A former Secret Service Agent describes the President’s security detail

“I have stood here before inside the pouring rain, with the world turning circles running round my brain.” -Words from King of Pain by the Police It is said that part of Sting’s inspiration for the song King of Pain was James Bond, as he wrote the song while he was staying at Ian Fleming’s house in […]

Three SOF phrases that I hate

The military is full of professional jargon and SOF is certainly no exception.  With the growing interest in Special Operations, I hear a lot of terminologies used to describe us which makes me cringe.  The worst part is that some of these terms are thrown around so often that they become an institution in and […]

Delta’s Tom Greer; There but for God’s grace goes a lesser man

(Please understand that at the time of this writing Tom Greer is indeed still living) It is with a profane sorrow that I push this essay to the editor of SOFREP. I seize the opportunity to further a personal agenda of mine. It did truly catch up with me eventually, the pain of the loss […]

Relentless Strike: Delta operators under fire in Iraq

It was still dark when Master Sergeant Don Hollenbaugh heard the call to prayer echoing from a minaret 300 meters to the north. The haunting sound unsettled the Delta operator. “This is not going to be a good day,” he told Staff Sergeant Dan Briggs, a twenty-eight-year-old Delta medic kneeling beside him on a street […]

WATCH: JSOC Operators in Syria, Obama announces 250 more troops to deploy to Rojava

In a scenario eerily reminiscent to US Special Forces deployments to Central America in the 1980’s, Obama announced today that 250 more Special Operations troops would be deployed to Syria to help fight ISIS.  In the 80’s the numbers of Special Forces troops allowed in countries like El Salvador and Nicaragua was capped around 50, […]