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Just south of Mosul, Iraq, is located a military base — currently a U.S. Army facility called the Logistical Support Area (LSA) — that has been alternately controlled by the U.S. military, Islamic State, Iraqi Security Forces, and even NATO, over the course of the past handful of years. The base is currently being used […]
August 6, 2011, was a black day for the Navy’s SEAL Teams, for the U.S. Special Operations Command writ large, and for the country as a whole. On that day, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter — bearing the call sign “Extortion 17” — and carrying 17 SEALs, five Naval Special Warfare support personnel, three Air Force […]
The SEAL Legacy Foundation produced a tribute video for the its sixth annual benefit and gala held this past Veteran’s Day 2016, which raised money for the SEAL community, including the families of the fallen. The five-minute video includes inspirational text and a picture of each of the 87 individual Navy SEALs who have fallen […]
As has been recently reported, President-elect Donald Trump has settled on former Army General Mike Flynn as his choice for national security advisor, to take effect once the new president assumes office in January. Flynn was the former head of intelligence for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). […]
According to a report in The Hill newspaper, which we first linked here on SOFREP back in September, the Navy SEALs are in the process of procuring a new mini-submersible vehicle to complement (and one day, perhaps replace) their fleet of SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDVs). I thought I would go a little further in depth on […]
It’s Navy SEAL overload this winter, at least on both the big and small screens. As we recently reported here on SOFREP, a new SEAL movie will release on Super Bowl weekend of 2017. It now looks like we can add a SEAL television show to that mix. As reported way back in early 2016, […]
As I sometimes do, I am opening up this particular SOFREP space today, on this Veteran’s Day 2016, to a guest contributor. It is an honor to be able to see what this day means to a 12-year old girl, a post-Millenial. I think you will all agree, she does us proud. Veteran’s Day By Annalise […]
In an election night that saw Republicans sweep political races in the state of Missouri, all the way up and down the ballot, former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens (pictured above) became became just the THIRD former Team guy to ascend to the office of chief executive of an American state, following in the footsteps of […]
Well, the day is finally upon us. Tuesday, November 8, 2016, is election day. I know, I know…you are so happy it is almost over, both candidates are terrible, you want a meteor to destroy the earth, yada yada yada. We have pretty much heard it all by now. We all just want the misery […]
Straight off of the SOFREP entertainment beat today, in news that is sure to enrage all of you out there who are sick and tired of seeing and hearing about U.S. Navy SEALs all throughout the media — excluding on this website, of course — it was reported on the cinema-focused website deadline.com recently that […]
Buckle up. We are about to dive head first down the rabbit hole of Lebanese politics, a task fraught always with both danger and head-spinning confusion. I will try to make this as simple to understand as possible — including, for myself — and will do my best to avoid making any mistakes in this […]
A Leesburgh, Virginia-based former Navy SEAL, Brian Hoke, was killed in Afghanistan on October 21, 2016, while serving in an unspecified capacity in the war-torn country. The 1996 graduate of the United States Naval Academy was born in Nebraska, raised in South Dakota, and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training class 210 in April, […]