Tag: Green Beret

A video recently released by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), the group responsible for the ambush on October 4th, shows U.S.-made weapons. The video is titled Punishments of Traitors and features brutal executions, accompanied by nasheeds (Islamic ballads). In the video, Abdelhakim al-Sahrawi, the Emir of Gourma for ISGS, can be seen […]

On Tuesday, an RG33 MRAP vehicle was struck by an IED in Ghazi, Afghanistan. Eye witnesses reported that the blast was so large that the vehicle was thrown approximately fifty meters. An RG33 MRAP weighs somewhere between 28 to 33 tons, depending on the variant of the vehicle being driven. Killed in the blast were […]

Although the U.S. Army officially opened special operations roles to females back in 2016, thus far, not one of the 24 female soldiers who have attempted Special Forces selection have been successful — that is, until now. “Recently, a female successfully completed Special Forces Assessment and Selection and was selected to attend the Special Forces […]

The U.S. Department of Defense is now formally pressing charges against the two Navy SEALs and two MARSOC Marines implicated in the strangulation of Green Beret Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar in Mali. These charges include felony murder, conspiracy, and providing false statements to investigators. The two SEAL Team Six operators being charged have been previously […]

Near the end of September, the brass asked Schaff if he’d mind becoming the One-One, or assistant team leader. The brass wanted to put an overweight Special Forces sergeant from Germany who had a previous tour of duty with a Green Beret A-Team, but no experience in Laos, in the One-Zero slot simply because he […]

A U.S. Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) came under attack today in the Bar-Sanguni area near Kismayo in Somalia. The U.S. Special Forces team was in the process of constructing a new Forward Operating Base (FOB) with a large local partner force when they came under sustained mortar fire and machine gun fire from […]

On Sunday, a 7th Special Forces Group soldier named Derek McKinney was arrested for the alleged murder of his wife Natasha McKinney then on Wednesday a support soldier assigned to the same unit named William Mrozek was arrested for allegedly molesting two girls, ages 7 and 11. McKinney is a Green Beret assigned to Charlie […]

Don’t you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes. It is right, he told himself, not reassuringly, but proudly. I believe in the people and their right to govern themselves as they wish. But you mustn’t believe in killing, […]

The following footage is from the Helmet camera of a Special Forces soldier caught in the infamous ambush in Niger that occurred on October 4th of 2017.

Seldom do I ever do book reviews. There is a cogent reason for that, being I don’t (seldom if ever) read books, and especially not fiction. Why the exception you ask? Simple: I was approached by valiant members of our SF community with the prospect of reading a recent novel by a respectful peer of […]

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, […]

You know the trope found in secret agent films and novels alike: the Special Operator that is fluent in four languages, can track phones, build homemade explosives, is a parkour fanatic, a highly trained driver, is an expert tracker, better hacker, a master of like four variations of martial arts, and of course, is an […]