Jack Murphy

Jack Murphy

About the author

Jack served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, Direct Action, and Gray Matter Splatter. His memoir, "Murphy's Law" is due for a 2019 release and can be pre-ordered now.

War Story by Jim Morris

We were all firing. Tracers from the thirty caliber weapons were ricocheting so high I thought the Cong were sending up flares. I fired up one magazine and then another. I kept firing. We all did. I wanted nothing to live out there. I felt nothing, neither elation nor horror, just the cold astringent calm. […]

MEYER: Special Ops paying a heavy toll

By John Stryker Meyer With such a large Marine Corps presence in North County, both at Camp Pendleton and Miramar Air Station, there’s almost daily media coverage of the horrific price paid by Marines and Navy corpsmen fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, including those killed in action and wounded in action since Sept. 11, 2001. […]

Special Operations Forces Conduct Hostage Rescue Training in Miami, FL

Night Raids On May 8th, Special Operations Soldiers fast roped from Black Hawk helicopters onto the balconies of the abandoned Grand Bay Hotel in Miami, Florida.  The training mission simulation a hostage rescue operation as CBS reports: According to police sources, this is what came down in the mock anti-terror operation: Helicopters dropped Special Operations […]

Seaspray, the Black Ops Shadow of TF 160th

After the tragedy that unfolded at Desert One, the attempted Delta Force rescue of American hostages held in Iran in 1980, the Pentagon was forced back to the drawing board.  While it is easy to take for granted the Special Operations infrastructure that we have today, thirty years ago the military was still struggling in […]

Special Forces “Red Dawn” Training Film

Man, this one really drives home how serious the Cold War was back in the 1950’s! -Jack A US Army Special Forces training film dealing with a fictional scenario where the USA becomes Balkanized into three smaller countries. The film concentrates on guerrilla warfare in a rural county in West Virginia. It has a feel […]

Sunday Humor: Air Force Starts Using Highly Effective ‘Glitter Bomb’ Against Taliban

Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan –The Air Force has released information regarding a new weapon in their arsenal: The MX784 Irritant Dispersant, or “Glitter Bomb” as it is known in the service, has arrived on the scene in Afghanistan to the applause of many troops. Colonel Stanley Roberts, a representative for the Air Force, explained what […]

USSOCOM Marks 25th Anniversary

April 25, 1980, was a defining moment for Special Operations as the tragic news of the failed Desert One mission became known that day. President Jimmy Carter announced a secret rescue mission for the Iranian hostages had failed; eight American servicemen were dead and several others were seriously injured. Desert One The tragedy at Desert […]

Area 18: Secret Training Site for American Sponsored Terrorist Group, MEK

  LAS VEGAS — The contractors who run the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site, have been scrambling to find new missions to keep the facility alive. And with its wide open spaces and secure borders, it’s the perfect place for covert training. But how would taxpayers feel about using public dollars to […]

Jack Murphy’s Presentation on Directed Energy Weapons

I wanted to share the presentation I gave yesterday to my Weapons of Mass Destruction class at Columbia University with our readers.  Probably the biggest game changer with Directed Energy Weapons is the strategic aspect with ballistic missile defense or as an orbital weapons system, however there are also applications for SOF and Conventional Military […]