Sean Spoonts

About the author

Sean Spoonts is a former Navy Anti-submarine Warfare Operator and Search and Rescue Aircrewman in SH-2f LAMPS II Sea Sprite. Graduate of Naval Aircrewman Candidate School Pensacola, AW "A" School NATTC Millington, HS-1 SAR School NAS Jacksonville, FASOTRAGRUDET SERE NAS Brunswick. Duty with HSL-30, NAS Norfolk and HSL-36, NAF Mayport.

Task Force Yankee: ‘We Are Not A Mercenary Group’

A US volunteer group that sends medical supplies and screens Americans wishing to serve in Ukraine in some capacity has been recently named in the press as placing “mercenaries” in combat jobs in the Ukraine armed forces. They reached out to SOFREP wanting to correct the record.

COLD FEAR: A Thriller By Brandon Webb & John David Mann

COLD FEAR, a Thriller by New York Times Bestselling Authors Brandon Webb & John David Mann Finn’s search for his memory of one fateful night leads him to Iceland—only to be followed by an unhinged assassin intent on stopping him—in the riveting follow-up to Steel Fear, from the New York Times bestselling writing team Webb […]

Nyet Again! Another Russian Navy Ship Hit by Ukrainian Cruise Missile.

Ukraine is claiming that a Russian Navy frigate has been struck by a Neptune cruiser missile of the type that hit the cruiser Moskva last month off the Crimean coast. Unlike the aged Moskva, the Admiral Makarov is the latest design of Russian warship and has only been in service for a few years.

Deep Six: Kremlin Confirms Captain of the Moskva Killed, 450 Crewmembers May Be Dead

Russia has announced that the captain of the cruiser Moskva was killed. There is a conspicuous absence of any reassuring information from the Kremlin to the Russian public that the crew was saved. It is likely that as many as 450 Russian sailors were lost with the ship along with as yet unknown members of the staff of the Black Sea Fleet that may have been aboard as well.

Ukraine SITREP for April 13th

Ukraine is claiming they hit the Russian flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with two cruise missiles, US furnished Mi-17 helicopters going and then not going to Ukraine, A report from an American serving in Ukraine and Russian losses in perspective.