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Phil Campion, former British SAS, interviews Danny Jackson. Danny was a paratrooper and he was medically discharged after a motorcycle accident in 2000. Currently he owns a company called Pig Emporium. He talks with Phil about the struggles of veterans that are forced to transition into civilian life after a serious injury. Check out the video […]
As I have discussed before in parts one, two, and three, proper military interrogations require a substantial degree of personal insight, training, certifications, and techniques. As a result, this series was not intended to be an all-encompassing guide for every type of scenario an interrogator may face. Rather, it should be viewed as a very […]
Wayne is a good friend of mine, and has a very accomplished track record in the SEAL community and now as an Executive in the Defense industry. We were both talking and swapping sea stories when Wayne said, “we should do a weekly series where guys can share there experiences with the SOFREP community.” So […]
I was with 1st Group of the Green Berets (GB) Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 155 at Aleutian Island chain Naval Air Station (NAS) Adak, Alaska. We were the combat dive detachment in my battalion. We were been given a most unusual mission to execute in Adak as part of a training exercise: mimic a Russian Spetsnaz […]
2016 seems to have had a more than usual number of military pilots that have been lost. As you read the many stories of crashes and accidents you may have seen someone comment, “Throw a Nickel on the Grass.” There may be a bit of debate about the exact origins of the saying but all […]
The word refugee has a number of connotations in today’s social climate. Concerns about refugees from Syria have made the term politically polarizing. With one group concerned about the security of the nations that takes them in, and the other concerned about the well-being of the refugees themselves, neither party is objectively wrong. To be […]
After 70 or so kilometers of travel, humping a 100 pound large Alice pack over mountainous terrain for the previous several days and living on minimal food I was a walking zombie. I had just finished navigating my small element to a road intersected by a large river, “Sgt this is our point”. Our Cadre […]
Like many veterans, I have a love/hate relationship with the VA. The Department of Veterans Affairs sends me a check every month for the parts of my knees that won’t grow back, the metal screen in my stomach, the various screws and pins they cobbled me together with, and they even put up the cash […]
Fallout 4 is the latest installment in Bethesda’s radiation infused, post-apocalyptic video game series. The game follows the story of either a male or female protagonist as they survive the onset of nuclear war, only to watch their spouse die and have their young child kidnapped. The male hero of the story is a decorated […]
About seven years ago, I found myself with a few days to kill in Cairo, Egypt. Before getting there, my understanding of the North African nation could probably be summed up in a single sentence: There are pyramids, a sphinx, and lots of sand. And I was right, for a change. It was the rest of […]
One of the favorite hobbies of many Rangers is to sit around war gaming, as many elite soldiers do, plotting and planning how they would take down various types of targets. Some of us would engage in lighthearted speculation about the best way to rob a bank. Smarter Rangers would suggest stealing diamonds or committing […]
In the Special Forces pipeline, everyone goes to SERE school (Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape). One of the most powerful concepts they teach is winning small victories. If you can win even a small victory, you can stay motivated in an impossible situation. SERE school starts with classroom training on the Code of Conduct, then continues with […]
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