Tag: Special Forces

Looking at the photos, it seem as if their training was more of a staged photo op for the Saudi special forces.

Watch as members of the 7th Special Forces Group conduct a close-quarters combat training exercise.

A gag order, meant to prevent media coverage of a controversial case involving Green Berets and an Afghan police commander, was recently imposed.

A EuroNews report cites that a remote controlled machine gun has been recovered by Kurdish Special Forces, although the weapon system attached appears to be a Dragunov rifle and not a machine gun. Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] has developed a remote-controlled sniper rifle that cost the lives of many soldiers fighting the savage terror group. Kurdish Special Force […]

The U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria as it looks to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, with direct knowledge of the proposal’s details, declined to disclose the exact increase under consideration. But one of them […]

SFC Halbisengibbs assaulted and fought through a heavily armed Iraqi terrorist stronghold in order to retrieve a high-value target.

A senior commander in Iran’s Army told reporters on Mar. 23 that Special Forces would be deployed as “advisors” to Syria and Iraq. This would mark the first time that Army forces – in this case, commandos and snipers of the Rapid Response Battalions – will have operated outside Iranian borders since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. The Islamic Revolutionary […]

National Congressional Medal of Honor Day on Friday, March 25, is a special memorial day when recipients of the Medal of Honor gather each year at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate their fallen brethren. Among those warriors who have received our nation’s highest award for valor in combat is […]

The Army has issued its rules for opening Special Forces to women as part of several policy revisions affecting the service’s special operations career fields. Announced March 8, the changes apply to enlisted personnel seeking assignments in three specialties: Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations. Special Forces • SF is open to male and female soldiers. […]

HALO involves paratroopers jumping at around 25,000 feet and freefalling down to 3,500 feet.

Watch as U.S. Special Forces train a police SWAT unit called the Tigrees in Honduras.

For the U.S. Military, the challenges of the 21st century require a literal changing of the guard. And according to Adm. Eric Olson (ret.), a former Navy SEAL, the blueprint for the future comes straight from our past