Tag: Navy SEALs

The first Gulf War was a textbook conventional war, but it featured an array special-operations missions that helped secure victory.

Navy SEAL Hell Week is grueling, but training on “The Rock” is the one of the toughest hurdles to becoming a SEAL.

There’s a big difference when you’re fighting to kill or just fighting; SEALs are taught that every fight is a fight to the finish, no tap outs, no time outs, no mercy.

MACV-SOG was deactivated as the Vietnam War ended, but the secretive group’s legacy lives on with Joint Special Operations Command.

Navy SEAL training is widely known as one of the most grueling in the world, but it’s the instructors who assess and shape the future SEALs.

Harry Beal, the first Navy SEAL, died on January 26th at the age of ninety. His life — and service — is remembered on the pages of SOFREP.

In his new book, Never Enough, former Navy SEAL Mike Hayes explores the excellence that comes from being pushed to your max.

This Week on SOFREP: A military-wide search for extremism, China’s Cold War games, and insights into new findings about COVID-19 testing.

It was a mission gone bad, the kind where heroes die and are later written about, and some Hollywood profiteer makes a killing on the movie.

In the middle of the second night there, we were told to strip naked. We stayed that way while they hosed us down with freezing cold water…

This was my first exposure to that aspect of military planning we fondly call FUBAR: fucked up beyond all repair.

This week on SOFREP: Biden’s military agenda, China’s saber rattling, and a first-hand account of the secret CIA mission to find bin Laden.