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Guy D. McCardle is a sixteen-year veteran of the United States Army and most recently served as a Medical Operations Officer during OIF I and OIF II. He holds a degree in Biology from Washington & Jefferson College and is a graduate of the US Army Academy of Health Sciences. Guy has been a contributing writer to Apple News, Business Insider, International Business Times, and Medical Daily. He has over 8,000 answers and more than 30,000 followers on Quora, where he is a top writer on military topics. McCardle is the Managing Editor of the SOFREP News Team, a collective of military journalists.
A Quiet Homecoming The first piece I wrote for SOFREP, way back on March 10th of this year, was about a Canadian Sniper that goes by the nickname of Wali. Wali went to Ukraine to put his considerable skills to use as part of the International Legion fighting against the Russians. Today, Wali is back […]
Don’t Go Below The Hard Deck We all find high-speed, low, altitude flying exhilarating to watch (if the box office that Top Gun: Maverick is doing is any indication). Still, the reality of the situation is that it is hazardous. The ground can be pretty unforgiving when traveling near Mach speeds. Oh, and for the […]
The FBI has raided three Churches in Georgia and Texas on suspicion that they are targeting service members and veterans to defrauding them out of their benefits and pay.
We have recently learned of the death of photojournalist Maksym (Max) Levin. Who was murdered by Russian military forces after being captured.
If you are anything like me (and the chances are that you are because you are reading this site), you’re an animal lover, and Ukraine citizens are rallying to find ways to save them.
For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, death sentences have been handed by Russian-backed troops to foreign fighters.
A bit of a lighthearted note before we get started here. Doesn’t the Russian recruiting blow-up guy look more than a little bit like Stan’s dad on South Park? Sometimes we find humor in the strangest places.
Who would have thought that a well-known Hollywood actor who has played a male nurse and a scowling model would end up in the capital of a war-torn country meeting with a former Ukrainian actor who is now President of that country? It sounds like it could have come straight off the pages of a movie script, but it didn’t. This is real life in 2022.
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” – Ronald Reagan
Now that Russia has control of the rubble that was once the city of Mariupol in Ukraine, the magnitude of the civilian losses is becoming known to the world.
The Ukranian Special Forces unit, known as the “Kraken” are trading in their privately owned pickup trucks and SUVs for Estonian donated armored cars known as the Alvis 4, a UK-made version of the South African Mamba combat vehicle.
Small but Mighty US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), on May 19th, issued a notice of intent to buy an undisclosed quantity of Sig Sauer’s MCX short-barreled rifles as personal defense weapons (PDW) under a five-year sole source contract. As a result, special Operations Forces (SOF) will finally be receiving a much-requested ultra compact PDW to […]
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