The Pic of the Day: Why pull ups are so important to Navy SEALs

The Pic of the Day: Why pull ups are so important to Navy SEALs

U.S. Navy SEALs train with Special Boat Team 12 on the proper techniques of how to board gas and oil platforms during the SEALs gas and oil platform training cycle. SEALs conduct these evolutions to hone their various maritime operations skills. Scaling a moving ladder in rough seas, and most probably at night if we’re […]

The Pic of the Day: Replenishment at sea can be beautiful

The Pic of the Day: Replenishment at sea can be beautiful

The guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG 95), front, and the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), back, conduct replenishment-at-sea with the fleet-replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) while conducting operations with the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Ike is conducting operations in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the […]

The Pic of the Day: Special Forces operators train in Syria

The Pic of the Day: Special Forces operators train in Syria

Green Berets prepare to breach an entryway during a readiness exercise near At-Tanf Garrison, Syria, April 25, 2020. Coalition and partner forces regularly train on tactics and various weapon systems in an enduring effort to defeat of Daesh in southern Syria. Special Forces teams have deployed to Iraq and Syria since 2015 for the fight […]

The Pic of the Day: Trying not to lose them gains

The Pic of the Day: Trying not to lose them gains

U.S. Marines conduct individual physical training (PT) at the High-Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) centers at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan April 23, 2020. The HITT centers re-opened on Okinawa after a thorough deep cleaning and new safety guidelines in place to include: social distancing, wiping down of equipment before and after use, no spotting each others […]

SOFREP’s April Cartoon: The US Navy fights COVID-19

SOFREP’s April Cartoon: The US Navy fights COVID-19

Our U.S. Navy is at war with the novel Coronavirus. Theodore Roosevelt, the aircraft carrier of former Captain Brett Crozier, is currently inflicted with Coronavirus to the tune of 678 sailors of its 4,069-man crew testing positive for the virus. The Navy is recommending that the ship’s recently dismissed Skipper Brett Crozier be reinstated once […]

What goes on during Ranger Assessment and Selection

What goes on during Ranger Assessment and Selection

The Ranger Assessment and Selection Program 1, (RASP 1), is an intense, eight-week course designed to test a Soldier’s physical and mental strength under extreme conditions. Candidates must earn the right to don the tan beret and become a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. RASP 2 is designed for officers and senior enlisted Soldiers […]

The Pic of the Day: ANZACs go over the top in Gallipoli

The Pic of the Day: ANZACs go over the top in Gallipoli

Australian/New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops go over the top and charge at a Turkish position during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. As the bloody stalemate of the Western Front was devastating both the Allied and German armies, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill proposed the opening of a second front in the Balkans […]

The Pic of the Day: Are you getting anything, bruh?

The Pic of the Day: Are you getting anything, bruh?

U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operators from the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron establish communications during an airfield survey as part of a culmination exercise Mar. 10, 2020, at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The CULEX challenged the operators to perform airfield survey and control procedures in a potentially austere environment in order to simulate humanitarian […]

The Pic of the Day: Remembering Pat Tillman, Ranger and NFL player

The Pic of the Day: Remembering Pat Tillman, Ranger and NFL player

Pat Tillman left a promising carrier in the NFL to join the elite 75th Ranger Regiment and fight those who had attacked America on 9/11. As a member of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, he participated in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and also deployed to Afghanistan in 2004. It was during that […]

Leaked Kremlin papers reveal Vladimir Putin is incapable of death

Leaked Kremlin papers reveal Vladimir Putin is incapable of death

Kiev. A trove of Kremlin documents proving Russian president Vladimir Putin’s immortality leaks. It brings a sigh of relief to the global movement fearing the Coronavirus’s impact on Russia’s ability to disrupt Ukraine’s sovereignty for all eternity. Russian Interior Ministry spokesman Vladimirovich Putinov led a rare public town hall gathering in the Donetsk People’s Republic […]

The Pic of the Day: The Special Operations team that saved the Air Force’s top general

The Pic of the Day: The Special Operations team that saved the Air Force’s top general

On May 2, 1999, Lieutenant Colonel David Goldfein’s F-16 fighter was shot down by a Serbian surface-to-air missile. A combat search-and-rescue team comprised of Pararescuemen and Combat Controllers scrambled to his rescue. After a hair-raising operation, the Serbs were trying to capture Goldfein who was escaping and evading, the Air Commandos managed to locate and […]