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Ocala, FL — A man has been proclaimed guilty by a jury of his peers and sentenced to 30 years for human trafficking. Ocala, a town of approximately 57,000 people, lies in the central Florida in Marion county. Marion County Detective Zackary Hughes said that, “This was the fourth case of human trafficking case in […]

April 27, 1865 — The Sultana was overcrowded with almost 2,000 recently released Union soldiers that had been held by the Confederacy. They were packed into the steam boat as it powered up a relentless spring-time flood on the Mississippi river, and though it was cramped, many were probably happy to be there. After the […]

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a United Kingdom based conflict zone monitor that has documented the current situation in Afrin, Syria. They have focused heavily on the Turkish occupation that has resulted from their military incursion into Syria under Operation Olive Branch. On Wednesday they released the statement that, “Demographic change is being carried out, […]

Earlier this month, the United States Special Operations Command gathered a group of experts in New York City to discuss a significant threat facing the nation. SOCOM has a storied history of staying at the forefront of the warfighting endeavor; taking the fight to places Americans don’t always expect and operating beyond the confines of […]

The Makarov pistol was Russia’s solution to the need for a modern military side arm and caliber after World War 2. It was a replacement for the TT33 Tokarev, a pistol that was deemed too large and over powered for practical use any more; it also lacked a manual safety, something that most military’s desire […]

The Office of the Chief of Army in Australia has recently announced that “what could be termed ‘death’ symbology/iconography” is to be eliminated from their military culture. The memo, written by Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, Chief of Army, listed several examples of such iconography, followed by why the symbol negatively represents the Australian Army: “pirate […]

The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program has been the basic hand-to-hand combat system employed by the United States Marine Corps since 2002, and as I’ve written about in the past, it tends to get dragged through the mud by young guys with limited experience and a lot of bravado. In order to complete recruit training, […]

The Taliban coordinated two simultaneous attacks on Monday, resulting in the deaths of 14 Afghani troops and police officers. Both attacks occurred across the Badghis province, in the northwestern part of the country near the border of Turkmenistan. The first attack happened in the Ab Kamari District to the west, where nine soldiers were killed. […]

Guest Author Carl Higbie When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 the founding fathers made it simple. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Note the sometimes-inconspicuous commas between each subject denoting that; militia, […]

Kabul, Afghanistan — An explosion ripped through Afghanistan‘s capital on Sunday, killing at least 57 people and wounding over a hundred as they lined up to register to vote. Reports indicated the deaths of five children and 21 women, though specific numbers of casualties are still rising and remain unclear. A suicide bomber had placed himself […]

For the first time, a federal agency recognized that exposure to burn pits used at a US military forward operating base may cause lung disease. This January an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) in the Department of Labor (“DOL”) found that burn pit exposure caused lung disease in a government contractor working in Iraq. Ever since, […]

Dedication of this writing goes to SOFREP’s Mr. Henri Smith, 82nd Airborne Division. “The Poor We Shall Always Have Among Us, but Why the Hungry? And why the child molesters? Who are the child defilers among us and why are there so many of them yet nobody seems to be one? I am put in […]