Category: Army

With some new Selection courses starting in the cooler/colder weather, it is a good time to revisit some of the basics that the candidates will need to pass. The Big Three in regard to questions we get here which pertains to Selection concern themselves with physical training, rucking and Land Navigation. And we do get […]

Two advocacy groups, Protect Our Defenders and the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center are suing the U.S. military for records pertaining to sexual assault and the military justice system. The groups filed suit with the Federal Court in Connecticut against the Department of Defense as well as the Department of Homeland Security “to release records related to gender […]

The Civil War did not go well for the Union during the first two years of the war. They suffered defeat after defeat at the hands of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia and seemingly had no answer. Backstabbing and in-fighting among the Union’s Army leadership were rampant. President Lincoln went thru […]

The 118th playing of the Army-Navy game was an instant classic, on and off the field. Played in a snowstorm, one could say that the Army finally found a camouflage uniform that worked the way it was supposed to. And in a year where the Army’s West Point came under a lot of scrutiny for […]

Opinion: By now, practically everyone associated with Special Operations Forces have heard of, read, and/or discussed the recent letter from a “concerned Green Beret” that blasted the command climate at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, NC. Titled “Careerism, Cronyism, and Malfeasance in SWCS: The End of SF Capability”, the letter […]

Members of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers got a first-hand look at some of the training that Army Special Operations Forces go thru and got to experience some of it on a Tuesday visit to Ft. Bragg. The Panthers players got to try a virtual reality parachute jump trainer, fire M-4 weapons during at a battlefield […]

Many of the training pieces that deal with either the Selection course or the SFQC (Special Forces Qualification Course) we write from a perspective of one of the cadre members, which I was for a time during the early days of Selection. Passing Selection and the SFQC was/is no easy task and many of the […]

A federal court has ruled that the U.S. military must begin accepting transgender service members by January 1. On Monday, the court issued a clarification to the preliminary injunction that the court imposed on President Donald Trump’s transgender policy. Last month, a judge on the U.S. District Court ruled that the president’s order to ban new transgender recruits […]

Chinese Gen. Zhang Yang, accused of corruption with ties to two other disgraced military authorities, committed suicide at his home, according to Chinese state-run media. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s aggressive anti-corruption drive was investigating Yang of charges of “violating Party discipline.” The South China Morning Post, quoting China’s state media reports that Zhang, 66, a former head […]

US Air Force pilot Lt. James Fleming, assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron in Vietnam was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life and his aircraft above and beyond the call of duty to rescue the lives of seven Green Berets on November 26, 1968. The seven-man Green Beret unit was conducting […]

In 1944, the US knew what awaited them when facing the Japanese forces as they got closer and closer to the homeland of Japan. The prospects of a Japanese surrender were practically non-existent and the ferocity and bloodshed for tiny specks of islands as the Allies hopped from chain to island chain were much higher […]

President Donald Trump spoke to the troops overseas yesterday via teleconference from the Mar-al-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida and besides wishing them all a Happy Thanksgiving, he reiterated the gratitude and pride that the country as a whole feels for the men and women deployed far from home. Hello, everybody, and happy Thanksgiving. You’re […]