Tag: US Navy

Quieter, more lethal Russian subs are a new challenge, but US and NATO navies are on top of it, the head of US Naval Forces Europe says.

Coast Guard marksmen aboard Navy helicopters firing on suspected smugglers “is a daily event,” the head of US Southern Command said in January.

This was my first exposure to that aspect of military planning we fondly call FUBAR: fucked up beyond all repair.

The PLA activities highlighted here are the latest in a string of aggressive and destabilizing actions,” a US military spokesman said.

China is huffing and puffing threats about invading Taiwan. But the very fact that they’re rattling the saber shows how idle the threat is.

“My class started with 150 students,” a former SEAL officer said. “At the end of Hell Week, only 24 were there, some of them pretty beat up.”

A sailor and K9 from Naval Special Warfare Group One practice crevasse self-recovery during austere high altitude environment training.

John Zinn was not the stereotypical Navy SEAL; He looked like your average skinny surf bum. But underneath he had grit and determination.

Click in and catch up on all the reports and breaking SOFREP stories from this week, January 11th – January 17th.

The Iranian Navy was conducting a torpedo drill in the Indian Ocean when the USS Georgia, an Ohio-class attack submarine, suddenly appeared.

Navy Capt. Lissette Loughlin administers the oath of reenlistment to Staff Sgt. Logan Holbrook during a ceremony Jan. 4, 2021.

The fast attack submarine USS Key West moors at Naval Base Guam, Dec. 20, 2020, upon returning from regularly scheduled maintenance.