Photo of the Day: Airman 1st Class Seth Elich Tactical Air Control Party Specialist

Tactical Air Control Party Specialists are some amazing people doing an amazing mission. If a picture says a 1000 words lets just leave this to your imagination as to what you see. Learn More About the Tactical Air Control Party Specialist mission…watch below! Calling in air and ground strikes all while embedded with teams like the […]

Operation Red Wings II: Lone Survivor recovery operation (Part I)

I sat down with a former Ranger medic from 3rd Ranger Battalion for a few hours to talk about the massive rescue and recovery operation following Operation Red Wings. Doc’s platoon was alerted and deployed to Afghanistan within 18 hours. SOFREP: What was going through your head when you first got the page to deploy […]

Claymore: World’s most famous mine?

The Claymore is perhaps the most famous mine of the latter half of the 20th century.  Making a name for itself during the Vietnam War, it was used to great effect by US forces to repel assaults and initiate ambushes. Over the years, allies and enemies took notice, and it has spawned many copies while […]

Tora Bora, why we didn’t get Bin Laden

Tora Bora. We didn’t get Bin Laden because we couldn’t. WHAT!!! I thought we didn’t get Bin Laden because we mistakenly trusted the Afghans to do what they had promised, and we ignored very competent men on the ground who wanted to commit available US forces to the rear of Tora Bora to block Bin […]

Former Navy SEAL Bob Harward seen as likely pick to succeed Flynn

We wrote about former two-time deputy to James Mattis, retired Navy Vice Admiral (SEAL) Robert S. Harward, here on SOFREP back in early February.  At the time, this author and others assumed that Harward might be tapped for a position within Secretary of Defense Mattis’ Pentagon, as an undersecretary of defense perhaps. It seems instead that […]

Will the Glock 19 work for the Navy SEALs?

Naval Special Warfare Command made a decision to add the Glock 19  to the available inventory of the SEAL Teams. They will slowly begin to phase out the Sig P226 and replace those with the Glock 19. There is nothing wrong with the Sig P226. It has served the Teams for many years and is […]

The Navy SEALs lose a legend: Dick Lyon, first SEAL Admiral

Retired Rear Admiral (SEAL) Richard “Dick” Lyon, called an “icon and legend” within the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community by the current commander of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC), Rear Admiral (SEAL) Tim Szymanski, passed away on February 3, 2017.  Lyon was 93 and passed after a short illness.  He is survived by his widow […]

Navy SEAL Bob Harward: One of SecDef Mattis’ most trusted deputies

There I was, no shit, on the very last day of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, in a state of indescribable euphoria that my six-month voyage through hell was about to come to an end.  My 26 classmates and I, out of over 110 who started in the class, including the only two enlisted men […]

February 2nd marks four years since the death of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle

On this day, February 2, 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was murdered while on a Texas gun range south of Ft. Worth with his friend Chad Littlefield.  The killer of the two men was a former Marine whom they were trying to help overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  The Marine, Eddie Ray Routh, has […]