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I am always amazed when I hear about wounded warriors who have turned into rock star adaptive athletes. Ivan Castro is one of those rock stars. Marathons and extreme races are challenging enough, now imagine running it blind; having to use your other senses to not only pace yourself but avoid the unseen hazards around you. […]
Austin Tice, a former Marine Corps officer turned freelance journalist has now been missing in Syria since August of 2012. Abducted from the neighborhood of Darayya in Damascus, a hotspot in the Syrian uprising, little has been heard about Tice aside from a YouTube video released in September, 2012. The video shows a restrained Tice surrounded by […]
As I sometimes do, I am opening up this particular SOFREP space today, on this Veteran’s Day 2016, to a guest contributor. It is an honor to be able to see what this day means to a 12-year old girl, a post-Millenial. I think you will all agree, she does us proud. Veteran’s Day By Annalise […]
Mark your calendars, the Remembrance Rumble is tomorrow! Watch as former British SAS and former US Special Operations Forces take each other on in the boxing ring for charity. Check out the lineup HERE. The boxing match is scheduled to be streamed live on Facebook at 2:00pm EST on Nov. 11. Please join us on […]
I’m a Catholic man by religion, or at least I do fancy myself one. During legion routine boring days on the job contemplating my domestic plight, I, like most others, indulge myself from time to time in a micro dream of my fantasy job. Mine would be to assume the position of his excellency, the Pontiff. […]
Integrity can be defined as ‘doing the right thing when no one is watching.’ I am put in mind of the time when one simple act popped on my moral lightbulb: late in the eve as I left my office, I was clearly the last one out as I traversed the hall, reading last few […]
Straight off of the SOFREP entertainment beat today, in news that is sure to enrage all of you out there who are sick and tired of seeing and hearing about U.S. Navy SEALs all throughout the media — excluding on this website, of course — it was reported on the cinema-focused website deadline.com recently that […]
Below is supposedly a new audio recording of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and it is titled, “This is what God and his Messenger have promised us.” The audio of al Baghdadi is unconfirmed as there have been multiple rumors of him being both severely injured and killed since the war against ISIS started. New images of the reclusive leader have not been […]
I’m an active duty service member in the United States Air Force. On base, I’m very restricted in what I can carry which I’ll be delving into in another article. When I’m not on base, my every day carry (EDC) focuses around the set of skills that I have learned as a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, […]
Jack Murphy, SOFREP’s Editor-in-Chief, is currently in Syria participating in a conference held by the British Syrian society. Yesterday, Jack was given the rare opportunity to interview President Bashar al-Assad. After being escorted into the atrium of the presidential palace we were told that we could walk upstairs to meet the president. I walked up the white […]
Iraqi Security Forces are close to the Mosul city limits after clearing the surrounding smaller cities. It is expected it will take several months to completely rid Mosul of ISIS. The Iraqi prime minister urged Islamic State fighters to surrender as Iraqi Security Forces reached within one kilometer of Mosul. Haider al-Abadi appeared on state TV wearing combat fatigues […]
Check out this book excerpt from ‘Fighting Blind- A Green Beret’s Story of Extraordinary Courage’ by Ivan Castro and Jim DeFelice. ‘Fighting Blind’ is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Simple Man I was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and lived the first few years of my life in the New York City area, but if you […]
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Our roots in shooting sports started off back in 1996 with our founder and CEO, Josh Ungier. His love of airguns took hold of our company from day one and we became the first e-commerce retailer dedicated to airguns, optics, ammo, and accessories. Over the next 25 years, customers turned to us for our unmatched product selection, great advice, education, and continued support of the sport and airgun industry.
