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Hello SOFREP subscribers! We’ve had a good year with USAA as a sponsor of our upcoming GROM video series, as well as the shows in our previously-released Inside the Team Room and Heroes of U.S. Special Operations series. Now it’s time to ask them to continue sponsoring us, but we need your help. USAA needs […]

The Special Operations Engineer Regiment (S.O.E.R.) is a new, unique addition to Australia’s Special Forces Command. It is a unit that began life in 1999 as the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Response (CBRR) unit. CBRR’s brief history included being part of the 2000 Olympic games security with the Joint Incident Response unit (JIRU), which was […]

FSK (Forsvarets Spesialkommando) is a special forces unit of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. The unit was established in 1982 due to the increased risk of terrorist activity against Norwegian interests, including the oil platforms in the North Sea. In peacetime, they are a support element to the Norwegian Police force and law enforcement agencies […]

The Special Air Service Regiment, officially abbreviated SASR, but commonly known as the SAS, is a special forces unit of the Australian Army. While it is modelled on the British SAS, with which it shares the motto “Who Dares Wins,” the regiment also draws on the experience of World War II Australian special reconnaissance and commando […]

The Sayeret Matkal (General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) is the principal SOF unit for Israel. Sayeret Matkal is also tasked with counter terrorism and hostage rescue beyond Israel’s borders. The unit is modeled after the British SAS.  In the IDF it is known as “the Unit.” The Israeli Army’s Sayeret Matkal (General Staff Commando Unit) began […]

The Polish GROM is one of five special forces units of the Polish Armed Forces. It was officially activated on July 8, 1990. It can be and is deployed in a variety of special operations and unconventional warfare roles, including anti-terrorist actions and projection of power behind enemy lines.(In Polish, GROM is sometimes translated Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego (Operational […]

by Mark L. Donald Battle Ready: the gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald. As A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors […]

Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) is a battalion-sized unit which is part of the secretive Joint Task Force 2, consisting of three specialized elite units, under the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, all of which has been active in the War on Terror. Though it is a relatively young force in the world of Special […]

The event that brought the SAS. to prominence and made the unit known worldwide was the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis, which lasted from April 30, to May 5, 1980. During this time, 6 Iranian separatists forced their way inside and held 26 members of the embassy staff at gunpoint. After negotiations broke down, the S.A.S. […]