The Rangers I worked with in Sniper Section at 3rd Ranger Battalion used to do a good job of cleaning house out at the International Sniper competition held annually at Ft. Benning, Georgia. This year it was B/2/3 that dominated, the CIF company with 3rd Special Forces Group stationed at Ft. Bragg. While not as […]
From the official Ft. Benning website: -The 75th Ranger Regiment is a Special Operations unit with the mission to plan and conduct joint special military operations in support of U.S. policies and objectives. The Regiment is the largest Special Operations direct action force. -Ranger School is the Army’s premier leadership school and falls under the […]
When you’re cold and deep in the mountains there is nothing quite like starting a fire to warm the bones, and it provides a little entertainment. There’s something primal and good about starting a warm fire, not that you can do this operationally, most of the time it’s sleeping boots on and gun at the […]
SOFREP is pleased to present the second part of our two part interview with Scott Zastrow, whose ODA was the first into hostile territory during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. How did your ODA get inserted into Afghanistan and what was this experience like? Task Force 160th flew us in. We actually had a […]
I get asked a lot about the capabilities of various Special Operations units. People want to understand who does what and how all of these various SOF elements interact with each other. I’ve also had to explain that since 9/11 the entire SOF community has had to up their game, and the same also goes […]
Sorry folks, nobody else brings to the table what the 75th Ranger Regiment does. Not SF, not SEALs, not Delta. Those units do great work, and each has their niche, but pound for pound the 75th has the most fight in them. Rangers are not surgical counter-terrorist operatives or maritime commandos, they are an Airborne […]
I had been looking forward to reading Dalton Fury’s first novel, Black Site, since it was first announced because I knew as a former Army Special Operations guy, and a writer of military fiction myself, that someone with Fury’s background was set up for a grand slam. There are a lot of writers in this […]
I get a lot of kids looking to join the Army, as well as active duty soldiers, e-mailing me with their questions about Special Forces. One of the rumors going around right now is that all Special Forces candidates graduate from HALO School and get an Associates degree as a part of their training. This […]
Prosecutors have formally dropped the charges against SFC Trey Scott Atwater after he was found to be carrying C4 explosives on an aircraft back in December. Maybe the best part is that the explosives were found by TSA on the return flight after coming back from leave in Texas. Ah, the illusion of security. Thank […]
So what determines victory in Afghanistan? If you asked me after 9-11, my answer would have been simple and probably shared by a lot of SOF operators. Answer=Disrupt a prolific terrorist training network (that we put in place) and capture or kill Bin Laden. We could learn a bit from the Romans, they would not […]
In case you didn’t already know this, LBT makes the most legit gear on the planet. When my Blackhawk H-Gear went tits up on me as a new guy SEAL M-60 Gunner at the Desert Warfare Training Center east of San Diego, CA, I was promptly schooled to buy an LBT rig. I’ve never looked […]
It wasn’t until I left the Ranger Regiment to attend Special Forces training that I began to realize how highly respected the Regiment is, not just in the Special Operations community, but throughout the entire Army. I spent some time thinking about why Rangers are held in such high esteem by their fellow soldiers. The […]
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