SEAL Team Six Military Drama To Air On History Channel

A new History channel series focusing on SEAL Team Six is slated to begin filming in Wilmington, NC. Fortunately the series will have former Navy SEAL, Mitchell Hall, as a technical advisor. It has yet to be seen whether the accuracy of television drama will be more along the lines of “Zero Dark Thirty” or […]

An Operator’s Guide to Leadership, (Part 2)

How many of you have been in that team that we have fought or would have fought tooth and nail to stay in? You know, the team that you just cannot live without. The one that you look forward to going to work with every morning, where things just smooth seamlessly and everyone gets along. […]

Opinion: The U.S. Needs a New Hostage Rescue Policy

Months ago, the American public found out that the Obama administration ordered a full review of our current hostage rescue policy. We’re still waiting on the findings. I have never agreed with our hostage rescue policy; whether that’s due to its impracticality or my own callousness and low sympathy is debatable. To change the policy we must first clearly […]

Our Fallen Heroes: Robert Reeves

“Extortion 17” is a name etched in our minds as one of the worst losses our military has ever experienced. Thirty Americans perished in the blink of an eye, half of which comprised an entire ‘troop’ from SEAL Team 6’s Gold Squadron. Senior Chief Robert James Reeves was one of those Americans. Born in Louisiana […]

A Navy SEAL’s Review of “Captain Phillips” The Movie & Some Left Out Secrets

In April 2009 four Somali pirates took down a US flagged vessel, the Maersk Alabama. The take-down got messy, and resulted in the ship’s captain taken hostage aboard one of the Maersk’s life boats. On April 12th, the hostage situation ended when SEAL snipers (from DEVGRU) flawlessly executed three pirates with simultaneous shots in the […]

How would our Special Operations Forces perform in North Korea?

With all the hype in regards to North Korea, it’s only necessary to have a discussion about how our special operations forces (SOF) would perform in the region if things actually did go south. While my background is specifically within the Army Special Operations Command, I can shed some light as to how our SOF units would […]

SOFREP’s 2012 Greatest Hits #4: No Easy Day…

Jack was first to strike when the controversial book “No Easy Day” broke headlines. The author Matt Bissonette himself called me up to explain things from his perspective. I personally don’t have anything against Matt but my opinion is that his timing was poor, and he’s since left a trail of bodies and upset folks, […]