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It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and since most of you are already 12 Pabst Blue Ribbons deep, no commentary this week. I’m taking the Pats alllllllll day. -BK  Watch for PJ August O’Neill: WASHINGTON —  As fans don their colors Sunday to show support for their teams during Super Bowl LI, the Defense Department will also show […]

Let’s actually read it: WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Brooklyn came to the aid of scores of refugees and others who were trapped at airports across the United States on Saturday after an executive order signed by President Trump, which sought to keep many foreigners from entering the country, led to chaotic scenes across […]

Everyone knows it sucks to be the medic. Especially the medics themselves. You have to carry more shit, go to a bunch more schools, be kinda smart, and then, when the shit hits the fan, you’re dragging dudes behind cover instead of dealing death. For years, in the combat medicine world, it has been SOP […]

A pararescue legend hangs it up: HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. –Over the course of his thirty-year career, he was decorated nine times for actions that saved dozens –if not hundreds– on and off the battlefield. He was a major command pararescueman of the year, an Air Force Pitsenbarger Award recipient valor under fire, and AF pararescue […]

Deep breath, people: Thousands of American soldiers have been deployed to Poland amid rising tensions with Russia. Poland’s Prime Minister welcomed the troops today – which US security officials said would “deter and defend” during their deployment. Around 4,000 soldiers have been sent to Poland as part of an operation intended to boost ties with […]

This will end badly: CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Three enlisted female Marines are reporting to a ground combat unit in North Carolina and are among the first women in the service to do so. 1st Lt. John McCombs, a Marine Corps spokesman with the Second Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, says the three report […]

What a year, folks. Another 12 months of bringing you the best in military news, pop culture, crime, politics, and nudity, now in the books. Here is a month-by-month breakdown of some of the stories we covered in an epic 2016. Thank you to each and every one of you out there for reading and […]

A very Merry Christmas to all of the SOFREP readers out there! I was going to do the regular news roundup, but everything has pretty much shut down for the week, so there wasn’t much in the way of news anyway. Even the social justice warriors have all gone home to lecture grandma about their preferred gender […]

(Mostly) commentary-free Roundup this week, kids. See you next week. —BK You have to be SHITTING me. You are a better man than me, my friend: ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A veteran shot and paralyzed after a Cardinals game last year made a moving show of generosity towards the family of the man who shot […]

This might be peak Social Justice Warrior: They had come to join Native American tribes and environmentalists protesting an oil pipeline, fully expecting to endure tear gas and rubber bullets. But in the end, veterans who traveled to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation found something far more profound. Inside the auditorium at a reservation casino, […]

An article filled with half-truths, exaggerations, and absurdity: Hundreds of young women on track to join ground-level Army units over the next year would lose their positions if the Trump administration reimposes a ban on women serving in front-line combat. I had no idea what I was going to write about this week. Until, that […]

“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.” – Adlai Stevenson Castro, the guerrillas, and the revolution: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in the Oriente province in Eastern Cuba on August 13, 1926. His father, Angel Castro y Argiz, was an immigrant from Spain who had become wealthy growing sugar cane. Being the son […]