Tag: green berets

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.

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?