, meaning no one who doesn’t work or live there is permitted on post. The […]