The Pic of the Day: How to save a life

The Pic of the Day: How to save a life

U.S. Soldiers from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and 30th Medical Brigade participate in Operation Courageous Defense, a collective training exercise designed to showcase integrated medical operations in the European theater, March 5. As part of their preparations for DEFENDER-Europe 20, a theater-wide exercise with the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than […]

The Pic of the Day: New York National Guard getting some field time

The Pic of the Day: New York National Guard getting some field time

Soldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guard’s, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 69th Infantry, assault a position during training at the 106th Rescue Wing, F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., on January, 11, 2020. Soldiers of the 69th Infantry conducted ground combat-focused field exercises at the 106th RQW as part […]

The Pic of the Day: Now that’s some old school badassery

The Pic of the Day: Now that’s some old school badassery

Maj. Light Shin, 173rd Airborne Brigade chaplain, talks with retired U.S. Army Master Sgt. Richard Adams, a former 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratrooper who was involved in the retaking of Corregidor Island in 1945, during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of U.S. service members regaining control of the island at the U.S. Embassy […]

Special Forces selection stories can be hilarious

Special Forces selection stories can be hilarious

Sometimes it is weird how a picture or something you see on television can trigger a memory. The odd thing is that many times, these things can be totally unrelated to the memories that they trigger and yet, they all come back in a flash. And this one memory about being a student in the Special […]

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman: From zero to hero and back again

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman: From zero to hero and back again

From Zero to Hero It wasn’t too long ago that the President’s foes, broadly known as “The Resistance” were saying that anyone serving on Trump’s White House staff are traitors.  Try not to be surprised that the Resistance is now outraged that the President dismissed two Army Colonels on detail to the White House NSC […]

The Video of the Week: What’s it like to be a support guy on a SOF unit?

The Video of the Week: What’s it like to be a support guy on a SOF unit?

Special Operations units aren’t comprised of just shooters and pipehitters. Each SOF unit has a large number of support personnel — in Tier 1 Special Mission Units (SMU), such Delta Force and SEAL Team Six, support folks outnumber shooters. Support troops and enablers are crucial to mission success, but they often go unheeded. This video […]

SOFREP launches new publishing business, looking for military genre authors

SOFREP launches new publishing business, looking for military genre authors

The publishing industry is experiencing a massive transformation right now. Traditional booksellers and publishers find themselves continually marginalized by not adapting to the digital age of “on-demand” publishing. This disruption and tightening of the digital noose on the neck of traditional publishing houses have also caused most publishers to take fewer risks on new authors. […]

Hand-to-hand trench combat video highlights the danger of combat loadouts

Hand-to-hand trench combat video highlights the danger of combat loadouts

The Civil War in Yemen has been going on for four years. On the one side, there are the Shia Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran. On the other side is the Sunni Yemeni government, which is backed by a substantial coalition of Sunni nations, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. […]

How Airmen prepare for Ranger School

How Airmen prepare for Ranger School

Airmen aspiring to attend and complete the suckfest called Ranger School have to first complete an assessment course that evaluates their potential and prepares them for the real deal. The Air Force Ranger Assessment Course has been around for a few years. It is a three-week course that sharpens basic soldiering tasks, including land navigation, […]

Is the Draft coming back? Fear Mongering at its best

Is the Draft coming back? Fear Mongering at its best

Perhaps the most bizarre belief to come out of the events from last week’s airstrike against Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, was that it was going to automatically trigger WWIII. The fear was that Soleimani’s elimination was going to be the Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment that was the match in 1914 […]

Op-ed: A Marine’s thoughts about women in Special Operations and close-combat roles, the good and the bad

Op-ed: A Marine’s thoughts about women in Special Operations and close-combat roles, the good and the bad

Women and men are becoming more integrated across the Department of Defense (DoD), particularly in the regular infantry, which is a reversal of the traditional structure throughout the U.S. military’s history. Women can do amazing things. They have graduated from Ranger School; passed the excruciating Marine Corps Basic Reconnaissance Course; and now graduated from the […]

Why we fight: A warrior’s perspective on service

Why we fight: A warrior’s perspective on service

I remember being in my Aqua Blue 1994 Single Cab 4 Banger Toyota Tacoma and driving to my high school in Temecula. It was my senior year and I already knew that I was going to serve. Coming from a family of immigrants it was ingrained in me to give back to the country that […]