Attempting Special Operations Selection as an Older Candidate
At Selection, your age won’t carry your ruck or find your points—your grit, your prep, and your ability to bleed with the team will.
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At Selection, your age won’t carry your ruck or find your points—your grit, your prep, and your ability to bleed with the team will.
The rifleman isn’t obsolete—but the idea he can fight modern wars without tech fluency sure is.
Trump’s two-week ultimatum is less a diplomatic move and more like tossing a lit stick of dynamite into a bear’s den and yelling, “Negotiate!”
Auterion’s 33,000 Skynode kits aren’t just hardware—they’re the raw code of a new kind of warfare, where cheap drones think, hunt, and strike faster than any Russian general can blink.
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A sidearm that holsters like a housecat and bites like a rattlesnake—God help us if it starts asking for rank and pension.
I didn’t fight in Ukraine because it was easy—I fought because it was right, and watching Marjorie Taylor Greene parrot Kremlin lies from the safety of her seat in Congress makes me wonder if she even knows the difference.
From Gaza to Michigan, from the Thai-Cambodian border to Trump’s press podium, the world’s on edge—knife attacks in supermarkets, artillery in border towns, and leaders calling not for peace, but for someone to “finish the job.” Welcome to Sunday Morning, July 27, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
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They thought the shadows would shield them forever, but now they’re flailing in the sun, exposed, desperate, and one step from being flushed out for good.