Three U.S. Special Operations Soldiers Die in Mali

Last Friday (April 20th), driving through the streets of Bamako, the capital of Mali, a vehicle with six people was involved in an accident. All six in the vehicle were killed in what is reported to be a “single-car accident”. Officials in Washington have released information that three of the individuals were U.S. soldiers; two […]

75th Ranger Regiment Capabilities Demonstration

Enjoy a few pictures from the capabilities demonstration that the 75th Ranger Regiment did for the public at Ft. Bragg a few days ago, and head over the Regiment’s official Facebook page for more!

OUTRAGE: Special Forces Soldiers Caught with Colombian Prostitutes

Yeah, it’s a damn outrage that this is even against the regs.  Guys wouldn’t join the Army if they thought that Uncle Sugar would come down on them over this sort of thing.  From the LA Times, “The Pentagon investigation is focusing on five Special Forces Army soldiers, two Marines, two Navy personnel and one […]

NEWS: 160th Special Operations Aviation conducts “routine” training in Chicago

Chicago has an upcoming NATO summit next month which is what the city of Chicago is putting out as a reason for the military exercise that just took place in broad daylight with both Blackhawk and Littlebird helicopters, apparently loaded with assault teams.  Is somebody rehearsing for big city, urban operations? On YouTube: %EMBED3% On […]

Best Ranger Competition

I’ll post the winners of this year’s Best Ranger Competition ASAP, -Jack Shortly before dawn today, 50 Army Ranger teams from around the world will be mentally and physically challenged for the next three days during the 29th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition. “We aren’t just making it for them to ease […]

SOFREP National Security Roundup

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 […]

Massif and Brandon Webb Team Up For Style-Quality-Functionality

When I was over running Kit Up for Military.com (Is that site still around??…lol) one thing became very apparent to me.  Not everyone has an unlimited Spec Ops budget and can buy $400 pants or jackets.  I took this to heart when I sat down with Sarah, Chris, Christy, Martin, CR, Mike and team at […]

Change Detection – Warfighters finally have a “Cheat-Sheet”

Almost immediately following the swift 2003 defeat of Saddam’s forces in Iraq, US and Coalition Forces were confronted with an adversary that brought an onslaught of overwhelming and indiscriminate violence never anticipated by even the sharpest military strategists.  Quickly becoming the number one killer of military personnel, the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) forever changed the […]

SOCOM Needs to Improve Cyber Terror Policy & Long Term Strategy

I write this with great respect in having served with the men and women of US SOCOM. I’m a thirteen year, six month veteran of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and have deployed to southwest Asia five times and had one son born when I was chasing AQ in the north of Afghanistan in 2001. […]

Best Ranger!

The Best Ranger competition is being held this year from April 13th to the 14th at its usual location, Ft. Benning, Georgia, home to the Ranger Training Brigade and the 75th Ranger Regiment.  The above picture shows previous winners from a few years ago, in this case Sergeant Nash who was one of my intructors […]

Ranger Recon!

SOFREP, meet Iassen.  I asked him to be a part of the team because he served as an RTO in 3/75 at the same time that I was there and because he is an exceptionally knowledgeable subject matter expert, backed by the fact that he is a very articulate writer.  So here it is, because […]

The A-team in support of the Special Forces Weapons Sergeant

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 […]