Category: US SOCOM

The first time Olga felt the rumble of the M60 in her hands she was hooked, like a heroin addict shooting up dope; she couldn’t get enough.

Lying there, facedown in the sand with these four hardcase psychopaths doing their best to break me, I got what SEALs call a fire in the gut.

Navy SEAL Hell Week is grueling, but training on “The Rock” is the one of the toughest hurdles to becoming a SEAL.

A request from Air Force’s Special Operations Command for a new armed overwatch aircraft shows how AFSOC will operate in future SOF missions.

Jessica Donati was recently a guest on SOFREP Radio where she talked about her recent book and her years of work in Afghanistan. Ms. Donati wasn’t a journalist looking for a quick story spending a week in-country, getting a juicy tip, and then becoming an instant expert on everything Afghanistan. In fact, she was the exact […]

Nearly sixty years later, Paris Davis may finally be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions while serving with Special Forces in Vietnam.

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.”