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We practiced chopping through heavy steel vault doors and several feet of reinforced concrete wall — and doing it all while down in bottomless holes!

Our primary choice for a secondary (backup) firearm was the M-1911 .45 caliber blazer, legacy of the venerable John Moses Browning.

Within a few smacks on the roof tack with the bottom edge of the can it burst, completely engulfing his head and face.

Editor’s Note: Geo’s memoir, Brothers of the Cloth, a true account of special mission unit soldiers, is now available for pre-order. You can purchase it here.  “THERE’S A FREAKIN’ FENCE OUT THERE. A CHAIN-LINK FENCE!” came the holler from our man in the doorway of the building we were in. That fence was blocking our […]

Editor’s Note: Geo’s memoir, Brothers of the Cloth, a true account of special mission unit soldiers, is now available for pre-order. You can purchase it here.  No shite, there I was. That is how this sort of story typically unfolds. There’s no moral to it; no special message. Perhaps the message is that when it […]

A rare wordsmith, Geo is a master of the English language. But it takes more than that to create a compelling memoir, especially one so heavily focused on others.

In this exclusive interview, Delta Force veteran Tom Satterly bring us inside the covert unit and rips the mask off loss, trauma and healing.

Deep behind enemy lines, US and British Delta Force and SAS special operators hunted down Iraqi scud missiles during Operation Desert Storm.

It was approaching Christmas Afghanistan 2001, and I was working to deliver some Holiday cheer to Al Qaeda with the guys from SEAL TEAM 3.

Who has more freedom of movement in a combat zone: a highly trained and well-resourced Special Operations fighter, or an untrained volunteer working for a cash-strapped religious non-governmental organization (NGO)? In the author’s opinion and experience, the answer is the NGO worker — and by a long shot. The reason for this predominantly boils down […]

General Scott Miller, the commanding officer of U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and former Delta Force operator, and Afghan Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid meet with Coalition & Afghan National Security Forces leaders in northern Afghanistan to discuss security operations, including the ongoing levels of Taliban violence. 

You can read part II here. Chalks-02 and -03 were touched down with their assaulters already collapsing on Mullah Omar’s walled compound, where they quickly blew a large breach. Chalk-04 with the Falcon and his men had already slammed into the side of a mountain trying to evade ground fire en route to Gecko. Then […]