Tag: Delta

Has anyone else picked up on how every movie portrayal of Special Operations personnel that they always got our guys wearing a kafiya?  You know those local neck scarves that they sell in the souk but people don’t actually wear that often in the Middle East?  The look has become so ubiquitous that I’ve even seen […]

Tora Bora. We didn’t get Bin Laden because we couldn’t. WHAT!!! I thought we didn’t get Bin Laden because we mistakenly trusted the Afghans to do what they had promised, and we ignored very competent men on the ground who wanted to commit available US forces to the rear of Tora Bora to block Bin […]

“I have stood here before inside the pouring rain, with the world turning circles running round my brain.” -Words from King of Pain by the Police It is said that part of Sting’s inspiration for the song King of Pain was James Bond, as he wrote the song while he was staying at Ian Fleming’s house in […]

Chainsaw doesn’t consider himself to be a tall man, though he is just fine with his height. I have never considered him to be a short man, that’s just the way it is. Let’s just say that Chainsaw is no Liam Neeson, but he is a Tom Cruise. Perhaps not quite as good looking, but […]

Part of me dies inside when I hear people talk about “tier one” or white “vanilla” special operations in relation to so-called black special operations.  The public throws these words around, but realistically, they only do it because of the the number of active duty and retired special operations soldiers who use these words without having a clue […]

In the 1970’s a new form of warfare was emerging: international terrorism.  Two counter-terrorist missions that America initially found itself unable to cope with were situations in which a terrorist barricaded himself inside a structure with hostages or when hostages were taken inside a tubular vehicle such as an airplane.  While the Army’s premier counter-terrorist […]

It was still dark when Master Sergeant Don Hollenbaugh heard the call to prayer echoing from a minaret 300 meters to the north. The haunting sound unsettled the Delta operator. “This is not going to be a good day,” he told Staff Sergeant Dan Briggs, a twenty-eight-year-old Delta medic kneeling beside him on a street […]

In the beginning it took me awhile before it sunk in just how absurdly busy Jack was with everyone and everything that was SOFREP. I was a sucker to the fact that every time I sent Jack a FB IM he fired right back, and not in grunts, but full-up expounded sentences.

Some Raiders are arguing that the dive bubble and jump wings that have long distinguished Recon Marines and Raiders alike, should still be good enough for them.

A Delta flight mistakenly landed at Ellsworth air force base in South Dakota instead of Rapid City Regional located 10 miles way. Every pilot probably has a story like this–or at least a really close call. Landing at the wrong airport is certainly not a good thing, but not the worst event in the world. However, it is […]

Delta Force underwent a transformation of sorts, Sacolick said, all aimed at preventing another “Black Hawk Down.”

The Battle of Mogadishu, “revolutionized how we did business,” he said.

In the early morning hours of May 10th, Somali special operations soldiers joined by United States JSOC commandos conducted a direct action raid against an al-Shabaab target in the village of Toratorow, 100 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu within the Lower Shebelle province. Around 3:00 am local time – residents witnessed two American helicopters, most likely […]