Special Forces

Real leaders take care of their people; denying back pay while politicians trade blame is a dereliction that should cost those in power, not the men and women who serve.

Readying yourself for a survival situation begins in your mind; begin with these tips from a Special Forces officer and survival expert.

Where we lived with villagers and tied bottom up security to district and provincial governance, VSO and ALP held ground the centralized model could not, and when support was cut the Taliban wasted no time reclaiming the countryside.

From where I sit, you don’t win trust by lecturing warfighters; until Pete Hegseth owns his gaps, listens hard, and speaks candidly with the President and the flag officers, he’ll keep driving the people he must persuade into polite, passive resistance.

I succeeded in Professional Military Education by treating it as an opportunity and a responsibility—checking my ego, preparing before day one, doing the reading, organizing relentlessly, and using every spare minute to learn for the soldiers who would depend on me.

Appeasing dictators is not a strategy for peace—it is an open invitation for tyranny to spread unchecked across the globe.

Grammar matters and can even piss off Special Forces guys. We just don’t like having or hearing our unit’s name misused, borrowed, or stolen.

At Selection, your age won’t carry your ruck or find your points—your grit, your prep, and your ability to bleed with the team will.

They wouldn’t have traded places with anybody, for anything—and that tells you everything you need to know.

Mines don’t care if the war is over—they wait, hidden and patient, to turn a child’s step or a farmer’s plow into another casualty long after the ceasefire is signed.

The mob may be screaming for blood, but last I checked, we still valued guts, service, and the kind of flawed honesty that beats silence seven days a week.

You don’t have to look like a Marvel superhero to make it—just show up, shut up, carry your ruck, and don’t quit, no matter how much the suck tries to make you tap out.