Category: North America

A small crew of brave souls literally ‘held down the fort’ at Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West when Hurricane Irma passed nearby as a huge category four storm. Follow along with their posts… Naval Air Station Key West personnel who remained behind on the base, including commanding officer Capt. Bobby Baker, are in constant communication with […]

Photos taken after the attack on the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 have reappeared on the FBI’s website six years after they were first released. The 27 images show fire crews battling the blaze, as well as recovery teams and investigators searching the rubble. American Airlines Flight 77, travelling from Virginia to LA, slammed into […]

A California congressman wants to keep you from protecting your self and your family. Based on exaggerations and falsehoods, The stated purpose of “The Responsible Body Armor Possession Act,”  H.R. 5344, is to ban “the purchase, ownership, or possession of enhanced body armor by civilians.” Convicted felons are already prohibited from possessing body armor, so […]

As Hurricane Irma makes landfall on the continental United States, America’s military is already responding to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts in the Leeward Islands, where Irma left “catastrophic” levels of destruction, while preparing to do the same at home later this week. St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, […]

As I write this, Hurricane Irma is making landfall at the tip of Southern Florida.  Here in Georgia, current projections say my home, and family, are lucky enough to not get hit by the storm at its most powerful, but it’s now tracking to be a Category 3, hopefully a 2, upon its arrival in […]

The Trump administration made false assertions to justify an executive order expanding police forces’ access to military equipment such as tanks and grenade launchers. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday that President Trump would make defensive gear available to police again by undoing a policy from the Obama administration. Trump then signed an executive order whose […]

With a large portion of the country still working to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and another region now bracing itself for the destruction Hurricane Irma brings with it, the U.S. Army has been playing an active role in the preparation, rescue, and recovery efforts for weeks now.  Thursday, as Florida prepares for Irma’s arrival, the […]

For decades, robots have been being built that are increasingly capable and lifelike, but for the most part, it’s always been easy to differentiate a robot from a person.  Their clunky movements, inability to navigate varied terrain, and the whirring of servos and electric motors tends to make it pretty easy to tell the difference […]

As Texas and Louisiana struggle to recover from the massive destruction brought about by Hurricane Harvey, another state in the southern U.S. is now bracing for the arrival of the massive storm Hurricane Irma, and the military is no exception. As of Wednesday morning, Hurricane Irma has already become a Category 5 storm, and the […]

Robert Gordt joined the Kurdish YPG militia in March of 2017 and was martyred near Raqqa on July 5th.  Robert (or Rob or Bobby as some knew him) had a long history of political activism stretching back to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.  While the first wave of foreign volunteers who traveled to […]

America’s World War II aviators found themselves at the very forefront of warfighting technology, and as such, they also found themselves facing challenges never before encountered by anyone in combat. From night flying missions that had never been attempted, to massive aerial dogfights unlike anything to ever take place in the skies above us, these […]

The DoD will announce the name of a new director for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) Tuesday after 16 months of inaction through two administrations and some in-house machinations, SOFREP has learned. Today, there are 1,603 Americans still listed as missing in Southeast Asia (SEA) from the Vietnam War, including […]