Category: Army

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]

Congress had to step in to assure Honorable discharges for service members who refused to get the vaccine citing religious and medical concerns. The DoD was preparing to court martial those who refused which amounted to them being convicted of a felony in a civilian court.

The pocket-sized Black Hornet drone provides a scouting element to the individual infantryman in the field.

The U.S. military intercepted and shot down a small drone that was believed to be threatening a U.S. base in southern Syria Tuesday, just weeks after the same base was attacked by drones and rocket fire. It is believed to have been launched by Iranian proxy militias in the region.  Capt. Bill Urban, the spokesman […]

Syrian state media claims that Syrian Democratic Forces led by U.S. troops killed civilians and took hostages during a large airborne operation in al-Busayrah, Syria that was aimed at killing or capturing a known ISIS member.

With just forty-four men dressed as American soldiers, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny’s commando unit wreaked havoc and confusion behind U.S. lines in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16th, 1944

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.

The award for SFC Alwyn Cashe has been considered the one award that has been the longest in coming. On October 17, 2005, Cashe, was on a combat patrol in Samarra, Iraq. As an Alpha Company platoon sergeant from Forward Operating Base (FOB) McKenzie, adjacent to Diyala, SFC Cashe was in the lead Bradley Fighting Vehicle when it struck a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED). 

General Bipin Rawat the Chief of Staff of the Indian military has been killed with at least eleven others in a fiery helicopter crash in northern India. General Rawat, was traveling with his wife and staff to the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to deliver a lecture. He was sixty-three years old and came from a family of distinguished military service.

Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division undergo SURT, or Small Unit Ranger Tactics, a program designed to prepare them to be Army Rangers.

Can an Airman live next to an Army base and survive? Time to find out.