Sean Spoonts

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SHOT Show is the largest convention of its kind in the world. 2,400 exhibitors and 43,000 attendees representing the sports shooting, hunting, and outdoors industries. SOFREP will be covering the newest products and innovations coming in 2022.

The Department of Justice has indicted Oath Keepers leader Elmer Rhodes with seditious conspiracy along with 15 other members of his organization. These are the first charges of their kind among nearly 800 arrests related to the riot in the capitol on January 6th, 2021.

The Marine Corps has granted the first two religious accommodations for Marines not wanting to take the Covid-19 vaccination. These are the only two waivers granted by any branch of the service and represent the first grants of religious accommodation for any reason by the Marine Corps in at least ten years.

The U.S. will be sending $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, but will it be able to get this aid past the Taliban which would see these resources as useful in consolidating its own hold over the country?

So I got into a brief exchange on Twitter the other day About John Wayne being a draft dodger in WWII. These claims go back for decades, leveled by biographers, some historians, and some who hate John Wayne for the image he enjoys as the expression of American manhood: Stoic, fair-minded, moral, and forthright. In […]

Russia has sent some 2,500 troops into Kazakhstan during a civil revolt. We don’t think it has anything to do with Putin wanting to take over the country. We think it’s all about the International Space Station.

The 9D5 Helo Dunker was a staple of training helicopter aircrew safety training for decades. It enjoyed a dread reputation though. Here is a first-]hand account of what that training was like for a Helicopter Rescue Swimmer while attending Aircrewman Candidate School in Pensacola.

Lithuania is pushing back against Communist China’s Economic Colonialism and Beijing is not happy about it at all. It is trying to bully the tiny European country into line with economic sanctions.

Vice President Kamala Harris invokes the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the September 11th Attacks to elevate the “Insurrection” at the Capitol on January 6th to a level it does not deserve by any fair comparison.

Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the first commanding officer of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. 

A federal judge in Texas has just stopped the COVID vaccine mandate in its tracks when it comes to punishing service members for requesting religious waivers against taking the vaccination. The judge charges in the injunction that the Navy system used to process religious waivers is a farce with rejection already predetermined.