Louis Bremer – who reportedly once described himself on Instagram as a 'Harley riding, tequila-drinking Navy SEAL' – has been nominated to be the Pentagon’s top civilian leader in charge of special operations forces
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Wednesday arrested a former Special Forces soldier and another man wanted by Japan on charges that they enabled the escape of former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos Ghosn out of the country. Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said that former U.S. Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, […]
Editor’s note: This article by Matthew Cox originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community U.S. Special Operations Command will wait for the Army‘s 6.8mm rifle and automatic rifle, but it’s moving forward to adopt a new sniper support weapon chambered in the longer-range 6.5mm Creedmoor round. If […]
Former Army Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II received the Medal of Honor from President Donald J. Trump at an Oct. 1, 2018, White House ceremony for actions he took while serving as a medic in Afghanistan on April 6, 2018.
Nine years ago Will Chesney got an unexpected call: He was to grab his dog and head to Virginia, immediately. What came next were weeks of exhaustive training as the Navy SEAL and his military working dog, Cairo, prepared for one of the most significant special operations missions in history: Operation Neptune Spear. By May […]
The future of U.S. special operations may no longer involve a gaggle of commandos busting through a door, according to U.S. Special Operations Command’s top general, but ‘cyber operator’ tasked with bringing their unique set of tools to bear on adversaries. Speaking to thousands of members of the defense industrial base at the 2020 Virtual […]
Chris Pratt has long since graduated from lovable goof to full-blown action star, so it's not too surprising that he's been cast in an upcoming Navy SEAL series from Amazon Prime
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and pop singer Grimes have welcomed a baby boy into the world with one of the most unusual names we've ever seen
The newest playable character in “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” is based off of Tu Lam, a real-life Army Special Forces veteran
A group of eight special tactics airmen were honored with valor awards for their "selfless actions" during a series of raids carried out during a three-month deployment to Afghanistan, one of which resulted in the death of a top Al Qaeda leader in the region
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) may have killed 544 Americans and sickened another 44,183, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but that hasn’t stopped official military social media channels from attempting to latch on to the topic with some tone deaf jokes. Just days after an Army social media […]
Naval Special Warfare Command reported it now has six sailors affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), two of which are in San Diego.
An Air Force Special Tactics combat controller was found dead Thursday afternoon after he went missing during a surface training swim at a Florida naval base.
An Army Special Forces candidate has died after he was found unresponsive in his Fort Bragg barracks room on Monday. Pvt. Jamie Wyatt Boger was assigned to the Special Warfare Medical Group in October last year for medical rehabilitation of a training injury, per the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School […]
U.S. Special Operations Command is on the hunt for a brand new battlewagon. SOCOM has issued a request for information for the command’s new Joint Armored Ground Mobility System (JAGMS) program that’s intended to procure a new armored tactical vehicle for use by ground troops. According to the RFI, the new armored vehicle must be able […]
What would happen if every SAW Gunner was replaced by an HR Rep?
In an upcoming 60 Minutes interview, retired Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher — the Navy SEAL who was charged with murdering an ISIS prisoner in 2017 before his acquittal in 2019 — says that it was "wrong" for him to pose for photos with the dead ISIS fighter
With his new Netflix comedy special, comedian Pete Davidson decided to revisit that time more than a year ago when he made a joke about Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former Navy SEAL who lost his eye in an IED strike in Afghanistan.
An interview with Retired Lt Cmdr. Michael J. Walsh about the Stoner 63 weapons system used by the Navy SEALs in Vietnam.
A female National Guard soldier is set to become the first to join the Green Berets
The Army announced on Monday that it would pay big money to Special Forces Warrant Officers if they re-signed for another five years.
A member of Navy SEAL Team 6 has been found guilty in a catfishing scam.
The Pentagon has identified two Army Special Forces soldiers who were killed on Saturday in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. The soldiers, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, were Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, of Las […]
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett told Task & Purpose that American and Afghan forces were "engaged by direct fire" during operations on Saturday.
