green berets

Special Operators from the Brazilian Army line up to showcase some of their equipment and capabilities to U.S. delegates participating in army-to-army staff talks between the two countries on July 25, 2017.

SF troops come from humble and austere beginnings. The original Special Forces troops were formed on Smoke Bomb Hill in 1952. Special Forces were created as former members of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) were assigned with paratroopers and Rangers, with a sprinkling of former members of the Army’s 1st Special Service Force, to […]

She fought through every challenge the Q Course threw at her, proving that grit, skill, and determination—not gender—are what earn the coveted Green Beret.

“How the hell am I going to fill 1,000 sandbags, and how did I get myself into this mess?” I thought. Sometimes life throws curveballs at you and you have to do your best to sit back in the box and hit them the opposite way. In doing so, you can make the most out […]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley recorded a short video that aired soon after the General appeared at a church with President Donald Trump that had just been cleared of protestors. In the video, he called his presence at the church “a mistake.” Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper had joined the president […]

Special Forces have a very tight select group of members and it isn’t often that an outsider is accepted as one of their own. Very few have been given the honor of becoming an honorary Green Beret. A German woodcarver, who has been supporting the members of the 10th Special Forces Group in Europe for […]

Green Berets of 10th and 19th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) adjust M224 60mm mortar systems during a live-fire on Fort Carson. Special Forces operators refresh themselves on a wide variety of domestic and foreign weapons platforms to stay ready and to train new team members who are unfamiliar with the weapons.

As the civil unrest caused by the death of an African-American man by a police officer continues to rock the country, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis penned a missive against President Trump. “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to […]

Soldiers assigned to the 7th SFG(A) conducts dynamic rifle and pistol training in preparation for the Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat. SFAUC is a challenging shooting course within the SF regiment that forges lethality and maintains combat readiness within 7th SFG(A).

The United States is sending one of the Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB) to Colombia to teach, advise, and assist Colombian counternarcotics forces as the country once again has seen a rise in the cultivation of illegal narcotics.  What makes this deployment so noteworthy is that the SFABs will be working for the first time […]

In the spring of 1991, in the aftermath of the defeat of the Iraqi military forces in the Gulf War (Desert Storm), a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions took place. Once the truce was signed by the Iraqi military representatives and the Coalition nations led by the United States, the allies quickly looked to exit […]

According to sources first referenced by the New York Times, senior military officials are going to brief President Trump, in the very near future, on several possible timelines for completely withdrawing American military forces from Afghanistan. The military is looking at one proposal, which is thought to be the president’s wish, for a complete withdrawal […]