Commander Of SEAL Team Eight Killed In Training Accident
The Commanding Officer of SEAL Team 8 has died from his injuries after a fall from a helicopter during a training exercise in Virginia according to Navy officials
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The Commanding Officer of SEAL Team 8 has died from his injuries after a fall from a helicopter during a training exercise in Virginia according to Navy officials
Staffed with the toughest and most resourceful soldiers the U.K. has to offer, the SAS only accepts the cream of the crop.
Despite the skill of the pilots and the quality of the platform, helocasting can be harrowing.
Do you think that your mother-in-law cooks a bad turkey? That’s because you haven’t been with the Green Berets in Bolivia!
The underground, conduct operations in areas that the guerrillas wouldn’t normally operate such as in areas under the control of the occupying power.
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Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division undergo SURT, or Small Unit Ranger Tactics, a program designed to prepare them to be Army Rangers.
“The violent extremism that attacked us on 9/11 is still there. We can never forget that,” Clarke said.
“We are going to rescue 70 POWs from a camp called Son Tay. This is something American prisoners have a right to expect.”
Well, there I was, attending the Special Operations Combat Medic Course (SOCM), the Army’s elite combat medic course in Fort Bragg, NC.
Even among the ranks of American special operators, Marcinko, his record, and his reputation are all exceptional — and it’s easy to see why.
The Delta Force hostage-rescue operation was one of the first for the Unit that views itself as a group of “quiet professionals.”