Luke Ryan

About the author

Luke Ryan is a SOFREP journalist in Tampa, FL. He is a former Team Leader from 3rd Ranger Battalion, having served four deployments to Afghanistan. He grew up overseas, the son of foreign aid workers, and lived in Pakistan for nine years and Thailand for five. He has a degree in English Literature and loves to write on his own as well, working on several personal projects.

From Ranger School to actual school: What am I here for again? (Part 3)

Read Part One and Part Two.  Every single time.  People on their phones, having hushed (or loud) conversations, browsing every social media site I’ve heard of and then a couple more, all in front of a tired professor who spent years and years in school just to be ignored.  One time I even saw a […]

From Ranger School to actual school: Vocal veterans (Part 2)

Film and Culture: a class where you go to watch movies and listen to lectures on the craft of creating a film.  It was an interesting class, but not a hard one.  Every class we would sit in the theater-like auditorium and spend the first two hours watching an entire movie.  We had a variety […]

From Ranger School to actual school: The god of education (Part 1)

I sat near the front row of our classroom, close enough to engage in discussion, yet far enough to bow out if necessary.  I had plain jeans, a nondescript t-shirt and some forgettable, but nice-looking shoes.  It was an English class; most students were women, dressed in an assortment of pajamas, sorority and university shirts, and […]

Former Army Ranger heads deep into Karen Country in Burma (Part 1)

I watched rather helplessly as the blood and puss dripped from the boy’s neck, swirling together into a perfect mixture of gruesome bodily fluids in the pan below.  The doctor watched carefully, overseeing the medic gently push on what was left of the cyst, bulging out just above the child’s shoulder.  At one point, the […]