SEAL Team 6 and a Man Left for Dead: A Grainy Picture of Valor

Britt Slabinski could hear the bullets ricochet off the rocks in the darkness. It was the first firefight for his six-man reconnaissance unit from SEAL Team 6, and it was outnumbered, outgunned and taking casualties on an Afghan mountaintop. A half-dozen feet or so to his right, John Chapman, an Air Force technical sergeant acting as the […]

A Navy SEAL’s workout when traveling

Question- how do you workout with the schedule you have being on the road and what do you do when you workout? I get this question a lot, always have and bounce between posting some weekly workouts or not, but I generally default to not since there are ample sources that are more directly oriented toward […]

“Homework,” aka life of a combat controller (Part 4)

Since you are the lone AF guy around (although there’s the potential to have a PJ attached with you, and maybe even another controller if you are in a place that supports a lot of operations) you help out as much as possible in order to bond with the team and get shit done.

Ex-Navy SEAL to pay feds $6.6 million to settle suit over book on bin Laden raid

WASHINGTON –  The former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Usama bin Laden will pay the government more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department, according to federal court documents. Matt Bissonnette, who wrote “No Easy […]

After the false alarm at JFK, are airports prepared to handle an active shooter?

As our own Brandon Webb deplaned Sunday night and set foot on American soil following a presumably enjoyable Euro-trip, all hell broke loose. Word spread that there was an active shooter, and for all passengers to take cover. According to multiple reports, including Webb’s own account, and a NY Post article that had a couple […]