Tag: Special Forces

Women are set to attend SOF training and join the force as operators, but the system may not be prepared to receive them.

As a new writer to the site, with an extensive, varied, and loyal audience I have to introduce myself. I am Norwood, and I turned thirty last April. That being said, I left the military last August and am completely out of service after eight years of active duty. I’m sure those will prove to […]

Female candidates are allowed to attend Special Forces selection. But many are forced to wait for indeterminate periods of time before attending.

U.S. and British forces could have been killed at the border garrison hardened opposition at the Pentagon and the CIA to accommodating the Russians.

Pro tip, men: Leave the prostitutes back at the hotel room. Under no circumstances should you allow them to escort you to the airport. Yes, you may think you look cool and all swaggy with your arm-candy, but the secret is out at that point.

Soldiers currently travel in open craft underwater, which are uncomfortable for long distances.

The Army selection panel had reviewed the application packets of seven female officers. Of those, two were approved for the SFAS class, he said.

Gray Matter Splatter is the 4th book in the series about Deckard who is a former CIA para-military officer turned mercenary but it is written so that anyone can pick up the book and start right here without having to read the three previous books. However, SOFREP Team Room members can read the previous Deckard novel right here on the website for free.

Sandwiched between ISIS held and Kurdish held Syria, lays a city under siege.  Manbij is a medium sized city south of Kobani and North West of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa.  While many civilians have already fled the city, thousands more are trapped inside.  With coalition airstrikes backing up the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]

Because of the nature of the deployment, nearly all of us dropped as low in weight as our bodies could handle. When I returned, THOR3 was an incredibly useful tool to rebuild and capitalize on the physical strengths I brought back with me.

During the 1980s, the South African Recces had a lion for an official mascot who was even made an honorary Recce.

The system is meant to manage the force’s professional lives. In the end, many of the trackers get lost because the search engine they use to store the old trackers is very slow. As a result, trackers are created to track the trackers that aren’t acceptable.