Navy SEALs

Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens won his Republican primary race for governor of Missouri on April 2, 2016, beating out three other candidates.

Once a CCT gets his JTAC rating, he is usually deemed fit to grab a spot on the next flight out to bad guy land. That could happen right away, or it could take another year of honing his skills and helping teach the new guys before a slot opens up.

Funding is provided by the United States to field up to 30,000 ALP. Current strength (mid-2016) is at about 29,000.

What cannot be accepted, though, is when a trainee is clearly struggling, being dunked under water by instructors, and then that struggling trainee begins to turn cyanotic — purple and blue — due to lack of oxygen caused by drowning.

Military working dogs have been a part of our military dating back to the first World Wars. Fast forward to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and K9’s have become even more popular. The selection and training these dogs go through can sometimes be just as grueling as the selection and training their handlers go through. […]

Telling this story gives me pause, because Jim Janos is now known as “Jesse Ventura,” former professional wrestler and former governor of Minnesota.

Norris refused to abandon the downed pilots, even after initial failure, and went behind enemy lines over and over again, using daring, subterfuge, and ingenuity to execute his mission.

In Silicon Valley, where rapid expansion plans for businesses abound, companies are desperate to hire managers who can lead small teams, make quick decisions, adapt easily to change, and stay calm in the face of stressful situations. It turns out there’s a group of people trained for those exact purposes: the soldiers and sailors in […]

Watch as Jessica Buchanan, a US aid worker, recounts being rescued by Navy SEALs after being held hostage by Somali pirates for 93 days. 

That is where I think the Intercept article is flawed. While the article did address the discrepancy between Kyle’s DD214 and his personnel record, they did so in a cursory, shallow way.

Check out this book excerpt from “By Honor Bound.” Part one recalls the heroic and courageous acts of Tom Norris as he saved downed airmen.

I’ve always loved aviation, I think it started when I was a kid. Star Wars X-wing fighters, then the space ships of Buck Rogers, and of course, Battlestar Galactica (the original). I couldn’t get enough. As a kid I wanted to go to one of the service academies but, having left home at sixteen with […]