Category: History

Warriors from different cultures have their own rituals to prepare themselves just before the war. Here are three of them:

In part seven of the Dick Marcinko interviews, Dick tells us about the formation of Red Cell, a command set up to test the defensive capabilities of military and government installations against terrorist attacks. Rather than employ the expertise and gear available to a SEAL Team in testing these facilities, Marcinkos team operated with nothing more on hand that a good “Second Story Man” would have at his disposal.

In part six lf the Dick Marcinko interviews, we learn that training SEALs to fly airplanes was a big problem for the Navy brass. And speaking of brass, SEAL Team Six had a bigger budget for ammunition than the entire Marine Corps.

In part 5 of the Dick Marcinko interviews we learn about the formation of Team Six, their unique system of organizing their weapons and gear and even the whipsaw effect of enforcing grooming standards and then relaxing them.

Today, dentures are made from a mix of resin and acrylic. However, there was a time when people preferred something more… natural.

Humanity’s creativity in designing weapons of destruction is truly amazing. Sticky bombs are one proof of that.

Part of of SOFREP’s interview with Dick Marcinko on the formation of SEAL Team-Six. This episode is about Operation Eagle Claw, the failed desert mission to rescue fifty-two American hostages in Iran.

On December 30, 2009,  in the Afghanistan city of Khowst, Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi entered a meeting of CIA agents for a briefing as an informant for the agency.  He detonated a suicide vest killing five CIA agents and two contractors working for the CIA. Other deaths included the Jordanian Intelligence Case […]

We may have formed a lot of misconceptions about Roman Gladiators. It’s about time we straighten them out.

In part 3, SEAL Team 6 founder Dick Marcinko talks about SEALs in combat in the jungles of the Vietnam-Laotian border. An eight-man team against over 200 North Vietnamese regulars. They did have one advantage, artillery.

You know about the Eiffel Tower but, have you heard about the Flak Tower, which Hitler ordered built during WWII?

SOFREP Founder and CEO, Brandon Webb, remembers his meeting with SEAL Team 6 founder, Richard “Dick” Marcinko.