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Steve is a SOFREP Senior Editor. He has served as a Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. He writes for SOFREP and covers the NFL for PatsFans.com and his work was regularly featured in the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Grafton News newspapers.
An American aircraft crashed in the Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan on Monday. Pentagon officials have denied the Taliban reports that the aircraft was shot down. The bodies of two pilots have been recovered by U.S. forces, but additional recovery efforts are being hampered by poor weather. The aircraft was assigned to the 430th Expeditionary Electronic […]
Bobby Barrera always wanted to be in the military, and once he got in, he wanted to go to Vietnam. But he’d only been there for six weeks when his entire world and life would change forever in a huge fireball. As his armored personnel carrier was crossing a rice paddy and the Viet Cong […]
Ceremonies in both Poland and Jerusalem marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the death camp run by the Nazis that was synonymous with the Holocaust. Over a million people were murdered there between 1940 and 1945, the vast majority of them Jews. Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Russian […]
Fears of the coronavirus are affecting the travel plans of over 46 million people worldwide and Chinese officials, where the outbreak started, are worried that the disease is spreading. China’s President Xi Jinping stressed the urgency of controlling the outbreak, which is confirmed to have infected hundreds just since Friday. The number of infected people, […]
Fuerzas Comando is a military exercise consisting of a skills competition between military and police Special Operations teams from the Western Hemisphere. The event will be hosted by Colombia in 2020. Teams from about 20 countries, including the United States, will be taking part in the challenging contest, which promotes military-to-military relationships, increases training knowledge, […]
Three members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group were stopped and apprehended trying to fly into Dallas while using passports from Colombia. The three entered Colombia via Venezuela. The three al-Qaeda members who are from Syria, entered Colombia in La Guajira, in northeast Colombia. The three men were able to obtain actual passports as they had […]
Just about two weeks ago it seemed like the escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran was heading for open warfare. And contrary to what many believe, the danger hasn’t abated at all for American or European troops in the region. It began with Iranian-led militias that had rocketed and mortared over a […]
The United States government including Attorney General William Barr and President Trump have been after Apple to help with the unlocking of Pensacola shooter’s iPhones. AG Barr has asserted that the tech giant hasn’t given law enforcement “substantive assistance” in the investigation. “We have asked Apple for their help in unlocking the shooter’s phones,” Barr […]
German authorities have arrested a former translator and cultural advisor for the German military, accusing him of spying for Iranian intelligence. The 51-year old man, who has been identified only as Abdul S., was arrested along with his wife and charged with treason and with breaching official secrecy laws in 18 cases. The accused is […]
As America waited breathlessly for the much anticipated new uniforms for the United States Space Force, the Twitterati were hard at work on social media. Everyone had different uniforms all picked out. Of course, the Star Trek and Star Wars uniforms for the Empire (the Resistance looked like a bunch of rag-tag dirtbags) were the […]
A missile attack by Shi’ite Houthi rebels hit a Yemeni army base in Marib on Saturday killing 70 troops and wounding scores more. Yemeni officials confirmed the attack at the base 70 miles (115 km) east of the capital of Sanaa. The soldiers were gathered in a mosque conducting evening prayers when the missiles hit. […]
I don’t know why there is such an adversarial relationship between Special Forces and the MP community or when it started. No doubt it was from the earliest days of the O.S.S. when our earliest operators had to return to the flagpole and some guy couldn’t help but try to bust his chops over some […]
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