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The inside story of the deadliest attack on a U.S. military base during the Iraq War
This Medal of Honor recipient now has a street named after him. It used to be named for a Confederate
Navy warship named for Medal of Honor recipient who saved fellow sailors from deadly inferno
‘There’s an Air Force base here,’ say annoyed cops to people calling 911 about jet noise
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This unsettling Army recruitment video is a master class in psychological warfare
“Everything is a weapon. Even this video.”
‘I want the rain. I want it to be nasty’ — How the world’s deadliest snipers compete
"[T]hrow your kit on and get out there and run and gun."
A Purple Heart reminds us that US troops are still fighting in Northern Africa
A soldier with the 20th Special Forces Group recently received the Purple Heart after being wounded in northwest Africa in January.
Politics and pressure are sabotaging women in special operations
Heavy-handed policy has been applied like a hammer to a task for a scalpel.
What we know about the 2 former Marine special operators charged in a murder-for-hire plot
They face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
This is how to rescue a hostage from terrorists in under a minute
They "cleared a house they had never been in before in under 40 seconds,” one former Green Beret said. “It’s crazy.”
They were painted as rogue Green Berets. This is the truth the Pentagon doesn’t want you to hear
“They didn’t care that there was no backup for those boys.”
The Air Force wants to turn the C-130 into a floating commando wagon
"Seaborne operations offer nearly unlimited water landing zones."
The special ops soldier who died in Kabul would have deployed even if he’d known the outcome, wife says
"He could have done whatever he wanted, but he wanted to serve his country.”
Air Force combat controller breaks down that wild desert airstrike scene from ‘Transformers’
"What CCTs do is they stitch everything together, and they determine whether everyone on the battlefield lives or dies."
Air Force graduates first class of new ‘Special Reconnaissance’ commandos
“This ceremony not only celebrates the first organically trained SR airmen in our wing, but in the U.S. Air Force. I’m incredibly proud.”
The Air Force wants $48 million to drop commandos into battle from orbit
"When you can launch an austere airbase in a space capsule, that’s frickin’ awesome!”
Why this US military survival school is the most feared of them all
This is a Pass/Fail kind of course.
This $50 SEAL Team 6 hoodie is for silent — but loudly dressed — professionals. Book deal not included
Or you could just wear your unit sweater and, you know, not.
Putting warheads on foreheads — This is the gear Air Force combat controllers carry into battle
Spoiler alert: Sharpies are a big one
Why Green Beret training involves shooting out of a Toyota Corolla and ramming vehicles
No, this isn't from the set of 'John Wick'
Special operations unit finally admits its strange tweet did not come from a hacker
Right, a 'hacker' did it.
The insane heroism of Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman is getting a movie
"John’s actions saved all of us."
Army special operations medic and pregnant wife die in apparent murder-suicide
"It's a complete shock... It's like a horror movie."
Special Operations Command is now ‘on par’ with the military services, Acting SecDef Miller says
'I have directed the special operations civilian leadership to report directly to me instead of through the current bureaucratic channels'
A new memoir follows a Night Stalker pilot’s epic journey through the War on Terror
"This book is not about the 160th or me, they are stories about our tribe, trials, and tribulations on and off the battlefield."
A new memoir follows a Night Stalker pilot’s epic journey through the War on Terror
"This book is not about the 160th or me, they are stories about our tribe, trials, and tribulations on and off the battlefield."
