Job Posting: Freelance writer with fluency in Russian

Job Posting: Freelance writer with fluency in Russian

SOFREP is a news and information website run by former Special Operations soldiers and members of the intelligence community.  We are currently looking at 2017 as being a year in which there is a increased focus on Russia from a foreign policy standpoint.  To that end, SOFREP is interested in recruiting a freelance writer and […]

SOF SELECTION PT PREPARATION 1/4/16

SOF SELECTION PT PREPARATION 1/4/16

Training:  1) 5-mile run (OK if this is in AM or at different time of day then Round 2-5) 2) 4 rounds: Incline Bench Press x 4 reps “Arnold” Curl, each arm x 5 3) Find 1RM – if you already know it, skip it. 4) Back Squat x20 @ %65 1RM 5) Foam Roll […]

Job Posting: SpecialOperations.com Editor (Part-Time)

Job Posting: SpecialOperations.com Editor (Part-Time)

Position: Editor of SpecialOperations.com Responsible for writing, editing, and publishing articles on the site daily. Set your own schedule and work from home. Part-time position. Reports directly to the Hurricane Group Managing Editor. Requirements: Military experience required, US Army SOF is preferred Experience with WordPress is preferred Experience reporting and writing for an online or print […]

Big Phil’s War: Fighting ISIS (Part One)

Big Phil’s War: Fighting ISIS (Part One)

A lot of people have been asking me about the film I made for Sky Atlantic – Big Phil’s War: Fighting ISIS – how it came about and whether there will be another one? To answer the last question first – yes, but getting these things together is hard, so you’ll have to wait a […]

SOF SELECTION PT PREPARATION 1/3/17

SOF SELECTION PT PREPARATION 1/3/17

WARNO – this week we’re going to start ratchet up the miles and implement heavy ruck (60lbs.) movements for a short distance (~ 5 miles) 1x week. Yesterday’s PT – Holiday, I hope you recouped from new years! Happy New Year, by the way. New year, new you – and this could be your best […]

Boot review: The ASOLO 95 GTX is popular with Special Operations Forces

Boot review: The ASOLO 95 GTX is popular with Special Operations Forces

Asolo boots are used in spades by Special Operations. Merrill’s are popular but are not the only great boot to wear in the mountains. My entire time on a team and in Special Forces I wore a single boot for moving in tough terrain, an Asolo hiking boot. They’re made tough – and I found […]

News Roundup Special: The 2016 News Roundup year in review

News Roundup Special: The 2016 News Roundup year in review

What a year, folks. Another 12 months of bringing you the best in military news, pop culture, crime, politics, and nudity, now in the books. Here is a month-by-month breakdown of some of the stories we covered in an epic 2016. Thank you to each and every one of you out there for reading and […]

A Marine fighter’s perspective on Ronda Rousey’s UFC 207 defeat

A Marine fighter’s perspective on Ronda Rousey’s UFC 207 defeat

I remember the first time the realization that I might lose crept across my oxygen-deprived mind. It was my very first fight. My wife was there. All the Marines from my shop were there. My coach—also my battalion sergeant major—was calling to me, but as my opponent sunk his choke in a bit deeper, his […]

2016 year in review: To make an end is to make a beginning

2016 year in review: To make an end is to make a beginning

T.S. Eliot wrote the words found in the title of this article in his poem “Little Gidding,” about time, perspective, and human salvation. It seems only fitting to herald the end of 2016 not as a year passed in celebration, but as the beginning of a new year, lest some of us shoot ourselves in the face […]