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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 6: Teaching Enlisted SEALs to Fly

In a bold and controversial move, Marcinko transformed his operators into skilled pilots, acquiring civilian planes for rapid response to hijacking crises, embodying the essence of a self-sufficient, covert unit.

Pictured second from the right, Aaron Vanderbeck, a former Marine Raider and Scout Sniper.

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 4: Lessons From Operation Eagle Claw

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 3: Tet, 1968

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 2: ‘Sleep, Eat and Live it Up’

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 6: Teaching Enlisted SEALs to Fly

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 6: Teaching Enlisted SEALs to Fly

A Marine Raider Comes to Grip With The Hypocrisy of MARSOC leadership

Israel Bolsters Defense with Iron Dome Interceptors Expansion

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SOFREP Daily: Israeli Forces Raid West Bank’s Jenin, Russian Forces Push into Chasiv Yar, Pentagon Sends 1,500 Troops to US-Mexico Border

SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 5: Pick of the Litter

Counter-Drone Lessons From Ukraine War

WATCH: “Big Mountain Heroes” Award-Winning Documentary on YouTube

Israel Considers Sending Captured Russian Weapons to Ukraine

SOFREP Daily: EU Funds Lebanese Military to Support Israel-Hezbollah Truce, Trump Revokes Transgender Military Protections

Trump Vows to Release Classified Files on JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassinations

SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 4: Lessons From Operation Eagle Claw

Even Delta Force Legends Fail: Pat McNamara’s Near-Death Parachute Tangle

SOFREP Daily: Trump Targets Border Crisis with Executive Orders, Russia Downs 55 Ukrainian Drones Overnight, Colombian President Vows Offensive Against ELN Rebels

SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 3: Tet, 1968

SOF Pic of the Day: Remembering Delta Force’s Gaetano ‘Guy’ Cutino

Lockheed Martin Secures $8.7M Contract to Upgrade Singapore’s F-16 Fleet

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SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 2: ‘Sleep, Eat and Live it Up’

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