SEALs

If you think being a Navy SEAL is tough, try cutting into one human being and successfully removing another without doing harm to either one.

Check out two videos from SOFREP’s resident physician, Dr. Bob Adams. For good measure I’ve thrown in a mystery photo as well.

American citizens are trapped far from home in Sudan and Afghanistan, and our government is not doing enough to see them return home safely.

For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US’s clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.

A United States Navy SEAL demonstrates winter warfare capabilities during a training exercise in December of 2014 at Mammoth Lakes, California.

SEAL Team One commanding officer Robert “Bobby” Ramirez was found dead in his San Diego area home on the nineteenth of December at forty-seven. Naval Special Warfare Command officials have announced in a statement that there is no suspicion of foul play in the high-profile SEAL’s death. However, an investigation by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department remains ongoing.

The death of Seaman Kyle Mullins in BUD/S training to become a navy SEAL has the New York Times claiming the training program harbors a culture of brutality, cheating and drugs. SOFREP looks at the evidence of these claims and draws a very different conclusion.

In the fast and flashy world of bustling America, we sometimes forget how our homegrown heroes live their lives. Today, we’ll show you the inspiring dedication of Navy’s Nick O’Sullivan.

I never knew the men who died on June 28th, 2005 as part of Operation Red Wings, but their loss still moved me greatly. At the time, it was the greatest one-day loss of life in the special operations community. It’s hard to fathom that was 17 years ago today.

Navy SEAL and Raising Men author Eric Davis talks about a lesson he learned in hand-to-hand combat training about violent aggression not being the solution to every problem you might encounter in life.

Basic Training Command at the Naval Special Warfare Center is also known as “Pre-BUDs” and screens applicants for suitability for further training as Navy SEALs and for the Special Warfare Combatant Crewman(SWCC) programs. It now has female instructors as part of the cadre.

Former Navy SEAL and officer Kaj Larsen tells us the recent death of a sailor at Navy SEALs Bud/s training with the hospitalization of another following Hell Week reminds us of an important lesson about the economic theory behind brutally this tough training and why it has to be in order to be cost-effective in terms of human lives.