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ARCTIC CIRCLE, Norway — U.S. Navy SEALs and German Kommando SpezialkrrÅfte (KSK) freefall parachute onto a frozen lake in northern Norway during Exercise Cold Response 2010 (CR10). CR10 is a Norwegian sponsored, scheduled and conducted multinational invitational exercise, with more than 9,000 military personnel from 14 countries, focused on cold weather maritime/amphibious operations, interoperability of […]

How many of us remember the cheesy PG-13 and R-rated gun advertisements from the ’80’s and ’90’s that mostly featured scantily-clad middle-aged women, poor trigger discipline and emotionless faces?  Even though the shots were captured by what must have been the most disposable cameras available, sex sold more than a few cheap guns. Searching back […]

Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen from Special Boat Team 12, stationed at Naval Base Coronado, Calif., with the help of aviators from 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., conducted a Maritime External Air Transportation System (MEATS) training evolution in Moses Lake, Wash., May 21. MEATS is a way to […]

When a member of the Trump administration is on the receiving end of a personal attack from a prominent member of Congress or the media, there is little chance they will turn a blind eye to it.  For White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, his response to Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s absurd accusations relating […]

Soldiers perform a seaborne infiltration as part of training at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School in Key West, Fla. The four-week Combat Diver Qualification Course, run by the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, trains qualified combat divers in a variety of waterborne operations. Image courtesy of the Department of […]

16 years ago, I had returned from an early-morning 5 a.m. walk in San Diego County. I had injured my knee in a football game and doc told me to walk only. I was sitting in my garage watching the morning news, doing some basic PT, when the first news flashed on-screen. Like everyone else, I sat […]

So, this article is slightly outside of the SOFREP wheelhouse, but nevertheless, here it is.  Your intrepid author is getting a jump on the competition with this one, as we can fully expect in two years’ time to see various lists come out, laying out the “best albums of the 2010’s” or the “best of […]

The tragic events of September 11th, 2001 brought about the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans, who had their lives cut short by the cowardly acts of a small group of terrorists.  It’s difficult to try to look back on such a series of events without being reminded of that sense of loss, of pain, […]

I was in my senior year of high school on September 11th 2001.  It was another morning in computer class.  Mr. Greer came in and said that he didn’t want to upset anybody but that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.  We figured it was some kind of large scale accident. […]

In a September 8, 2017 op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune, retired Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Ed Hiner wrote about the American military becoming a “family business” — and he is right, sadly. Hiner’s point, citing data available on who serves in our all-volunteer military, is that fewer and fewer American families are shouldering the […]

BELGRADE, Serbia-A U.S. Navy SEAL assigned to Naval Special Warfare Unit 2 observes the target as a member of the Serbian Special Anti-terrorist Unit shoots in the prone position on the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon during a Special Operations Command Europe Joint Combined Exchange Training Nov. 28. Photo by Staff Sgt. Larraine Whetstone/24th Press Camp […]

This author came to a rather shocking realization the other day while talking to his kids about September 11th, 2001.  Sadly, my offspring and step-kids did not really know much about that day.  Sure, they knew something bad had happened, and that lots of people died.  They really did not know the details, though, like […]