US SOCOM

Navy SEAL training is widely known as one of the most grueling in the world, but it’s the instructors who assess and shape the future SEALs.

Camp Mackall is the heart of Special Forces training, but most people don’t know its interesting history, let alone that it exists.

It was a mission gone bad, the kind where heroes die and are later written about, and some Hollywood profiteer makes a killing on the movie.

In the middle of the second night there, we were told to strip naked. We stayed that way while they hosed us down with freezing cold water…

This was my first exposure to that aspect of military planning we fondly call FUBAR: fucked up beyond all repair.

“My class started with 150 students,” a former SEAL officer said. “At the end of Hell Week, only 24 were there, some of them pretty beat up.”

The legacy of John Zinn is his ability to compel people to rally around a vision and achieve the impossible, in the military and in life.

A firefight on the streets of Iraq in 2004 led John Zinn to form Indigen Armor, a brand new take on up-armored trucks for Special Operators.

John Zinn was always motivated by his dreams. Some of those dreams were bigger than the Navy SEALs, but they never quite clicked for him.

A sailor and K9 from Naval Special Warfare Group One practice crevasse self-recovery during austere high altitude environment training.

John Zinn was not the stereotypical Navy SEAL; He looked like your average skinny surf bum. But underneath he had grit and determination.

On top of the sentence, DeDolph was demoted to the rank to E-1, made to forfeit his pay and allowances, and will be dishonorably discharged.