The Navy SEAL community and the wider U.S. Navy is heartbroken this Memorial Day weekend to have lost another one of our own. As reported by WABC New Jersey and the Associated Press, an as-yet-unidentified Navy SEAL died on May 28th when his parachute failed to open during a demonstration jump over the Hudson River, […]
Flooding is one of the most significant environmental dangers, and one that confronts millions of Americans every year. In 2016, for example, there were 19 separate floods that ravaged parts of the country, including one in Louisiana that killed 13 people and destroyed roughly 60,000 buildings. In Missouri, where this author lives and serves as a […]
Another day, another North Korean missile launch. This time, the hermit kingdom tested a Hwasong-12 missile on Sunday, May 14, 2017, which reached an altitude of 2,111.5 kilometers (approximately 1,300 miles) and flew 787 kilometers (approximately 500 miles), according to the state news agency KCNA. The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on May […]
The Washington Post is reporting today that during his meeting last week in the White House with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, President Donald Trump boasted of U.S. intelligence information on ISIS, specifically pertaining to threat information from a highly sensitive “liaison” reporting stream. Here are the salient facts in the […]
During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on May 9, 2017, head of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), Admiral Mike Rogers, informed the senators that the United States had sent a warning to French government officials that Russia was penetrating French computer systems ahead of the French […]
The head of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), General Raymond “Tony” Thomas III, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 4, 2017, and informed lawmakers and the public that the country’s elite special operations forces could not solve all of the world’s problems. “We are not a panacea,” said the Army General, former […]
Taking care of yourself and your family is a continuous, ongoing process that requires you to constantly assess and reassess your security situation and needs. In other words, one must be constantly thinking about how his or her own security needs are changing, and then one must adapt to the current threat environment. Take, for […]
Here at SOFREP.com we delve into myriad issues beyond news and information on U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) and intelligence agencies. The topics covered range from everyday carry (EDC) to how to survive a mass shooting. We touch on nearly everything in between, as well, from personal security and weapons to everyday tactical thinking. We want […]
“The sound of an AC-130 Gunship has had our enemies looking to the skies in fear for the last 50 years,” the narrator tells us at the start of a U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ground attack aircraft this month. The airframe is basically a fixed-wing transport aircraft […]
In what may have been one of the most head-shakingly and politically stupid ideas in recent memory, a proposal in Congress that was to have come before the House Veterans Affairs Committee on April 26th would have imposed a new $2,400 fee on service-members who wanted to sign up for the GI Bill upon leaving […]
Allow your intrepid author to begin with this caveat: Neither I nor any other former SEAL, Ranger, Marine Raider, Special Forces guy, or CIA officer has his or her shit totally together all the time. I am not here to fool you into believing that. Lots of us do have our shit together a good deal of […]
Navy SEAL Lieutenant (junior grade) Brandon Myers knew something was off the day he decided to run the fabled BUD/S obstacle course over his lunch break in August 2015, while assigned to SEAL Team 7 in Coronado, California. According to a profile in the official Naval Special Warfare (NSW) blog, Ethos Live, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native and […]
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