Delta Force Tale; Sister-Sister

Delta Force Tale; Sister-Sister

Dedication for this work goes to Ms. Kelly Harp “I really think you should go in and talk to her right away; I mean this very evening — right now!” The text string coming in from my Internet Drag Netter in Vermont was every bit importuning me to comply. She got that way now and […]

Delta Force Tale; Iron Maiden

Delta Force Tale; Iron Maiden

Read part I here and part II here. Dedication for this work goes to Doctor Taylor Mac; a friend, and mentor I counted: “One thousand one, one thousand two …” All paratroopers inherently count when they are falling. I mean they can’t not do it. They have to count seconds when falling. It is hard-coded into […]

June 7, 2006, Task Force 145 Takes Out al-Zarqawi in Iraq

June 7, 2006, Task Force 145 Takes Out al-Zarqawi in Iraq

In 2006, Iraq was a very dangerous place to be. Civil war wracked the country, the casualty rates for U.S. troops was the highest it had been since the United States had invaded. It had a lot to do with the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. From 2005 until his death in 2006, Abu Musab […]

Veterans are not as sacred as Americans try to pretend they are, not even war heroes

Veterans are not as sacred as Americans try to pretend they are, not even war heroes

Many were shocked and caught off guard the other day when retired General Thomas McInerney went on Fox News (where he is a paid contributor) and claimed that Senator John McCain betrayed his country while being tortured by Vietnamese communist forces during the war. He referred to McCain as Songbird John. I was not amongst […]

Black helicopters over Manhattan for JSOC training exercise

Black helicopters over Manhattan for JSOC training exercise

The night of April 17th, New Yorkers were rattled by the sound and sight of low flying helicopters buzzing around southern Manhattan. In this case, there was nothing to be alarmed about; New York City had announced that the flights would occur and the gents flying the helicopters are the best in the world: The […]

Hometown of “Black Hawk Down” MOH Operator To Plan Memorial

Hometown of “Black Hawk Down” MOH Operator To Plan Memorial

The town of Lincoln, Maine is teaming with the Special Forces Charitable Trust to build a memorial dedicated to the men who died in Somalia in 1993. Master Sgt. Gary Gordon and Sgt. 1st Class Randall Shughart were forever immortalized when they made the fateful decision to stay and fight, defending the injured soldiers at […]

TigerSwan: Former Delta Operator sought to incite violence at the Dakota Access Pipeline

TigerSwan: Former Delta Operator sought to incite violence at the Dakota Access Pipeline

It was early afternoon on October 11th, 2016 when TigerSwan’s program manager, retired Delta Force Sergeant Major John Porter, met with Silverton’s owner, Carl Clifton, inside a hangar at the Mandan Municipal Airport. The hangar was initially used by Silverton security as a clandestine office for their intelligence cell that collected information on the protesters, […]

First Gulf War Air Campaign Begins January 17, 1991

First Gulf War Air Campaign Begins January 17, 1991

On this day in 1991, Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as the US along with other coalition countries began a massive bombing campaign against the Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis had invaded the country of Kuwait during the summer of 1990 and the coalition began forming up to force Iraq to […]

Delta Dreamscape; The Mortar Ring and close air support

Delta Dreamscape; The Mortar Ring and close air support

(you can read part I here) At once I was startled as I nearly plowed into the back of the halted mortar ring. Halted?? Excitement was crawling into my gut. I was then alarmed by the realization that I was standing on the port side (left) of the ring… the flat side that it would […]

UKSOF under pressure to lower standards for women

UKSOF under pressure to lower standards for women

London, Great Britain—The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering lowering the Special Forces entry requirements to give women a better chance at succeeding. The nature of the SAS and SBS selection process, requiring extreme upper body fitness, amongst others, is thought by some to be discriminating towards women, who naturally have smaller body frames and […]

Inside the AK-74

Inside the AK-74

The AK-74 Kalashnikov automatic rifle model 1974  (Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1974 года) was developed  by  Mikhail Kalashnikov as the replacement for the  AKM. After see the of the effectiveness American 5.56 x 45mm round in Vietnam, the Russians developed 5.45×39mm cartridge, an faster, flat shooting upgrade over the 7.62×39mm AK-47 round and Mikhail but a gun for it. When these rifles first […]