Category: SOF

Night Stalkers don’t get the luxury of easy nights—their training flights cut low and fast through blacked-out timber, where one wrong move can turn a routine drill into a headline.

Flying with the Night Stalkers, whether fast-roping from a Black Hawk, thundering in a Chinook, or clinging to the skids of a Little Bird, showed me firsthand why these aviation professionals are the lifeline of America’s most elite warriors.

Congress can treat this report like a weather brief before a combat jump—ignore the winds at your peril, because landing in the wrong county means the mission’s blown before the first shot’s fired.

Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Michael Murphy surprises his parents with one last moving phone call.

Today in SOFREP’s Team Room, Rad delves into the gritty realities of being a Navy SEAL sniper, probing the deep and often unspoken memories of warfare that define the lives and legacies of Brandon Webb and Charlie Melton.

Vegas may be a city that never sleeps, but that day, standing in front of Chainsaw with his broken cane and unwavering grin, I knew that some connections run deeper than any lights, noise, or the ghosts we carry in our heads.

Chainsaw took that round like he took everything in life—head-on, with a laugh and a quick curse, pushing forward while the rest of us wondered how he was still standing.

Delta Force operators pose with a Special Operations Military Working Dog.

Born out of the ashes of the Munich Massacre, GSG 9 became the model of modern counterterrorism—disciplined, lethal when required, and a direct inspiration for America’s Delta Force.

Special operations forces are stepping into a battlefield where silicon and code now hit as hard as steel and muscle.

Rangers on Ambien at 36,000 feet—sleepwalking, eating unpeeled oranges, and even climbing the C-17 mid-flight.

Hanging by a cheek on an MH-6 Little Bird, a sniper recalls the cold, chaos, and grit of flying with the Night Stalkers.