Month: November 2019

Land Navigation in Selection is a very big obstacle to overcome. To help prepare the candidates for our Special Operations Forces we’ve gotten back to the basics and gone over the various skills that start at square one and gone from there. Now that we’re all on the same sheet of music, so to speak, […]

A Central Command (CENTCOM) investigation has found that a highly decorated Marine Raider, who was killed in Iraq earlier this year, died from enemy and not friendly fire. Gunnery Sergeant Scott A. Koppenhafer, a Marine Raider assigned to the 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion (2nd MSOB), was killed on August 10 during combat operations in […]

Opinion: Our Special Operations Command has been in the news these days for much of the wrong reasons. And with the number of questions we’ve gotten asking about the different Selection courses for SOF with an increasing number from potential officers, I felt it was time to address an issue. An increasing number of Special […]

A former SOF operator received an unexpected gift during an event hosted by the Navy SEAL Museum. The SOF operator was presented with Silver during the Museum’s 34th Annual Muster and Music Festival that took place on November 8/9. Silver is a Special Operations Military Working Dog (SOMWD). “Working with our veterans remains a primary […]

Editor’s Note: This article by Gina Harkins originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community. A plan to boost the number of elite Navy SEAL platoons that could deploy across the globe remains in limbo months after the effort was halted by a string of high-profile scandals. Naval […]

An airman assigned to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas was shot and killed during an incident involving a police officer on Saturday morning, the Abilene Police Department said. The incident unfolded after police responded to a 911 call from a senior NCO at Dyess AFB reporting that an airman was harming himself, Abilene Police […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s MiG-31K interceptor jet carried out a test of the Kinjal (Dagger) hypersonic missile in Russia’s part of Arctic earlier this month, TASS new agency reported on Saturday, citing two military sources. The report came a day after Danish intelligence service warned of intensifying geopolitical rivalry in the Earth’s freezing North, and […]

Volunteers put on safety equipment during a Special Operations Forces Exercise at Fort McClellan, Alabama, Nov. 7, 2019. SOFEX integrated different Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft with special operations personnel to train for real-life deployment scenarios. This article was first published on The News Rep

The U.S. military may not be too keen on TikTok, but that hasn’t stopped certain members of the Finnish Defense Forces from embracing it with gusto. In mid-November, a short video featuring a quartet of Finnish Navy sailors rocking out with their best impressions of Mickey Mouse and his family went viral on the Chinese […]

The State Department and the Pentagon are looking into allegations that U.S. military hardware, sold to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has ended up in the wrong hands in Yemeni civil war.  The State Department has already sent questions to both of its allies over these allegations but has received “insufficient responses” to the questions […]