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About halfway through the deployment, we got word that we were to prepare for a new recce mission, one that had special significance for the Ranger regiment. We were to recon the compound harboring the suspected Taliban leader who’d planned the Pat Tillman ambush, so that it could be assaulted by a Ranger strike force. […]

I love reading about Special Operations history. It’s amazing what information can be found in published sources if you’re prepared to dig around. There’s a whole hidden history that can only be compiled by doing some deep research and really looking for sources. Thankfully, some former operators penned books that are well worth tracking down. Here […]

Editor’s note: The content and photographs in this article are courtesy of Stanton Sharpe. Run your cursor over the photos for captions. For background information on the Free Burma Rangers in Burma and Myanmar, please visit this link. New Free Burma Ranger teams are routinely field tested on various skills throughout the course of the […]

Change isn’t always easy, or desired. But it’s often necessary. Over the years, NEWSREP had many contributors come and go. A lot of our readers and subscribers often expressed confusion about why a certain writer is no longer with the site. To answer that type of question isn’t easy. It involves a lot of variables […]

I’m very excited to be able to share my memoir with readers today and it has already been interesting to see how the book is connecting with different people in different ways.  Some readers like to read about the combat missions, some are more interested to read about getting smuggled across international borders as a […]

With “Murphy’s Law” just a few weeks away from publication, I thought I might share a few stories that just didn’t make the cut for the book. When I wrote it, I really focused on what I thought were the most important or interesting aspects of my life and discarded a lot of material that […]

The U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman would be retired from active duty sometime in the next several years, bringing the total number of operational aircraft carriers in the U.S. arsenal to ten. The Truman was expected to undergo a major overhaul operation in or around 2024, which […]

Gold Star families from around the country will be brought to Hawaii on an all-expense-paid trip to Oahu, Hawaii from May 2-8. The Marine Reconnaissance Foundation (MRF) is covering transportation, accommodations, meals, and all other expenses as they pull out all the stops for an event with the sole purpose of honoring the families of […]

The internet has no shortage of mysteries for those inclined to chase them. Many fit neatly within genres with dedicated fan bases: true crime, Bigfoot, unexplained lights in the sky. But some are so inexplicable, so disturbing, that they worm their way into nearly every corner of the internet’s ever-rolling theory-machine. These mysteries seem to […]

The Japan Times has reported that children at a school in Okinawa, Japan have taken shelter in their school gymnasium 693 times over the last year. In America, school children may take emergency actions due to school shooters, fire drills, or extreme weather in some parts of the country but in Okinawa school children apparently […]

On a recent skit on Saturday Night Live, comedian Pete Davidson mocked the physical appearance of former Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Commander Dan Crenshaw, saying he looked like a hit man in a porno movie. Dan himself was all class about it. In a self-shot video that appeared on TMZ, he said he was against demands for […]

It can sometimes be easy to lose perspective when talking about historical events. Once timelines stretch beyond the horizon of our own recollection, they tend to get fuzzy. Most people would be surprised to know, for instance, that Cleopatra’s lifetime was actually closer to ours than it was to the construction of the pyramids, or […]