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If you’ve got the scars, the spine, and words sharp enough to cut steel, this is your shot to grab The Loadout Room by the throat and make it roar.

If we allow government pressure to muzzle the voices of late-night entertainers, we surrender not only their freedom but our own stake in a democracy built on dissent and open dialogue.

From a stadium-sized farewell to Charlie Kirk, to Trump’s $100K H-1B shockwave rattling boardrooms, and Europe’s airports grinding down under a cyberattack, this week proves that politics, policy, and code can all go down hard—and when they do, the fallout hits real people first. Welcome to your SOFREP Sunday Morning Brief. It’s September 21st, 2025.

From Waltz’s bruising confirmation to the U.N., to a nation preparing for Charlie Kirk’s massive memorial, Polish jets scrambling against Russian strikes, and Qatar freezing mediation after an Israeli hit in Doha, the world feels like it’s moving from one crisis stage to the next without pause. Welcome to SOFREP’s Saturday Evening Brief for September 20, 2025.

I don’t consider myself a “gun nut,” but rather a husband, father, and hunter who owns the firearms my family and I genuinely need for defense, sport, and tradition.

Gold wings used to mean you could land on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean—now they’re handing them out like participation trophies at flight school.

I lost 72 of my brothers in arms, and will not remain silent while the Constitution they died defending is eroded by partisan politics.

Omar Abdul-Qader wasn’t some desert trigger-puller; he was the guy wiring the bombs and booking the flights, and now he’s a smoking crater in Hama.

Trump’s lethal strike at sea, an armed man stopped at Kirk’s memorial site, and Cruz blasting the FCC like a mob movie all hammer home one truth—America’s political battles are being fought with weapons, warrants, and words sharper than knives. Welcome to your Saturday Morning brief. It’s September 20th, 2025.

Trump taps Waltz for UN, eyes $100K H-1B fee as Pakistan vows nukes to Saudi Arabia. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Sometimes the hardest part of training isn’t pushing yourself through the pain, but knowing when to back off before you break.

And now here I was, just days away from graduating boot camp, trying to figure out how the hell to get myself on the track to BUD/S.