They forgot the first rule of Special Forces: always look cool. The second rule is to always know where you are and what you are doing. The third rule is that even if you don’t know where you are or what you are doing than you should still try to look cool. -Jack 1. First, […]
Tampa, FL– Forget new gear, weapons, or sophisticated targeting systems. The newest tool coming to combat troops is low-tech: beards. In a report released yesterday, research think-tank Xegis Solutions noted that beards have a direct correlation to combat effectiveness. Jonathon Burns was the lead researcher in the study. “We took 100 soldiers. 25 were Special […]
These MEK goons that the CIA is training on American soil are bad news. JSOC shouldn’t be touching this project with a ten foot barge pole. Read up on Brandon’s opinion piece that follows up on the breaking news from Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. Since the OBL raid there has been lots of […]
A treatise on the supremacy of Weapons over all the other specialties on an Operational Detachment- Alpha By Uncle Jimbo There is a profound distinction between the importance of the Weapons Sergeant and all the other personnel on a Special Forces Team. There are 12 members with a number of different specialties, but aside from […]
My former medic, now an officer and friend, describes it thus, “The death of us has been the creation of a full blown Command, with concomitant layers of official bureaucracy, which has killed a lot of initiative. There is an overbearing burden of risk assessments and pre-approval requirements, by everyone, before anything can get done. […]
Gents, please consider supporting this fundraiser for the Cantrell family. CW2 Eddie Cantrell was a Warrant Officer at 3rd Special Forces Group. He died while charging back into his home that had caught on fire in order to rescue his daughters. All three perished in the fire. Chief Cantrell died a hero by any standard. […]
1st SOW has the MC130, which is their troop carrier aircraft, and which also has the capability to pluck a single individual out of an open field without landing, using a device called the Fulton Recovery System, aka the Skyhook. This gizmo has been around for years. In fact James Bond used it at the […]
“This should have been done 50 years ago,” Brig. Gen Edward M. Reeder, Jr. told an applauding audience at the first Green Beret Foundation gala fundraiser in San Antonio, Texas during the summer. As the guest speaker, the U.S. Army Special Forces Commanding General told stunning stories of incredible valor by today’s Green Berets, the […]
Since last night I’ve been following up on the shooting that occurred on the 15th which left one Special Forces Soldier dead and a police officer injured. This stuff tears us up inside because this story just goes from bad to worse and I suspect that some serious repercussions are coming down the line and […]
A while back a friend asked me what the differences are, between the Special Forces of my day, and this generation of Green Berets. After careful thought I have decided that the spirit is virtually identical, the mission and organization are basically the same, and everything else is a lot different. The spirit of Special […]
Initial information that I’ve gotten is that this 5th Group soldier shot the guy who was cheating with his wife, the police got called in, he shoots one and takes the rest hostage. Clarksville Police Department surrounds the place and fires tear gas into the apartment until he surrenders. Developing… CLARKSVILLE, TENN.— A Clarksville man […]
From David Axe, writing for AOL: In Afghanistan formal institutions such as banks, police and courts are under-developed, but traditional bodies – the non-binding shura councils and the decision-making jirga groups, for example – are highly refined and widely-respected. It would be quicker and more lasting to embed reform efforts in the shura and jirga, […]
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