In the waters off the coast of Japan at 0130hrs on June 17th (local time) the Guided Missile Destroyer USS Fitzgerald DDG-62 was struck with a glancing blow on her starboard side… Read More
Watch standing can be a tedious duty on a Naval vessel. There are hundreds of watches on a Navy ship, most of them of a professional or technical nature. In port or underway, the… Read More
On March 8, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER departed from Kuala Lumpur with 227 passengers and 12 crew members. It departed at 12:41am (1441 GMT), and was due in Beijing at… Read More
In the beginning, there was darkness about Special Operations Forces and SOFREP.com was void and without form. I joined in the pre-launch days, a couple of months before that when… Read More
Recent events in Egypt are a good study in the art of the politics of the real. As usual, the media talking heads just run with the latest video out of Egypt without context. They… Read More
The “Pucker Factor” (PF) is a scale that seeks to measure fear by the force of contraction exerted on the sphincter muscles surrounding the anus during a given… Read More
