SEALs

Navy special operators showed they can act as the eyes and ears of a carrier strike group, sending intel back to the group’s hard hitters.

From SWCC fast boats to the jungles of South America, these footwear options were handpicked by Special Operators as the best combat boots.

Navy SEAL training is widely known as one of the most grueling in the world, but it’s the instructors who assess and shape the future SEALs.

Harry Beal, the first Navy SEAL, died on January 26th at the age of ninety. His life — and service — is remembered on the pages of SOFREP.

“My class started with 150 students,” a former SEAL officer said. “At the end of Hell Week, only 24 were there, some of them pretty beat up.”

The legacy of John Zinn is his ability to compel people to rally around a vision and achieve the impossible, in the military and in life.

John Zinn was always motivated by his dreams. Some of those dreams were bigger than the Navy SEALs, but they never quite clicked for him.

John Zinn was not the stereotypical Navy SEAL; He looked like your average skinny surf bum. But underneath he had grit and determination.

On top of the sentence, DeDolph was demoted to the rank to E-1, made to forfeit his pay and allowances, and will be dishonorably discharged.

Combat diving is an intrinsic part of all Special Operations capabilities, but it’s bread and butter for the U.S. Navy SEALs.

Finding the best home defense option for you can be a bit daunting. Here’s what our team of Special Operators, SWCCs and SEALs picked and why.

This is what I learned about being a Navy SEAL: it is all about excellence, and about never giving up on yourself.