Team Room

Pat watched as a car approached in the distance. It was late afternoon.  The city of Homs was burning.  Again. The mercenaries had managed to fight their way out of the city and find a defendable position to bunker down in until they were extracted.  Pat had also sent out a few scouting parties to […]

            Nadeesha smiled and the young NGO worker responded in kind.             He was a young kid with one of the save-the-children type non-governmental organizations that scooted back and forth across the border everyday.  She had told him that she was a freelance journalist who had gotten trapped behind enemy […]

New Haven, Connecticut Two weeks later:              McCoy turned over in bed as his wife grumbled next to him.  The phone on the nightstand was ringing.  The red numbers on the clock said that it was three in the morning.  Rubbing his eyes, the retired General knew that only a handful […]

New York City              Ted Snyder nervously tapped his foot against the floor. “Relax,” the younger of the two Biermann brothers told him, seeing the worried expression on his face.  “The medical examiner confirmed that it was a heart attack.” “Maybe they weren’t looking for the right thing in the tox […]

            The twin rotor blades on the CH-47 helicopter slowly, almost lazily, began to turn as the pilots cranked the engine. The forward operating base at Tarin Kot, Afghanistan was stirring, slowly at first, but more and more Multi-Cam clad Special Operations soldiers began to arrive at the airfield.  They […]

160th SOAR: Special Operations Aviation Regiment.  Army helicopter unit which flies Special Operations missions, often delivering Special Operations soldiers to their targets.   AAR: After Action Review. Soldiers typically conduct an AAR post-mission to evaluate what was done wrong and how to improve performance for the next mission.   AK-103: An updated form of the […]

The plot of this novel is a work of fiction which ties a series of events together into a story, however, most of the individual situations, scenarios, and conversations in this book depict and describe factual events.  The author was told by numerous people in the Special Operations and Intelligence Community that he would be […]

I had the chance to connect with my brother, who’s been doing water rescue patrol for the past 10 years at Mavericks. Luckily for me, my brother grew up with the founder’s son Kevin Clarke, Jeff Clarke’s son. If you don’t know the story, here are the cliff notes. Jeff surfed these waves for something like […]

I’ve been to a few open bar parties in my life, and what more does one attending an open bar party like to hear? “Drink up!” One of them was for the Maxim Hot 100, and another was for all of you Team Room members. Thanks for being there and making what we do really […]

One of the first booths at this years SHOT show was the Yates Gear booth. I do a decent amount of rock climbing and mountaineering for fun throughout the year so these tactical harnesses caught my eye pretty quick. Take a tour with Eric and John on the latest in Yates Gear. -Nick

FOREWORD By Jack Murphy Whenever I talk to active duty special operations soldiers, both sergeants and officers, they all have one question in common, “What the hell are we doing?” That may be the question of this generation of soldiers and intelligence professionals. Sorry, America, you won’t get much of an answer to that question […]

Heath Robinson was fanatical about learning and doing whatever it took to become the best operator he possible.