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The Pic of the Day: High-Angle Rescue training the Special Forces way

Members of 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conduct high angle rescue training on February 27, 2020, in Panama. The Soldiers were practicing how to tie knots and lift a litter up a cliff. These Green Berets are assigned to a Mountain Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA). New Special Forces operators get assigned to one […]

Learn to live and thrive like a Navy SEAL

Across the ages, every great society has celebrated and revered a great warrior tradition and passed on the stories of these heroes in folklore. We can look back to the Spartans, Roman legions, Vikings, medieval Knights, Samurai, or Aztecs, and each time we will find that a strong warrior class coincided with a strong nation. […]

Army SF general & Delta Force operator turns pizza delivery man

Some may know Major General John Brennan, aka “Bam Bam,” as the badass Delta Force operator who commanded the raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. In 2019, Bam Bam was christened the Commanding General of the 1st Special Forces Command (SFC), making him the Green Beret of all Green Berets. 1st […]

How the Coronavirus is affecting Special Operations training and selection courses

The Coronavirus pandemic has forced Special Operations units to improvise when it comes to their training and selection programs. The Naval Special Warfare Command (WARCOM) has suspended a number of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) and Basic Crewman Training (BCT) classes; the former course is the first major hurdle to those aspiring to become Navy SEALs, […]

Watch: Community Q&A with Green Beret and SOFREP writer Steve Balestrieri

On March 25, 2020, Green Beret and SOFREP fan-favorite writer, Steve Balestrieri, hosted a live Q&A with the SOFREP online community. Steve served as a Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. In addition to writing for SOFREP, he covers the NFL for PatsFans.com. His work is also regularly featured […]

Combat Diver Foundation: Preserving the heritage of combat divers

The Combat Diver Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to preserving the history of the Combat Diver community. Though the foundation’s story began with a recognition that the class plaques at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School in Key West were under threat by the ravages of time and salt air, CDF’s vision […]

Preparing the Special Forces operator for the Unconventional Warfare environment

The task of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course is identifying the candidates who are suitable for Special Forces training. And two of the primary functions of Special Forces are UW (Unconventional Warfare) and FID (Foreign Internal Defense). It is important that the schools don’t lose sight of that fact as SOF (Special Operations […]

Battle of Mirbat: The near Alamo of the Special Air Service

You can read part four here.  July 19, 1972 The small fishing village was still dozing under the monsoon’s early morning mist. A half-mile to the north, behind a small hill, 250 adoo advanced in silence. No sound came from their cloth-muffled Chinese webbing. Their brand-new Russian AK-47s were well-oiled, their RPGs and 12.7mm heavy […]

Pentagon identifies fallen Special Forces team members

Editor’s note: Please consider supporting the families of the fallen. You can support Sgt. Rodriguez’s family by donating here; and you can support Sgt. Gutierrez’s family by donating here.   On Saturday, a Special Forces team was ambushed in Afghanistan by a rogue Afghan policeman. Two American commandos were killed and six wounded. The Department […]

Update: How the Special Forces team was ambushed in Afghanistan

Update: The Department of Defence has published the names of the two KIAs. Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, the senior communications sergeant (18E) on the ODA, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, a SOT-A soldier, were killed during the incident.    Yesterday, a Special Forces team was ambushed in Afghanistan by a rogue […]