The Pic of the Day: US Women’s Water Polo team getting a taste of SEAL training

Members of the U.S. Women’s National Water Polo Team work out on the beach at Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif., Nov. 6. The team’s visit was an opportunity for its Olympic-caliber athletes to learn from the NSW Basic Training Command staff about NSW and experience hands-on how Navy SEALs build physically and […]

Brothers in arms: SOCOM recognizes fallen Nigerien soldiers

In an act of recognition and meaning, the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) awarded six medals to Nigerien soldiers who fought alongside the American Special Forces operators during the Niger Ambush. The deadly incident took place on October 4, 2017, near the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger (that’s why the event is often called the […]

The Pic of the Day: Meet Thor, Navy SEAL K-9 and all around badass

Thor, right, one of retired Navy SEAL Trevor Maroshek’s canine-partners, sits next to a bronze statue honoring military working dogs and their handlers in Veterans Park. Thor is one of Chopper’s offspring. Chopper is credited with saving American forces from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with Maroshek.

The Pic of the Day: Meet the female honorary Navy SEAL

Cmdr. Keith Marinics (left), commanding officer, Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Basic Training Command, and Capt. Bart Randall, commodore, NSW Center, present Andi Valaitis, from Willoughby, Ohio, an “Honorary Frogman” certificate, after living her dream of training with the men and women of NSW. Components of NSW Command teamed with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to allow Valaitis […]

The Pic of the Day: The first ever Special Reconnaissance course

A U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operator fires his weapon during long-range weapons training as part of a beta Special Reconnaissance training course near Hurlburt Field, Florida, Sept. 20, 2019. The Special Tactics Training Squadron conducted the course to identify specific core tasks required for each skill level of the new SR career field. Special […]

The Video of the Week: The path to becoming a Ranger comms guy

Past and present Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment describe and demonstrate what it is like to be a Ranger Communicator while serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment. As with every other Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) in the Regiment, comms guys must attend and complete the arduous Ranger Selection and Assessment Program (RASP). The Regiment […]

The Pic of the Day: Air Commandos remembering their own

Airmen and family members with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron and the 31st Rescue Squadron conducted a five-mile memorial ruck march in honor of two fallen pararescuemen. United States Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sean Barton, from the 320th STS, and Tech. Sgt. Peter Kraines, from the 24th Special Operations Wing, died from injuries sustained in training […]

Messing with the brain: Psychological Operations against ISIS

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), is dead. He chose suicide over capture or death at the hands of the Delta operators and the Rangers. His death, however, doesn’t spell the end of the threat posed by the terrorist organization. ISIS might have lost huge swaths of land and be a […]