Naval Special Warfare Command

Navy ousts top leaders, Kim Jong Un honors troops killed in Ukraine. It’s Saturday, August 23, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

In austere environments medics have to be very capable. And the Naval Special Warfare Command ensures it has the most capable.

In a historic first a female operator has passed the arduous Naval Special Warfare Training. Congratulations to the operator!

After months of investigation, the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has finished its comprehensive review into the professionalism and ethical issues in the Special Operations community. The 69-page report found that Special Operations units are too focused on being lethal on the battlefield and deploy as much as possible. As a consequence, what might appear […]

Members assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group TWO conduct military land warfare operations in the United States. U.S. Navy SEALs engage in a continuous training cycle to improve and further specialize skills needed to conduct missions from sea, air and land.

A proposed expansion of the SEAL Teams has been put on hold by the Navy leadership over concerns that it could jeopardize the operational effectiveness of the Navy’s elite. Senior Navy leaders believe that the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC) isn’t ready to withstand an expansion — that is, a healthy productive expansion — since […]

Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Eddie Gallagher is accusing the Navy SEAL leadership of disrespecting President Trump and of being on a revenge rampage against him. Chief Gallagher, who was accused of war crimes but found innocent, was restored to his rank after a White House intervention. Now he has filed a complaint to the […]

Two senior Navy SEALs who were fired earlier on September are striking back at their leadership. Commander Edward Mason, the former officer in command of SEAL Team 7, and Command Master Chief Hugh Spangler, the senior enlisted leader of SEAL Team 7, have filed a complaint to the Department of Defence’s Inspector General (IG) against […]

Members assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group TWO conduct military air operations in the United States. U.S. Navy SEALs engage in a continuous training cycle to improve and further specialize skills needed to conduct missions from sea, air and land. Naval Special Warfare Group TWO (NSWG-2), located in Little Creek, VA, is one of the […]

As the U.S. Special Operations community is battered by scandal after scandal of misconduct and unprofessionalism, its leadership has been brainstorming solutions to this quandary. The Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC), from which rank’s most of the scandals have come, has already initiated a back-the-basics directive to be adhered by its subordinate Navy SEAL Teams. […]

Although one of the five core special forces truths is that humans are more important than hardware, it’s always better to have top-shelf equipment. Navy SEALs, Green Berets, and Marine Raiders are all elite in their training and capabilities, but better gear makes them even more effective on the battlefield. The American technological preponderance of […]

As the Pentagon shifts its gaze from low-intensity conflicts to nation-level adversaries, the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is following suit, and the Navy SEAL teams are eager to prove their strategic utility in the rediscovered domain. SOCOM and the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC) are focusing their efforts on two underwater craft: a Shallow Water […]