Veteran Culture

The Marine Corps released a new document containing recruitment strategies that may let some future Marines skip boot camp.

The Air Force has discharged twenty-seven enlisted airmen for refusal to get the COVID vaccine. This occurred during the ongoing battle playing out in the courts, the media and in Congress over government authority to issue such mandates in the first place.

Historians tend to lay most of the blame for Nazi atrocities at the feat of the Waffen SS, but the “Wehrmacht” or regular army was more than capable of rapacity and mass slaughter as well. Especially the anti-partisan units the Germans sent to occupy Greece in WWII.

The origins of the National Guard are older than America itself as a country. At 385 years old, the National Guard is the nation’s oldest military branch.

Why are we seeing so many senior officers being replaced for “A lack of confidence” in their leadership qualities these days? It’s a system that is supposed to weed out weak leaders before they can be in a position to do real harm. Maybe the way we now evaluate leadership has changed and we didn’t notice it.

SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.

General Bipin Rawat the Chief of Staff of the Indian military has been killed with at least eleven others in a fiery helicopter crash in northern India. General Rawat, was traveling with his wife and staff to the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to deliver a lecture. He was sixty-three years old and came from a family of distinguished military service.

Navigating through all the various and often contradictory COVID rules and regulations while travelling can be tedious and more than just a little aggravating. On a recent trip to New York City, the Editor In Chief for SOFREP found its people were rather defiant about enforcing the rules and regulations imposed on them by Mayor Deblasio, and that the city seemed pretty safe in spite of media reports that crime was rampant.

Marijuana is still a contentious issue. Although 37 states have legalized it in some form the VA has a very uneasy relationship with it.

Can an Airman live next to an Army base and survive? Time to find out.

Teamwork, sacrifice, and competitiveness; here are six sports icons than you probably didn’t know served in the U.S. Military.

I do not define myself by my military service. It was the longest job I’ve ever held, with some of the proudest and most horrible moments I’ve ever had.