Special Forces

This shot shows a Delta team in the Pakastini Stadium in Mogadishu just after completing the “Mogadishu Mile.”

Former Delta operator George Hand talks about what motivated him to join the greatest fighting force on Earth.

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

Billy Waugh, a legend in the special operations community, has died at the age of 93.

Iraqi Special Forces fighters, Qwat al-Khasah, are shown here at Camp Taji, Iraq, in 2020 during a training drill to simulate how they would properly react to enemy contact.

As global power dynamics change, so does the role of American Special Operations Forces. SOCOM is tasked with keeping up with those changes to keep SOF relevant and effective. Presented here is part of their plan to do just that.

Ouassa, Benin — Special Operations Command Africa forces partnered with the Beninese Army during a Joint Combined Exchange Training that concluded Sept. 9, 2022, in Ouassa, Benin. US Army Green Berets assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) collaborated with the Beninese Army’s 1st Commando Parachute Battalion members to hone tactical and operational skills. […]

Our friends with the Kraken Special Forces unit in Ukraine are at it again. Watch as they target and destroy a building the Russians were using as their local headquarters.

The war in Ukraine is of a highly fluid nature and is a hybrid sort of conflict mixing conventional and special operations forces on the same battlefield. There are some lessons there for SOCOM which they are surely paying attention to.

Dugway Proving Ground isn’t going to be an international tourist destination anytime soon. Not unless you like an intensely hot environment with lots and lots of nothing punctuated here and there with deadly chemical weapons and biological agents. It is, however, the perfect place for testing all kinds of cool new military gear. Members of […]

For Outstanding Valor and Courage: The Roy Benavidez Story “If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it.” — Ronald Reagan, February 24th, 1981, during the Medal of Honor speech for Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez Selfless Service On a trip through dense jungle undergrowth to recover more wounded, […]

Eight US Army Special Forces (SF) soldiers have been issued memoranda of reprimand in the 2018 death of an Afghan commando who perpetrated a Green on Blue attack which resulted in the death of a Coalition soldier.