Video of the Week: Watch as Marines prepare to reinforce besieged US embassy in Baghdad

Video of the Week: Watch as Marines prepare to reinforce besieged US embassy in Baghdad

U.S. Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAFTF-CR-CC) 19.2, prepare to deploy from Kuwait in support of a crisis response mission on December 31, 2019. Approximately 100 Marines were deployed to protect the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq after protesters stormed the embassy gates trying to get inside of […]

The Pic of the Day: MARSOC hopefuls playing in the dark

The Pic of the Day: MARSOC hopefuls playing in the dark

Marine Special Operation Command (MARSOC) students conduct a helicopter raid at Outlying Field Atlantic, North Carolina, Oct. 31, 2019. MARSOC’s mission is to recruit, train, sustain, and deploy scalable, expeditionary forces worldwide to accomplish special operations missions assigned by U.S. Special Operations Command.

The Pic of the Day: Special Forces operators getting ready

The Pic of the Day: Special Forces operators getting ready

A U.S. Army Special Operation Soldier with 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) fires an M4A1 rifle at pop up targets at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Calif., Oct. 18, 2019. The Green Berets used the MCAGCC training areas to refine detachment tactics and prepare for combat operations.

The Pic of the Day: Polish SOF and SF operators on the door

The Pic of the Day: Polish SOF and SF operators on the door

U.S. Special Forces assigned to the U.S. Army 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), prepare for a static line jump out of the 352nd Special Operation Wing’s MC-130J Commando II, This event was part of a combined airborne operation with the Polish Forces, Dec. 3, 2019, near Krakow, Poland. Polish and U.S. SOF exercised together with […]

The Pic of the Day: Jumping into 2020 like pros

The Pic of the Day: Jumping into 2020 like pros

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, participate in a High Altitude Low Open (HALO) parachute jump into the water from a C-130J Hercules assigned to the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron near Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, May 11, 2019

The Pic of the Day: TACP operators pushing them out

The Pic of the Day: TACP operators pushing them out

Tactical Air Control Party Airmen check their gear in Fort Bliss, Texas, Nov. 18, 2019. The new TACP Airmen performed tasks such as demonstrating small unit tactics skills, radio programming, and land navigation of a foreign terrain.

The Pic of the Day: Special Warfare operators remember their brother

The Pic of the Day: Special Warfare operators remember their brother

A piper plays taps during the military funeral honors of U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff, a Special Tactics combat controller, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Richardson, Texas, Dec. 21, 2019. Condiff, assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, had an unplanned parachute departure from a C-130 […]

The Pic of the Day: Look at that Pararescueman and his beard

The Pic of the Day: Look at that Pararescueman and his beard

A U.S. Air Force pararescueman assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), conducts close quarter battle drills in East Africa, May 10, 2019. Pararescue is the only career field in the entire Department of Defence (DoD) dedicated to personnel recovery.  

The Pic of the Day: Navy SEAL medics working their magic

The Pic of the Day: Navy SEAL medics working their magic

U.S. Naval Special Operations Forces assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group TWO treat a simulated casualty Aug. 12, 2019, aboard a vessel in the Mediterranean Sea during exercise Noble Rose. Navy SOF engage in a continuous training cycle to improve and further specialize skills needed to conduct missions from the sea, air, and land. Noble […]

The Pic of the Day: Pipehitters on their way to rescue Americans POWs

The Pic of the Day: Pipehitters on their way to rescue Americans POWs

Special Forces soldiers and members of the Son Tay prison rescue force at the back of a C-130. Son Tay prison was located close to Hanoi and believed to contain a significant amount of American Prisoners of War (POWs). The military launched a raid to rescue them on November 21, 1970. The assault force engaged […]

The Pic of the Day: Christmas the SOF way

The Pic of the Day: Christmas the SOF way

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan watch the Afghanistan countryside from the tail of an aircraft after delivering bundles containing care packages, Christmas stockings and mail to soldiers stationed at a remote base in eastern Afghanistan.