Several books have been published stating that Blue Light was never invited to try out for Delta Force and none of them ever served in Delta. Both claims are false.

The Islamist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), hidden in jungle redoubts on southern Filipino islands in Sulu, beheaded John Ridsdel, a Canadian hostage yesterday.  “Ridsdel’s head, which was placed in a plastic bag, was dumped by motorcycle-riding militants Monday night in Jolo town in impoverished Sulu, about 950 kilometres south of Manila,” CBC News reported. ASG […]

The Blue Light members had to storm the building and engage in target discrimination as they fired on the enemy silhouettes.

In a scenario eerily reminiscent to US Special Forces deployments to Central America in the 1980’s, Obama announced today that 250 more Special Operations troops would be deployed to Syria to help fight ISIS.  In the 80’s the numbers of Special Forces troops allowed in countries like El Salvador and Nicaragua was capped around 50, […]

Colonel Mountel clearly wanted Jakovenko on Blue Light, so when Jakovenko demanded his entire ODA be allowed to come with him, his request was granted.

Blue Light had begun their training as an interim counterterrorism unit while Charlie Beckwith took his 18 to 24 months to stand up Delta Force.

The situation in Libya continues to heat up while the ISIS crisis grinds on in the Middle East.

Each time we cover Chinese espionage here at SOFREP we have come to expect the usual deluge of Chinese nationals accusing us of being racist.  You know, racist against the oppressed Han Chinese minority group that numbers in well over a billion people… A propaganda poster recently spread around Beijing as a part of “National Security Education Day” […]

Blue Light secured the Army’s entire stockpile of match-grade ammunition that year, which upset the Army Marksmanship Unit to no end.

Following an exchange program with the British Special Air Service (SAS) in 1962, Charlie Beckwith realized that America was missing something.

Following a violent hostage crisis in Washington, D.C., the Army green-lit two dedicated counterterrorism units to address the issue.

Assembling a rapidly deploying Special Forces element — Blue Light — to respond to terrorist attacks came just in the nick of time.