Tag: green berets

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.

Successfully performing blood transfusions on the battlefield could stop most of the preventable combat deaths.

In SFAS you will feel the pain as individuals, but you cannot hope to pass unless you think and act as a team.

Africa will be a major theater of great-power competition and U.S. special operators will have a pivotal role to play in swinging the balance.

Our primary choice for a secondary (backup) firearm was the M-1911 .45 caliber blazer, legacy of the venerable John Moses Browning.

The duties of a casualty assistance officer may be hard, but the support they offer to a Gold Star widow is invaluable.

The military has begun a recruiting campaign aimed at gamers. But should it be focusing on other demographics instead?

Changiz Lahidji, the first Muslim Green Beret, also has the honor of being the longest-serving Special Forces member in history.

The fierceness of the north campaign was such that in the first few days Task Force Viking members would earn over 50 Bronze Stars and nearly 10 Silver Stars.

More than 1,200 names are engraved on the Special Operations Memorial Wall honoring the fallen. A symbol of our country’s eternal gratitude.

A year has passed since the Special Operations Forces (SOF) comprehensive review was released. What lies ahead for America’s elite troops?