Special Forces

“You were either going to die or get shot all to hell,” Billy Waugh said. “Everyone in the outfit was wounded once, twice, three times.”

The Malayan Emergency proved that a counterinsurgency operation (COIN) could succeed if approached cleverly and co-owned by the locals.

While he was a more than capable Green Beret, Richard Flaherty — who was just 4 feet, 9 inches tall — had to fight just to join the Army.

Successfully performing blood transfusions on the battlefield could stop most of the preventable combat deaths.

The training death of the Special Forces soldier highlights that the men and women who serve our country constantly put their lives at risk for our sake.

Some war stories are about gunfights and HALO jumps. But the best ones involve copious amounts of contraband and a few knuckleheads.

Training accidents are an unfortunate reality in the high-risk training that special operations troops undergo in order to be the best.

“I cannot be more proud of him; he represents the Special Forces Regiment and the U.S. Army with extreme selflessness and honor,” the commanding officer of Ian Tyrell said.

Our primary choice for a secondary (backup) firearm was the M-1911 .45 caliber blazer, legacy of the venerable John Moses Browning.

The British Ranger Regiment will be able to operate in complex, high-threat environments, taking on some tasks traditionally done by special forces.

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The actions of William Doyle contributed to 173 enemies killed and 60 more wounded while saving “countless” partner forces.