Father of fallen Navy SEAL pays tribute to his son

According to radio station KJO 105.5, based in Maryville, Missouri, the father of fallen Navy SEAL Chief Special Warfare Operator Mark T. Carter has written a book meant to honor his deceased son, and to benefit the Navy SEAL Foundation, a non-profit that provides immediate and ongoing support and assistance to members of the Naval […]

Navy SEALs facing ‘combat saturation’ says retired officer

In a prescient and poignant piece of commentary published on June 16th, 2017, in the San Diego Union-Tribune, retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer Ed Hiner described the toll that 16 years of continuous wartime deployments have taken on the Navy’s SEAL community.  It is a devastating and cautionary picture he paints. Hiner describes the situation […]

Interview with Brandon Webb: ‘Harry Potter and James Bond are really snipers’

Below, Brandon Webb former Navy SEAL turned Media CEO was interviewed by Laura Steward.- Desiree Huitt, Managing Editor Brandon Webb – Harry Potter is a sniper? Bet you didn’t realize Harry Potter is a sniper. If you read my guest’s latest book with John David Mann, “The Killing School: Inside The World’s Deadliest Sniper Program,” […]

Navy identifies SEAL killed in Memorial Day parachute malfunction

The U.S. Navy last week identified the SEAL killed over Memorial Day weekend as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class (SO1) Remington J. Peters, 27, of Grand Junction, Colorado.  SO1 Peters was a member of the Navy’s parachute demonstration team, “The Leap Frogs,” and was jumping as part of Fleet Week in New York City when he […]

Navy SEAL Dies in Parachuting Accident Over Hudson River

A member of the US Navy’s parachute team, the “Leap Frogs” consisting of Navy SEALs died on Sunday afternoon after his parachute failed to deploy adequately. This tragedy struck just after noon on the Hudson River during a Fleet Week demonstration jump in front of thousands of spectators. The Navy has not yet identified the […]

Navy SEAL and member of the Leap Frogs dies in parachute accident

The Navy SEAL community and the wider U.S. Navy is heartbroken this Memorial Day weekend to have lost another one of our own.  As reported by WABC New Jersey and the Associated Press, an as-yet-unidentified Navy SEAL died on May 28th when his parachute failed to open during a demonstration jump over the Hudson River, […]

U.S. Special Operations Forces kill 7 AQAP militants in Yemen Raid

According to a press release provided by U.S Central Command, American forces conducted a raid on an Al Qaeda compound on the Arabian Peninsula on Tuesday.  Initial reports indicate that the raid was a success, resulting in the death of seven terrorist combatants with no reports of U.S. casualties released thus far. The raid reportedly […]

Here’s the technique Navy SEALs use to swim for miles without getting tired

With the beginning of summer, pools all over the US are opening for recreational swimming — but in the Navy, recruits are getting ready for the brutal Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, or BUD/S, that will turn some of them into Navy SEALs. In the SEALs, where recruits of the elite special operations unit are pushed […]

Special Operations Chief: ‘We are not a panacea’

The head of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), General Raymond “Tony” Thomas III, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 4, 2017, and informed lawmakers and the public that the country’s elite special operations forces could not solve all of the world’s problems. “We are not a panacea,” said the Army General, former […]

Watch: Best Selling author and Hurricane CEO Brandon Webb appears on Fox & Friends to discuss changes in counter-terrorism since the death of Osama bin Laden

Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL, best-selling author, and Hurricane Media CEO, appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss how counter-terrorism has changed since Osama bin Laden was killed six years ago. On May 1, 2011 (20:00 UTC) Navy SEALs assaulted a compound in Pakistan in search of their number one target—Osama bin Laden. The well-documented […]

Watch: Navy SEAL CQB Training

This is more of an ‘old school’ video covering some CQB training that SEALs attend. Watching this and seeing the weapons and gear they are using reminds me of the movie Navy SEALs from the early 90’s and the Rogue Warrior series of books. My last deployment in the Marine Corps was a 6 month […]