Carolina Panthers Visit Ft. Bragg’s Special Warfare Center

Members of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers got a first-hand look at some of the training that Army Special Operations Forces go thru and got to experience some of it on a Tuesday visit to Ft. Bragg. The Panthers players got to try a virtual reality parachute jump trainer, fire M-4 weapons during at a battlefield […]

Hand-to-hand combat of SOF (Pt. 6): Modern era

Note: This is part of a series. You can read parts one, two, three, four, and five here. In 2001, the Army opened the Combatives School at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and began formulating training and protocols for this new mixed martial arts-based combatives system, further analyzing and preparing the soldier for close-quarters battle. In 2002, the U.S. Army officially adopted […]