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The Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) is the principal defense policy advisor to the President. Under the direction of the President, the Secretary exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense is not a Joint Chiefs of Staff on steroids. It’s a policy implementation role, final authority, and principal liaison to the […]

This is the final week of this three-week baseline program. After this, we’ll move towards more rucking and durability work. TRAINING: 1) 3 rounds 1-mile repeats – run 1 mile as fast as possible and rest the amount of time it took you to run the 1-mile. (equal work/rest)   2) 5 rounds: 45% Max […]

Washington D.C. — House leaders introduced the final conference report for the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Nov. 30 authorizing up to $100 million to special operations forces to combat terrorism. The inclusion follows reports that President Barack Obama is expanding the authority of Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to hunt terrorist cells […]

Washington, D.C. – House members pass a provision within the recently-introduced Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization that would make permanent joint training exercises led by special operations forces. This provision within the NDAA was pushed by House Democrats. The NDAA and the House Armed Services Committee continues to be a bi-partisan and professional environment despite […]

Washington, D.C. – House leaders introduced the final conference report for the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act Nov. 30 containing a provision to reorganize Special Operations Command and provide its assistant secretary with increased powers to oversee its activities. Under its report for the fiscal year 2017 NDAA, the Senate Armed Services Committee empowers the […]

Today Team PT is a glimpse into future end of week sessions – long distance movements. Training: If you have a Ruck: Ruck 5 miles at a comfortable pace. If you don’t have a ruck or would rather Run: Run 7 miles at a comfortable pace. In either effort, feel free to break up the miles into […]

Warm up: Get warm, loose and sweat. Training: 1) 6 rounds: 3 x Squats 3x Box Jumps 3 x Broad Jump (start standing in place with a slight bend in the knee, without your feet leaving the ground jump forward as fast as you can and allow your feet to do the landing.)   2) […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to introduce comprehensive legislation to strengthen sanctions against Russia. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) told a Center for Strategic and International Studies forum on transatlantic security Nov. 17 that he would press for new sanctions to punish Russia for its aggression towards Ukraine, […]

Training: 1) 8 rounds for time: 5 x Power Clean #95/115 3 x Burpees 25 x Step ups 2) 3 rounds: 300m shuttle every 3:00  “Set cones 25m (82ft) apart.Run from cone to cone, touching the line at each turn around for 12 lengths or 6 laps = 300m total of running.We do this on as a density interval, […]

None of America’s four military services rates higher than “marginal,” according to the Heritage Foundation’s 2017 Index of Military of Strength, published Nov. 16. Sequestration funding cuts have reduced defense spending by approximately $78 billion in real dollars since 2011, leaving each branch ill-equipped, the report said. The Army scored lowest among the other branches […]

Law enforcement killed a suspected assailant who injured nine people at Ohio State University after plowing a car into a campus crowd and attempting to stab survivors with a butcher knife, news services reported Nov. 28. Law enforcement officials have reported the suspect’s name is Abdul Artan, an 18-year-old Somali refugee, and student at the […]

Washington, D.C. – The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is seeking more information on an innovative Special Operations Command program that seeks to engage the private sector. Dubbed “SOFWERX,” the initiative creates a forum for accelerating the acquisition of innovative capabilities to SOCOM. Within the House version of the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization […]