History

In part 5, Marcinko talks about grooming standards and how he had “pick of the litter” when choosing the original members of SEAL Team Six.

From a quiet Mississippi upbringing to a rooftop in Marjah, Kyle Carpenter’s life is a study in what happens when ordinary resolve collides with an extraordinary moment.

When ICE agents execute incapacitated detainees on camera while wannabe tough guys cheer from their lifted F-150s with Punisher skull decals , we’ve crossed from law enforcement into discount-bin tyranny—and if you won’t call that out, you’re not a patriot, you’re just another bootlicker.

The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on its own people than many wars ever could.

This is part one of a nine-part series of interviews SOFREP conducted with SEAL Team-Six founder Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko

Ryan Pitts didn’t survive COP Keating because he was invincible; he survived because, in the chaos of a fight designed to kill him, he refused to quit.

Project 100,000 lowered enlistment standards during Vietnam, pulling in vulnerable recruits and sending many into high-risk jobs where the human cost showed up in higher deaths and worse outcomes after the war.

For two decades, the war in Afghanistan was fought as a coalition effort. NATO allies deployed to combat zones, took casualties, and shared the risks of a war that ultimately ended in failure.

April 21, 1989 the US Army Special Forces lost a legend in its ranks. Communist guerrillas assassinated COL. Nick Rowe while on his way to work as a military advisor to the Philippine Army. Rowe had escaped a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve 1968 while being taken to his execution. […]

A junior soldier’s first Al Mar purchase becomes the entry point into how Al Mar’s Special Forces ties, friendship with Nick Rowe, and SERE-driven design priorities shaped some of the most respected knives in the tactical world.

At treetop height over the Coral Sea, with fuel gauges bleeding toward empty and silence enforced by secrets that could not survive daylight, a handful of P-38 pilots flew straight into history to cut down the architect of Pearl Harbor.

Fort Gordon’s name has shifted from honoring Confederate Gen. John Brown Gordon to Fort Eisenhower and back again, now commemorating Medal of Honor recipient Delta Force operator Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, whose sacrifice at Mogadishu defines the values the Army wants the post to represent.