Jack Murphy

I was told years ago by an aviator that they were padding the maintenance hours on these aircraft… -Jack The Air Force has fired the commander of a special operations squadron a week after a CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in his unit crashed in Florida, NBC News confirmed on Thursday. Lt. Col. Matt Glover, who […]

Who would win in a sniper competition between Rob and Brandon?  Listen to the interview to find out! We go behind the scenes with ASAS Sniper Elite Rob Maylor.  You’ll hear about his time spent with the Royal Marines 40 Commando, the training he received in the UK including sniper school and much more. Later […]

By now everyone is familiar with the massacre that took place in Norway on the 22nd of July last year. Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people, before descending upon the Worker’s Youth League camp on Utøya island. There he shot and killed an additional 69 young people while […]

First could you explain some of your background to us. Years in service, rank, MOS, deployment locations, units deployed with, other pertinent details… I spent 12-years in the Army Reserves (1982-1994), took a 14-year break, and joined the National Guard in 2008. While in the Reserves, I served basically as a generator repair tech, and […]

When I first read about The Activity in a USA Today article I thought, “holy shit, those guys have a comic book?!” Intelligence Support Activity is SOCOM’s more secretive, and compartmentalized unit. To tell you the truth, even those of us in SOF knew very little about them or what kind of operations they had going […]

Cogito (Ergo) Vivo – You haven’t lived ‘til you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know. This observation, which is embraced by every combat veteran I know, has been adopted as the motto of the Special Operations Association. The very first time I heard […]

I was hoping that this one was more myth than reality.  I was wrong.  Although I’ve come to the conclusion that America has put politics ahead of victory in our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and no longer support the wars at all for this reason, I am certainly not losing sleep over the assholes […]

This morning the “Hawks Brigade” rebel group in Syria has executed an attack against a Syrian government checkpoint.  The Hawks are one of the organizations in Syria conducting occasional suicide attacks.  The Vehicular Borne Improvised Explosive Device carries with it the tactics straight out of Iraq a few years ago when insurgents were buildings their […]

June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, […]

Well, Rowan Scarborough is out with an article about Delta Force in the Washington Times today.  Stick with me here and we’ll walk through it piece by piece. “As Navy SEALs bask in the limelight for daring missions, some in the Army are wondering whether the other half of the nation’s counter-terrorism covert warriors – […]

The dramatic details of how the SAS completed a “brilliant” rescue of a British aid worker and three other female hostages in Afghanistan can be revealed. Defence sources said the “surgical” operation showed the “precision, skill and courage” of British special forces after they stormed the cave where Helen Johnston, 28, was held, and killed […]

The Evolution of the 75th Ranger Regiment, Post-9/11 (Part 1) The 75th Ranger Regiment was initially established during the Post-Vietnam War years, when the Army was seriously hurting. Rangers were to serve as role models, and set the example as Airborne Infantrymen who religiously attained and surpassed established standards. Before the War on Terror began, […]