A base whose name is synonymous with five decades of Army airborne and special operations units — but also with a slave-trading Confederate general — may get a new name today. The federal Naming Commission was expected to announce a recommended new ...
The Navy has identified the Naval Special Warfare sailor who died following a training incident at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia. Electronics Technician 1st Class Ryan DeKorte, 35, died Monday, May 9, several days ...
A junior Navy EOD officer died during explosive ordnance training at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay on Wednesday, April 20. Lt. j.g. Aaron Fowler, 29, died while participating in a training evolution with Marines at the Hawaii base. ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. — As the David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition headed into the final day of events Sunday, April 10, five teams from the 75th Ranger Regiment were all competing for first place. Among them were Capt. Reace Hudgeons and his ...
Four teams from the 75th Ranger Regiment posted a sweep of the top four places in the 38th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia. A fifth team representing the 75th came in sixth. The team of Joshua Corson and ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Some of the remaining 28 teams in the 38th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition got as much as four hours of sleep before Day Two of the competition, like Tymothy Boyle and Joshua Corson, both captains in the 75th ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Capt. Steven Burroughs' uniform dripped cold, muddy water as he huddled around a fire alongside about a dozen other competitors, all desperate for warmth before facing their next challenge. But he had traveled nearly 1,000 miles ...
A criminal investigation into eight US Special Forces soldiers' role in the death of an Afghan shooting suspect produced troubling accusations against the Green Berets, but not enough evidence to issue formal charges or open a court-martial against ...
A Fort Bragg team defended its hometown title at the US Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition, which finished on Friday, March 25, while a team from the 1st French SAS beat every other American team in the contest to finish ...
The Supreme Court ruled Friday, March 25, that the Navy had the right to refuse to deploy a group of 26 Navy SEALs and nine other special operators who had not received a COVID-19 vaccine. The ruling reverses a court order the SEALs won in January in ...
Two longtime special operators told Coffee or Die Magazine that the Switchblade drones the Unites States is sending to Ukraine should help level the playing field against Russia's invasion forces. Both said the systems can deliver an artillery-sized ...
Music drowned out the sound of Jason Howell’s fingertip exploding. It was the Saturday after he’d started the Special Forces Qualification Course — informally known as the Q Course — and he was alternating between dumbbell chest ...
In the shadowy world of special operations, America’s most elite military units each bring something unique to the battlefield. Whether that is Navy SEALs' expertise in counterterrorism and direct action raids, or the 160th Special Operations ...
Two current members and one veteran of Canada’s most elite special forces team are under official investigation for allegedly supporting protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the country’s capital, according to reports in Canadian media. The ...
A senior Marine lawyer's actions were the “mortal enemy of military justice,” a military judge ruled Wednesday, Feb. 9, as he dismissed all charges against a Marine Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, corpsman who faced counts of manslaughter in ...
A New Jersey man who died just hours after completing so-called “Hell Week” in Navy SEAL selection training was an all-star college football player whose high school coach remembered him as a “great, great kid on the field but even better off the ...
The leader of the ISIS terrorist network blew himself up, officials said, as a US special operations raid closed in on his home overnight in Syria. The raid had been planned since at least December, a US official told reporters, when Islamic State ...
For more than 40 years, the AH-6 Little Bird, a special operations helicopter, has been supporting U.S. commandos across the world. Flown by the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, nicknamed the “Night Stalkers,” the AH-6 is a small ...
Navy SEALs have paused training operations in Washington state parks as a legal challenge from locals concerned about the environmental and psychological impacts of “war games” comes to a head. “I do not care to catch a glimpse of apparently armed ...
John Chovanes swore into the Army Reserves in front of the Liberty Bell. It seemed like the right move: He was a Philly kid, his dad was a veteran, and he was as patriotic as the next guy — maybe a little more than the next guy — so joining up ...
