green berets

“We are going to rescue 70 POWs from a camp called Son Tay. This is something American prisoners have a right to expect.”

Well, there I was, attending the Special Operations Combat Medic Course (SOCM), the Army’s elite combat medic course in Fort Bragg, NC.

The Special Forces’ pre-scuba and Combat Diver Qualification Courses may have a serious safety problem.

In a war with China, allied and partner commando units that U.S. special operation forces have helped stand up or train would be an advantage for the U.S. military.

From the profane to the hilarious and the nonsensical these military and tactical expressions leave most civilians baffled.  

“This is an absolute tragedy, especially when we lose someone as capable and promising as Lincoln,” said the commander of 19th SFG.

We practiced chopping through heavy steel vault doors and several feet of reinforced concrete wall — and doing it all while down in bottomless holes!

Geo’s “Brothers of the Cloth” is probably the best account of the men who comprise Delta Force, our nation’s top special operations unit.

Rushing to recover the body of his dead comrade Melvin Morris took on the North Vietnamese for hours. His actions earned him the Medal of Honor.

The woobie has been the infantryman’s indispensable companion since Vietnam, and is now also used widely by civilians.

Foreign language capability provides the special operator with a comparative advantage. But now Congress fears this capability is atrophying.

While he was a more than capable Green Beret, Richard Flaherty — who was just 4 feet, 9 inches tall — had to fight just to join the Army.