‘Your account has been deleted’: Instagram targets NEWSREP and other veteran groups

‘Your account has been deleted’: Instagram targets NEWSREP and other veteran groups

On Tuesday evening, Instagram decided to delete NEWSREP’s account without offering any concrete reasons. The only thing the NEWSREP managing team received from Instagram was a short email that hardly clarified the reasons behind what appears to be a permanent ban. “Your account has been deleted for not following our terms,” said the email. “You […]

Getting Back to the A-B-Cs of Land Navigation – Resection

Getting Back to the A-B-Cs of Land Navigation – Resection

For the benefit of some of the aspiring members of the Special Operations community, we’ve been going back to the basics of passing Land Navigation. This was after a recent article that stated the Army has noticed a lack of expertise at junior NCOs with a map and compass. Waiting until one gets to Selection […]

Letter from the editor: The brutal truth about running a news site

Letter from the editor: The brutal truth about running a news site

Change isn’t always easy, or desired. But it’s often necessary. Over the years, NEWSREP had many contributors come and go. A lot of our readers and subscribers often expressed confusion about why a certain writer is no longer with the site. To answer that type of question isn’t easy. It involves a lot of variables […]

Will the Surfaced Video Evidence Clear Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher?

Will the Surfaced Video Evidence Clear Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher?

Opinion: In a stunning turn of events, the defense in the upcoming court-martial case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is preparing to release helmet cam footage they say will exonerate their client. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) who has been a very vocal supporter of Gallagher is planning to show members of Congress a video later […]

NEWSREP State of the Union

NEWSREP State of the Union

Recently, we’ve experienced some staff changes at NEWSREP that resulted in a bit of consternation among readers, which is understandable.  Unfortunately, sometimes decisions have to be made for business purposes. However, the site has nominally been run with a staff of five-to-seven writers, and this will continue to be the case this month, featuring articles […]

Release of Film Combat Obscura Draws Marine Corps’ Ire

Release of Film Combat Obscura Draws Marine Corps’ Ire

Over at NEWSREP in a report written by Stavros Atlamazoglou, he’s saying the Marine Corps is not happy with the way that the Marines were depicted in the film Combat Obscura by former Marine and current Columbia University film student Jacob Lagoze. In the film, where Lagoze and several other combat cameramen were attached to […]

Get Out And Ruck For a Cause While Prepping for Selection

Get Out And Ruck For a Cause While Prepping for Selection

We have frequently in the past advocated for many of the fine organizations that support our Veteran community here at SpecialOperations.com, especially those who care for our Special Operations Forces and/or are conducting a fundraiser thru rucking. During the past weekend, the 30th annual Bataan Memorial Death March drew its largest field of ruckers and […]

Mismanagement Plagues Air Force F-22 Raptor Program

Mismanagement Plagues Air Force F-22 Raptor Program

Another excellent article from Alex Hollings over on our parent site NEWSREP was posted the other day on the trials and tribulations of the most lethal superiority fighter in the world, the F-22 Raptor. Hollings wrote that the biggest issues with the fighter have to do from within the U.S., not its enemies. U.S. congressmen, […]

Air Force Special Operators To Ruck 830 Miles to Honor Comrades

Air Force Special Operators To Ruck 830 Miles to Honor Comrades

In an endurance event that will surely garner some attention, 20 Air Force Special Operators will conduct a rucksack march from Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas all the way to Hurlburt Field, Florida. They’ll cover a distance of an astounding 830 miles. And they’re conducting this to honor their brothers who paid […]

Two Ex-SEALs Among Eight Contractors Arrested in Haitian Flap

Two Ex-SEALs Among Eight Contractors Arrested in Haitian Flap

In a bizarre case, three Americans and five foreign nationals were arrested in Haiti as they sat in an unmarked and untagged SUV about a block from Haiti’s Central Bank. The arrested included two ex-Navy SEALs and a former Marine as well as five other foreign nationals. As they were approached by police officers, the […]

OSS Operative Roderick Stephen Hall, Executed by the Nazis Feb. 20, 1945

OSS Operative Roderick Stephen Hall, Executed by the Nazis Feb. 20, 1945

Roderick Stephen Hall was an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent during World War II and conducted one of the most daring behind-the-lines operations of the war. His mission, which he himself proposed, dropped him and other OSS operatives deep inside Italy where they conducted sabotage missions against the German military in the Brenner Pass […]

US Aid to Venezuela Thru Colombia Now is the Crux of the Crisis

US Aid to Venezuela Thru Colombia Now is the Crux of the Crisis

Opinion: The United States is pushing the envelope against the authoritarian regime of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. No one is arguing, except Maduro that the tons of medical supplies are urgently needed. The people of Venezuela are in dire need of food, medicine and an end to the hyper-inflation devastating the once prosperous nation’s economy. […]