Tag: Delta Force

Proximity to Samuel Booth Foster was key where survivability was concerned. He was the one you wanted nearby in the fight.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command added three names to a memorial wall outside the unit’s headquarters: Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 1st Sgt. Peter A. McKenna, Jr., and Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Q. McClintock. All were killed in combat in the last year.

Let’s get one thing straight: Sam Foster was an excruciatingly intelligent guy, and he was moderately to heavily eccentric.

The Weight of One Mission: Recounting the Death of Usama bin Laden, Five Years Later By: Nick Rasmussen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center   It’s a scene you never forget. The intensity. The focus. The stillness of a room. The weight of one mission. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with […]

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has negotiated multimillion-dollar oil deals with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), new documents retrieved from a U.S. raid against the radical Islamists’ oil chief have revealed. A U.S. special forces raid on ISIS’s oil minister—known by his nom de guerre Abu Sayyaf—in May 2015 saw the extraction of […]

“We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to violence on our behalf.”              That quote has been applicable since almost the beginning of time; certainly since the formation of nation states. The most well-known example of modern times will celebrate its anniversary this month, five years after assaulters […]

Delta Force and Navy SEALs have crippled the group’s ability to recruit foreign fighters and put pressure on the network responsible for striking Europe and Africa. As the self-proclaimed Islamic State [Daesh] trumpets its global terrorist campaign, U.S. special operations forces have quietly killed more than three dozen key Daesh operatives blamed for plotting deadly attacks […]

The Peshmerga Dizha Tiror, (Counter Terrorism Group) was established through the guidance and training of Delta Force and the British SAS. The selection and training for Dizha Tiror, was based on the experience of Delta Force and the SAS, but was tailored to meet the unique the mission set of the Kurdish Counter Terrorism Group.   A […]

The raid occurred south of Mosul, in Hammam al-Alil—42 miles from the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where U.S. and Kurdish forces launched their assault.

Teams from Delta Force have been a staple at the annual Best Ranger Competition in Fort Benning, Georgia for as long as I can remember.

Retired Delta Force operator and Ranger Josh Collins has embarked on a 3,500-mile trek—on a paddle board.

Despite the hype and panic in the media, it does appear that the noose is slowly tightening around ISIS. The question remaining is what will Syria look like after ISIS is destroyed?