Month: October 2019

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Radio Free Europe / Radio Free Liberty When Sakhidad started working as a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan at the age of 19, he hoped his “faithful and valuable” service would earn him a special U.S. immigrant visa and eventual U.S. citizenship. In 2011, after two […]

The first military veteran to ever receive a penis transplant — and only the fourth in the world to undergo such a procedure — recently shared his story with MIT’s Technology Review. The Oct. 14 article by Technology Review’s Andrew Zaleski includes an interview with a combat-wounded Navy Corpsman — identified only as “Ray” in […]

The debut of the SOFREP Team Room cartoon feature depicts Managing Editor Stavros Atlamazoglou clad in flamboyant pirate attire leading his mob of writers, termed his “pirate crew,” forward into the resurrected SOFREP format. Against odds, “Charge!” he cries out in his native Greek language. Heavy-lift writer Alex “A-Blast” Hollings follows swinging from a (pirate […]

With northeast Syria engulfed in the fog of war, the Turks, Russians, and Kurds have all launched their own propaganda campaigns to win the battle over information. One of the biggest unknowns at the moment involves exactly how many ISIS fighters and their families previously captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces have managed to escape […]

Few things say “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum” like a Navy amphibious assault craft absolutely covered with Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighters ready to bomb an adversary back to the Stone Age. That’s the logic behind the so-called “Lightning […]

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report into the fatal crash of a B-17 bomber crash in Connecticut earlier this month. Shortly after takeoff at 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, the pilot of the vintage WWII-era plane signaled to air traffic control at Bradley International Airport that he sought to land. The […]

BUD/S sucked, everybody. These are just 10 examples of how one phase of the training did its best to beat us down. It is not for everybody. Hooya. This article was first published on The News Rep

While America’s forever wars continue to rage abroad, the streaming wars are starting to heat up at home. On Monday, the Walt Disney Company announced that its brand-new online streaming service, aptly titled Disney+, will launch an all-out assault on eyeballs around the world starting on November 12th with an arsenal of your favorite content. […]

SSgt. Christopher Pherson, a flight engineer with the 8th Special Operations Squadron, performs grounded flight simulation tests on a CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft at Hurlburt Field. Ospreys are used for long-range infiltration, exfiltration and resupply missions for special operations forces worldwide. This article was first published on The News Rep

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Business Insider. On Monday, The New York Times reported that U.S. officials were considering plans to move the U.S. nuclear arsenal from Inçirlik Air Base in Turkey. This move would be likely to further deteriorate the tense relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, which has rapidly devolved as […]