SDV stands for SEAL Delivery Vehicle. This is a great example of an open ocean insert onboard a US submarine. There are a lot of great things that make this picture stand out. Let’s take a look. First, credit to the H-60 helo crew for getting into a low hover that made for an easy […]
Just south of Mosul, Iraq, is located a military base — currently a U.S. Army facility called the Logistical Support Area (LSA) — that has been alternately controlled by the U.S. military, Islamic State, Iraqi Security Forces, and even NATO, over the course of the past handful of years. The base is currently being used […]
The military is full of professional jargon and SOF is certainly no exception. With the growing interest in Special Operations, I hear a lot of terminologies used to describe us which makes me cringe. The worst part is that some of these terms are thrown around so often that they become an institution in and […]
August 6, 2011, was a black day for the Navy’s SEAL Teams, for the U.S. Special Operations Command writ large, and for the country as a whole. On that day, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter — bearing the call sign “Extortion 17” — and carrying 17 SEALs, five Naval Special Warfare support personnel, three Air Force […]
The SEAL Legacy Foundation produced a tribute video for the its sixth annual benefit and gala held this past Veteran’s Day 2016, which raised money for the SEAL community, including the families of the fallen. The five-minute video includes inspirational text and a picture of each of the 87 individual Navy SEALs who have fallen […]
According to a report in The Hill newspaper, which we first linked here on SOFREP back in September, the Navy SEALs are in the process of procuring a new mini-submersible vehicle to complement (and one day, perhaps replace) their fleet of SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDVs). I thought I would go a little further in depth on […]
It’s Navy SEAL overload this winter, at least on both the big and small screens. As we recently reported here on SOFREP, a new SEAL movie will release on Super Bowl weekend of 2017. It now looks like we can add a SEAL television show to that mix. As reported way back in early 2016, […]
Navy SEALs, the most glorified warriors in the war on Islamic terrorists, are not a political force in America, but unprecedented victories in this year’s elections have put former frogmen on a political beachhead. Fifteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the first wave of former SEAL politicians has arrived. Four secured significant elected offices […]
In an election night that saw Republicans sweep political races in the state of Missouri, all the way up and down the ballot, former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens (pictured above) became became just the THIRD former Team guy to ascend to the office of chief executive of an American state, following in the footsteps of […]
Straight off of the SOFREP entertainment beat today, in news that is sure to enrage all of you out there who are sick and tired of seeing and hearing about U.S. Navy SEALs all throughout the media — excluding on this website, of course — it was reported on the cinema-focused website deadline.com recently that […]
A Leesburgh, Virginia-based former Navy SEAL, Brian Hoke, was killed in Afghanistan on October 21, 2016, while serving in an unspecified capacity in the war-torn country. The 1996 graduate of the United States Naval Academy was born in Nebraska, raised in South Dakota, and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training class 210 in April, […]
“Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is celebrating one year as a bestselling book on business and life. “Leif and Jocko are the real deal. I’m honored to have served with them. They led SEALs in the fight through the hell that was the Battle of Ramadi. […]
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