Watch Special Ops helicopters unload in these insane videos
Courtesy of the “Nightstalkers,” the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, we bring you some absolutely beautiful close air support provided by the Sikorsky MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP)...
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The 10 most challenging things about the Navy SEALs' 5-1/2-mile swim
Many here on SOFREP— including this author — have expressed emphatic lamentations over the level of suck inflicted on those foolhardy and courageous enough to attend Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL...
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The difference between Navy SEALs and the 75th Ranger Regiment
The Internet has no shortage of basement-dwelling commandos beating at their keyboards like chimpanzees as they forcefully insist upon one incorrect factoid or another regarding Special Operations...
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A Congressman and former SEAL Team 6 Commander just introduced Special...
Today, Montana Congressman and former Commander at Navy SEAL Team Six, Ryan Zinke, introduced a resolution to commemorate October as Special Operations Appreciation Month. The purpose of SOAM is to...
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Interview with the Border Patrol team leader who caught escaped New York...
SOFREP interviewed the U.S. Border Patrol team leader who shot New York State escapee/killer Richard Matt when the inmate pointed a 20-gauge shotgun at the agent in a wooded upper New York State...
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Kurdistan’s elite counterterrorism group takes the fight to ISIS
“If I knew where Al-Baghdadi was, I would fly in and kill him tonight,” says Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s Counterterrorism Group or CTG.Polad has been with CTG since its inception in...
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Here's why so many Kurds Believe America Created ISIS
From Catholic priests to businessmen to PKK cadre members, the belief that America created ISIS appears prevalent in Kurdistan.Why do so many Kurds from so many different walks of life think that ISIS...
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The Navy SEALs are dominating the US special ops space race
There is always rivalry within the U.S. special operations community, as we here at SOFREP have documented on multiple occasions (see here and here). While the debate rages as to which of the various...
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4 secrets to boosting mental performance from a former Navy SEAL
I’ve had a 20-year career as a Navy SEAL, 30 years of martial arts training, and more than 15 years of yoga practice and teaching to warriors. If there is anything I can teach you, it’s how important...
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A former Army Ranger sniper reviews 'Sicario' — a new movie about Mexican...
Sometimes I wonder what would scare Americans more: the myth of a hyper-competent American military-industrial complex secretly plotting and scheming, or the reality of the US military and intelligence...
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Navy SEAL reveals 10 steps to survive a mass shooting
What the hell is wrong with us? Seriously, what is happening to the fabric of our society?How do we explain the fact that a small fraction of a certain subset of our society—young, often socially...
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One person has capitalized on collapse of the Soviet Union more than anyone else
The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia.The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.To the outsider who’s...
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This German rifle is taking a bite out of ISIS in Kurdish hands
The G36 could easily be pictured in the hands of a police commando resembling a stormtrooper who’s escorting Snake Pliskin to some wall of a prison island that was once a chunk of the United...
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A former US Army Ranger joins the Kurdish Peshmerga on the front lines...
“Just keep driving until you get to the Daesh,” the Peshmerga checkpoint guard said.I was trying to get to the front line to follow along with the Kurdish offensive outside Kirkuk on September 11th....
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Russian warships may be shutting out Israel's air-force access to Syria
The Israeli air force has an impressive reputation. As a son of an IAF veteran, I grew up hearing stories and watching runways.I was told tales of daring dogfights against the Egyptian spitfires in the...
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Why a free Ukraine matters to America and the free world
Ukraine gained its independence from Russia in 1991, and over a decade later, in the people’s “Revolution of Dignity” of 2014, saw an end to the corrupt regime of President Viktor Fedorovych...
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Inside the secret spy bars of Kiev
“None of the locals go here. The view is nice, but it’s too expensive,” said my friend from Kiev.Drink prices were triple, make that quadruple, what they were compared to my late afternoon beer near...
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The 10 safest airlines in the world
A quick search on Google yields plenty of varying methods of ranking the world’s airlines. You can easily sort airlines (at least those in the US) out by their on-time performance, complaints, baggage...
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Ukrainian troops are re-engineering abandoned tanks
In a derelict industrial complex just outside of Kiev, soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard are demonstrating their technical and tactical competence.Enlisted men and officers of the Ukrainian...
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French special unit dog ‘Diesel’ killed by terrorists in St-Denis raid
French police confirmed on Twitter at 0420ET this morning that they lost one of their finest, K9 “Diesel”.Special purpose dogs have been a critical component for police and military work in the current...
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