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Some heroes wear medals—Alwyn Cashe wore fire, pain, and the lives of his men on his back, and still kept going defining the “never quit” ethos.

Cutting USAID isn’t a budget decision—it’s a strategic blunder that hands our enemies the keys to the neighborhoods we once protected.

A new week opens with drone wars, diplomatic pressure, and Hezbollah defiance across volatile frontlines. Welcome to Monday, July 7th, 2025.

From Gaza to Tehran to the blockchain, America’s enemies are throwing grenades, empty promises, and crypto scams—and whether it’s veterans under fire, Iran’s fair-weather friends, or digital con men, the message is clear: the U.S. isn’t backing down. Welcome to the SOFREP evening brief for July 6th, 2025.

I lost everything I owned three years after leaving the Navy, including my marriage. Then I picked myself up, dusted off, and built a new life.

When the ghost of Hitler starts sounding like the only guy in the room with historical perspective, you know the circus has pitched its tent in City Hall.

This isn’t aid—it’s alchemy, where Western billions vanish into Kyiv’s velvet-lined black hole while front-line troops duct tape rifles and pray the paperwork clears before the next shell hits.

From Elon Musk blowing up his bromance with Trump to start the America Party, to the gator-guarded swamp gulag known as Alligator Alcatraz, to deporting foreign convicts to a war zone they’ve never set foot in, American politics this week feels less like a constitutional republic and more like the fever dream of a Red State Dr. Moreau. Welcome to Sunday, July 6th, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.

The CIA’s decades-long Oswald cover-up is finally unraveling, Trump’s Medicaid cuts are gutting rural America like a trout on a dock, and even his “ceasefire magic” with Putin fizzled faster than a wet match—three reminders that truth, health care, and peace are all in short supply. Here is your SOFREP Brief for Saturday evening, July 5th, 2025.

York didn’t need nods or Gucci gear to be lethal—he just needed faith, a clean rifle, and the will to get up and move forward when hell broke loose.

Those who still believe Iran can be deterred by half-measures or diplomatic niceties haven’t learned a thing from the last two decades of American missteps in the Middle East.

Robin Olds roared into combat with a handlebar mustache, a middle finger to bureaucracy, and a brain wired for turning aerial warfare into an art form.