Category: Navy

By the time I fell asleep, I was resigned to just getting on with it. I’d had enough fearful anticipation of SERE School’s unknown terrors.

SERE was a “No-Fail” school. If for some reason you don’t make it through they revoke your security clearance. If that happened, I’d be done.

The SERE School training area was in a classified area near the Naval Air Station; its dread status was the stuff of fact, myth, and legend.

Weapons smuggling off the Somali coast is common, but last week the U.S. Navy seized thousands of Russian-made AK-47s, RPGs and machine guns.

Navy SEAL training is widely known as one of the most grueling in the world, but it’s the instructors who assess and shape the future SEALs.

“I’m very excited that they’re going to get to go downrange and at least achieve some sense of normalcy,” one Navy officer said Friday.

In his new book, Never Enough, former Navy SEAL Mike Hayes explores the excellence that comes from being pushed to your max.

That speech ultimately ended his career, but he still thinks it was necessary to deliver a tough message to the crew.

Quieter, more lethal Russian subs are a new challenge, but US and NATO navies are on top of it, the head of US Naval Forces Europe says.

China’s antics in the South China Sea are not new, but a form of Soviet Cold War tactics aimed at misdirection and the spread of propaganda.

Chris Kyle was the best sniper in U.S. military history. His death — shot by a veteran at a Texas shooting range — belied the man’s greatness.

This was my first exposure to that aspect of military planning we fondly call FUBAR: fucked up beyond all repair.