SOF

Perhaps SEAL Team SIX forgot their clown car as they could barely lead a VIP to the local airport without disastrous results.

Second phase of BUD/S doesn’t just test your body—it tries to crush your soul, your sanity, and, occasionally, your ability to keep your reproductive organs in their rightful place.

In a bold and controversial move, Marcinko transformed his operators into skilled pilots, acquiring civilian planes for rapid response to hijacking crises, embodying the essence of a self-sufficient, covert unit.

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.

In this riveting fourth interview of the series, “Demo” Dick Marcinko recounts the birth of SEAL Team Six during the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, detailing his role in crafting this elite unit from the ground up under the directive of Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, against the backdrop of a critical period in U.S. military history.

A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.

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.

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.

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.

He proved the warrior-poet is real when he turned a punji-stick tourniquet and a Green Beret tab into a chart-topping hymn, then proved the other half of the equation when the discipline slipped, the hearth went cold, and the same fire that made art started taking bodies.

The Navy finally built a fitness test that looks like the work its most dangerous sailors actually do, not the paperwork they fill out afterward.