TransitionHQ Coming Sep. 9 – Employer Beta Testers Needed

Team Room, SOFREP is proud to announce that our TransitionHQ website is coming online next Monday, September 9, and we need employer beta testers. We need your help for this. TransitionHQ is SOFREP’s military transition website. Our goal is to help military veterans from all services and all career areas to exit from the military […]

SOFREP Underground Reading Group: ‘Dirty Wars’ by Jeremy Scahill.

**UPDATE** The Reading Group poll for September has ended and the Winner is ‘Dirty Wars’ by Jeremy Scahill.  Here is the link to the thread discussion of this book. *UPDATE* The Reading Group poll for September is up now and can be found here. Voting ends on September 3rd, midnight Pacific time.  Hello Underground! Reading group […]

No Man Left Behind-True Stories of Inspired Friendship, Sacrifice & Heroism

Hi everyone- I’m rounding the corner to the finish line on my next book, and wanted to share the opening introduction with the Team Room. Enjoy. -Brandon Introduction After the dust settled from writing and releasing my memoir, The Red Circle, I was stuck about what to do for my next writing project. I was working on […]

My SOFREP Experience

Hey Team Room, Thanks to all of our new members for signing up and supporting SOFREP. I’m in the process of lining up some awesome new writers for the site and am really excited about that. I also wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to our new members. I grew up in New […]

True Stories of PTSD: It’s Been Over a Decade

It’s been over a decade and it seems like an eternity. I feel like a king who wishes to abdicate his throne, trying to gain something that is elusive. No matter how much time has passed, I still think of the war and it all comes rushing back like it’s happening in the now. I […]

Website Development Updates for Aug. 20, 2013

Team Room members, some of you may have received emails from the old Team Room website last night or this morning. These were sent out by mistake. We were testing some updates over there and published test articles. Because some of you had subscribed to website updates in the old commenting system, you received the […]

Masked Hajji at the Window!!

As the we pulled into the outskirts of Mosul I began seeing indicators that something was very fucking wrong. Pick-up trucks with masked men carrying weapons seemed to show up on every corner. The stress was rising… Even though we were traveling in a local vehicle, had beards and were wearing local clothes, the never […]

True Stories of PTSD: War Ensemble

I listen to the heavy metal band Slayer on my iPod as I write. Their music is the only thing that prepares me to write about war. The cacophony of words, the anger spewing from the guitars, the pure hate they create in my mind. War Ensemble, is one of my favorite songs. I remember […]

UPDATED: Mobile Update…Interrupted

Hey everybody, after significant testing on August 15th, we discovered a serious bug between the iPhone 4s and our commenting system, so we had to revert our mobile updates. We’re looking into this but it will be a few days before we can resolve it.  *** This will be a more sophisticated version of the […]

UPDATED: Commenting: On Fire, Under Fire, LiveFyre?

UPDATE: We decided to pull Livefyre down and use native WordPress commenting until we can provide a better commenting experience. Livefyre conflicts with our pages served in SSL, and that was causing a lot of usability issues for people. We’re working hard on a real solution – meanwhile, this should work for everybody. Team Room, […]

How To Change Your Display Name and Stay Stealthy

Hello Underground. Here’s an easy way to change your display name on on the Forums and Shoutbox brought to you by SOFREP Dev. It makes no sense to me as a Webmaster because you don’t change it in your account settings, but it works, so who am I to argue. 1. Login to Team Room […]