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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 […]

“Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is celebrating one year as a bestselling book on business and life. “Leif and Jocko are the real deal. I’m honored to have served with them. They led SEALs in the fight through the hell that was the Battle of Ramadi. […]

The results of the second SOFREP poll for this presidential election are in, and our military audience will be voting for Donald Trump. Unlike our first poll between only Hillary and Trump, we added all of the third party candidates to this poll. Out of 1968 military veterans and those currently serving, 1537 indicated they would […]

Recent coverage around the OSS award has become widespread. The Washington Post repoted that the “Bill that would honor World War II’s secret commandos can’t seem to pass in Congress.” A great many are outraged, unsure, and making assumptions as to why. However, the reasons are more pragmatic and less vindictive. People aren’t entirely sure […]

Government contracting has somehow gotten a strange cloak of mystique. Since humans have enacted systems of control, people have contracted. The King held court and those in the court proposed solutions and basically consulted to the rulers of their day in medieval times. Contracting – and outside solutions – is not a wildly new and […]