Category: The Pic of the Day

SOAR pilots insert Delta operators gently on top of an airliner.

SOFREP’s own resident ex Delta operator is shown here training with British SAS commandos. Photo by Geo Hand

Fireteam level training allows Marines to refine small-unit tactics, developing proficiency at the lowest level before executing combined arms-training.

Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) fast rope from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, from the 31st MEU’s Air Combat Element (ACE), during a fast rope exercise on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), while sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

A U.S. Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 19.1, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, dons his M50 gas mask during a theater-security cooperation event in Tifnit, Morocco.

SHINKA is a bilateral Exercise with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force that exemplifies a shared commitment to realistic training that produces lethal, ready, and adaptable forces capable of decentralized operations across a wide range of missions.

An F-22 Raptor flies at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

An SH-60J Super Hawk of Helicopter Patrol Squadron 25 “Ominato” lands aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) during Surface Action Group operations as a part of exercise “Noble Wolf”.

As the Marine Corps Reserve’s premier annual training event, ITX provides opportunities to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for a deployment.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands’ areas of responsibility.

Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont National Guard, taxi to an aircraft shelter on Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

The late Delta operator Sam Foster (left) is pictured beside an unidentified soldier from the 22nd SAS Regiment (right).