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Editor’s note: What a better way to celebrate the Military Appreciation Month than with some “Why I Joined” stories? I was skipping class the morning of September 11th. It was three days after my 17th birthday and I was a cocksure senior with a buddy who had a car. I was making my way to […]
It has been nine years since SEAL Team 6 operators raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and killed the leader of al-Qaeda and the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The effects of Operation Neptune’s Spear, however, still vibrate in the Special Operations and, more specifically, Navy SEAL community. On April 21, No Ordinary […]
The guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG 95), front, and the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), back, conduct replenishment-at-sea with the fleet-replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) while conducting operations with the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Ike is conducting operations in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the […]
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has ordered his Navy to destroy any American terrorist force that threatens Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf. This latest bellicose statement emanated from Major General Hossein Salami on state television. It came a day after President Trump warned the Iranians via Twitter that he has “instructed […]
Amid the ongoing social distancing measures affecting the country and the military, the Navy SEAL community just received its newest operators. SEAL Qualification Training Class 336 graduated on April 15 and its members received the coveted SEAL Trident. Last month, Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command decided to suspend some SEAL and Special Warfare Combatant-Craft […]
“Send us the Goddamn cold-weather equipment we ordered from supply. Signed, Freezing in Fucking Afghanistan.” This message was sent to the Commanding Officer of SEAL Team 3 by my platoon Chief in December of 2001. Sometimes leaders have incredibly tough decisions to make. Especially when traditional channels of communication aren’t working. In rare cases going […]
The U.S. Navy officially transferred four Mark V Special Operations Craft (MK V SOC) to the Hellenic Navy last week. The four boats, which have been assigned to the Hellenic Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams/Navy SEALs (ΜΥΚ), will have to undergo maintenance and refitting before they can requalify as operational. The MK V SOC packs two […]
By early 1945, the Japanese Empire was shrinking daily and the war had reached its home shores. Less than three and half years after Pearl Harbor, American industrial might was on full display. And it was never more apparent than during the Battle of Okinawa. The once-proud Japanese Imperial Navy that Americans feared would threaten […]
An F-35B Lightning II assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) takes off from the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations […]
U.S. Sailors attach a pennant onto an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the “Warlords” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 51, on the flight deck aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) during a vertical replenishment training March 27, 2020. McCampbell is underway conducting operations in the Indo-Pacific region while assigned […]
The Trump administration announced earlier this week that the U.S. is moving newly-deployed naval ships toward the coast of Venezuela as it will be beefing up counter-narcotic operations in the Caribbean. Not so coincidentally this new deployment follows an indictment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on narcoterrorist conspiracy charges, Maduro is accused of aiding in […]
An F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepares to land on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) during an air defense exercise. The 31st MEU’s F-35s provide a lethal offensive aviation capability that allows the Expeditionary Strike Force […]
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