The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Military Charities

There are a lot of good military charities out there, but there’s also the bad, and the ugly with questionable, and un-ethical practices. This article focuses on the latter, and should serve as a guide to giving. SOFREP receives a lot of emails with information about charitable organizations. We try and look into them all, […]

How to Identify a Military Fake

How to identify a military fake in a blog, where to begin? This is the story of Cody Sutton of Talladega Alabama, who dropped into SOFREP as one “GySgt. Joseph Preston of 1st Recon Battalion” and tried to con and receive accolades from unsuspecting SOFREP followers. From here on out, I will be referring to […]

Texas ABC News Reporter Busted As Phony SEAL: Bobby Hallmark Jr.

It doesn’t get much better than this folks. You have a phony SEAL reporter writing up another phony SEAL for his heroics (you’ll have the watch the video). What’s this country coming too, thank goodness there’s people like Don to hold these scum bags accountable.  I can only imagine what the good people of Texas […]

Don’t Be a SOF Cyber-Chump

The interwebz is an amazing communications medium that allows us to share information with each other, but at the same time it can function as a disinformation or misinformation clearing house for those who are ignorant or who have an agenda. Misinformation is simply false information spread by people who don’t know any better. Disinformation […]

Phony SEAL of The Week: Memorial Day Look Back

Don continues to put up the good fight in busting the worst of the worst. In this Memorial Day masterpiece, he confronts a guy apparently trained by me as a SEAL sniper killer (6:19)…Too funny, I guess I know my book is doing well when I’m being used as a fake reference. I’d love to […]

Stolen Valor Law II Passes House

A new ‘Stolen Valor’ law was passed Monday in the House of Representatives by a resounding 390 to 3 votes. The law was introduced by Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nevada). To become an official law, it needs to be passed by the Senate and then signed by the President. This law would replace the 2006 Stolen […]

Esquire Duped By Fake UBL “Shooter”?

There are still a couple of big stories coming out of Naval Special Warfare’s WARCOM. First female Navy SEAL? It’s coming, and in a way you’d never expect… One story coming out of Joint Special Operations Command is that the Esquire “shooter” wasn’t the shooter after all. To be clear, many wasn’t the point man […]

How To Spot A Phony Navy SEAL

Special thanks to Don Shipley for keeping up the good fight.  This short clip is a classic display of how these losers operate. Enjoy and have a great weekend. %EMBED2%

1st Amendment Rights More Important Than Scum Bags Like Xavier Alvarez

I’ll be the first to admit that the Stolen Valor Act was poorly written and too broad in that it infringes on our 1st Amendment rights as American citizens. Personally, I’d rather have a slew of scum bag military posers than continue to see our Constitutional rights withered away by career policy makers in Washington.  […]

Ode to the Uber SOF Faker

I was just reading about Scott Thompson, the late CEO of Yahoo’s media sites after getting a tip from Feral Jundi.  Apparently Thompson had lied about having a degree in computer science on his resume.  When the board of directors got wind of it they decided to pull the plug on him.  Good riddance I […]

Stolen Valor & The Scourge of Navy SEAL Imposters: Part 2

You just don’t know for sure in MOST cases unless you’ve been to BUD/S and served in the Teams… HOW DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE? The ONLY 100% way to ever know for sure if someone was a SEAL or not is to verify them through a SPECWAR Insider, a SEAL Verifier like myself or […]

The Scourge of Navy SEAL Imposters: Part One

THE SCOURGE OF NAVY SEAL IMPOSTERS By Special Guest Contributor and SEAL Teammate Don Shipley of Extreme SEAL Experience. “Give’em Hell Don…”-Brandon Since the beginning of Naval Special Warfare in early 1943, there have been roughly 17,600 men who completed training of some sort and served with the Naval Special Warfare Teams (including the Underwater […]