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At the Crate Club, we know its best to avoid a bad situation, and that’s why we’re going to help you stay out of the Black Friday rush. Sign up for Crate Club this weekend and receive 20% off an annual subscription! Crate Club has you covered with the best everyday carry gear available for […]

Crate Club Group hiring a Director of Marketing – Apply now

Director of Marketing Location: Preference for New York, NY, potential for remote Crate Club Group is a content-driven eCommerce company that builds unique men’s lifestyle products and experiences. Backed by several media platforms that reach over 50M monthly unique visitors, we also run Crate Club, the leading subscription gear club in America. Are you looking […]

Social Media – Where the First Amendment Takes a Back Seat

Opinion: Sorry to get back on the soapbox again but sometimes events occur that are out of our control. Recently there have been lots of groups and individuals who have been getting their accounts deleted on social media. Recently our parent site, NEWSREP had their Instagram account deleted. While at times some social media platforms […]

‘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

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

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?

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

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

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

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 […]