Operation Red Wings Day 7: July 4

The Rangers had been scouring the mountains for over a week. The heat and altitude had taken its toll, with more than one Ranger having to be medevaced as a heat casualty, and many more needing to use IVs to recover the fluids they had lost hiking over the mountains with full combat loads. One […]

Operation Red Wings: Author’s Note

This account is as accurate as I could make it, 7000 miles away and 8 years after the fact. Sources differed in their recollections, and particularly timelines. Not having been there, I have had to piece together the story as best I could. There has been a great deal of controversy about Marcus Luttrell’s account […]

A Look At “Operation Red Wings”

The latest SOFREP ebook, Operation Red Wings, is now available for pre-order on Amazon here and iTunes here. This was a short-fuse project.  Charlie hit me up last month and asked if I could do it in 30 days.  I sat down, had a long talk with Dan Lake, the CRO (Combat Rescue Officer) in the […]