Here’s to Demo Dick, a true American legend, whose stories of the evolution from UDT to Navy SEALs not only entertain but inspire, reminding us all to Sleep, Eat And Live it up just like the Naval special operators do.
This is part one of a nine-part series of interviews SOFREP conducted with SEAL Team-Six founder Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko
What was sold as a modern, mechanized campaign has devolved into Russian troops riding horses and packing donkeys through a drone-infested kill zone, a bleak and unmistakable sign that Moscow’s war machine is exhausted, improvising with animals because steel, fuel, and time have all run out.
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.
The reactivated 11th Airborne Division, Alaska-based and built for Arctic warfighting, was placed on standby for Minnesota because it offers fast-deploying Title 10 combat power with cold-weather mobility and a high-end escalation signal even though many readers know far more about the 82nd and 101st.
General Eichelberger, a man of quiet competence and strategic brilliance, emerged as an under-recognized hero during World War II.
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A light helicopter over hostile bush. No spectacle, no margin for error. Just rotors, troops, and a war fought close and fast.
Alan Magee fell 22,000 feet from a B-17 without a parachute, crashed through a train station roof in France, and survived.
Under fire in Vietnam, Bernie Fisher landed on a shattered runway, loaded his wounded wingman, and flew out through bullets to save a life.
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