Navy SEALs

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.

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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.

“My class started with 150 students,” a former SEAL officer said. “At the end of Hell Week, only 24 were there, some of them pretty beat up.”

The legacy of John Zinn is his ability to compel people to rally around a vision and achieve the impossible, in the military and in life.

John Zinn was always motivated by his dreams. Some of those dreams were bigger than the Navy SEALs, but they never quite clicked for him.