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When I deployed, it was a similar circumstance, and I brought everything I could. Including any weapon I could get my hands on. A SCAR-H, the EGLM (40mm grenade launcher that looks like the SCAR), Aimpoints, EO Techs, an M-4 with a short barrel, long barrel, and under barrel 203 attachment, and my trusty camp buddy, the Glock 19. Needless to say I came with some baggage.
Once a CCT gets his JTAC rating, he is usually deemed fit to grab a spot on the next flight out to bad guy land. That could happen right away, or it could take another year of honing his skills and helping teach the new guys before a slot opens up.
This is where the SF guys really chimed in, on speculation, as to joining and being Delta Force.
Two years after completing Basic Training a CCT has been through SERE, Airborne, HALO, Air Traffic Control School, Combat Dive (open and closed circuit), as well as a myriad of CQB, Small Unit Tactics, trauma courses, etc.
The Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) are proving their worth and showing the incredible work done by Special Forces. The ISOF was in real danger of losing its effectiveness, because we left them hanging, as a nation. The result of our abandonment was a hopeless, not hopeful Iraq. The warfighters felt that hopelessness. The mission was […]
The Islamic State’s war on Europe seems to have entered a dangerous new phase, evolving from highly coordinated operations on the grand boulevards of Paris and Brussels to amateur assaults in the hinterlands that have suddenly turned anyone, anywhere into a target. The rapid-fire nature of the attacks in Europe over the past two weeks […]
SAS troops are on standby to evacuate British holidaymakers from Turkey amid fears of another military coup.
At its high point James had 14 former Delta operators in his program. Had had over 100 other company employees and new employees, all of whom James had hand-picked himself.
At least four security officers were killed and five injured in a suicide bombing Monday outside an Islamic holy site in Medina, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. The Monday evening attack took place just as thousands of worshippers were about to hold sunset prayers in the mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in […]
“Oh, I’m not worried about it George, this is just the first time today; he fires me several times a day.” James stood and stomped snow from his Danner boots.
I recently attended a shooting course taught by a former Navy SEAL. A small portion of that course covered some basic combatives (7 yards and in). When you’re 7 yards or closer to the bad guy you are considered to be within combatives range. Within this close distance things happen fast, really fast. You may […]
James took a step back and Conan the Barbarian took two steps forward. His clenched fists of fury slowly stiffened into the straight locked daggers of the dreaded knife hands. The audible pops of his carpel to metacarpal lock called all eyes in the shed to jerk toward the scene. All parachute packing activities momentarily froze in the space/time continuum, threatening a temporal rift.
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