Veteran Culture

Day 2 of SHOT Show wasn’t even a blip less exciting than day one was. Check out some of the awesome gears that I found.

Out of the ashes of the 9/11 Attacks, a stock trader joined the Navy as an intelligence officer and is now on a mission to train and educate service members on how to manage their wealth using an innovative crowd-sourced intelligence method used to locate a missing nuclear submarine.

SHOT Show tries to bring the entire sport shooting, hunting, camping, and outdoors industry all into one room every year. Better make that bringing them all into two convention centers and a bunch of rooms.

SHOT Show is the largest convention of its kind in the world. 2,400 exhibitors and 43,000 attendees representing the sports shooting, hunting, and outdoors industries. SOFREP will be covering the newest products and innovations coming in 2022.

Former Navy SEAL and later Delta Force Chief Surgeon Bob Adams tells the story of the near loss of his six-year-old son to an infection. Bob was then a third-year medical student but he knew something wasn’t right about the treatment his son was receiving.

A federal judge in Texas has just stopped the COVID vaccine mandate in its tracks when it comes to punishing service members for requesting religious waivers against taking the vaccination. The judge charges in the injunction that the Navy system used to process religious waivers is a farce with rejection already predetermined.

As we welcome the start of a new year, SOFREP would like to honor these 10 veterans, leaders, and heroes we lost in 2021.

The Russian Mercenaries of Wagner Group are the stars of a new film lauding their work in Mozambique. It seems more to us like an infomercial for Wagner than entertainment.

We, humans, have different ways of commemorating our deceased loved ones. One way is by leaving coins on the gravestones.

Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient Gary Beikirch passed away the day after Christmas after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 72. His heroic actions as a Special Forces Medic in an isolated village of Montagnards in Vietnam are the stuff of legends. Badly wounded himself and unable to stand or walk, he had himself carried to various casualties in order to treat their wounds.

Many people will either be hosting or heading out to holiday parties and get-togethers to celebrate Christmas and the upcoming New Year. Others will take the time to rest and recharge their batteries and spend some quiet time at home.  If you are one of the latter and want to spend some quiet time reading […]

Brian Hudson gives a funny take on how deploying to so many bases and so many places make it hard to remember sometimes where you actually are settled in finally.