In the eight years since the Pentagon opened previously closed special operations jobs to women, just four have entered the training pipeline to become a Navy SEAL. Only 17 women have attempted Marine ...
Surrounded by high fences at Fort Bliss, classic hip hop by the group House of Pain blasts from the speakers inside a shoot house. The structure resembles a human-sized maze where Soldiers, not mice, ...
The National Fire Academy (NFA) is opening the application window for its Special Operations Program Management and Leadership course, designed to strengthen leadership in fire service special ...
Special Operations Command should more closely study data on training incidents and spend more time observing high-risk, noncombat operations to better mitigate accidents involving its elite forces, a ...
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain We all have fears, and for some people, those fears can be debilitating. For a Special Operations trooper, giving in ...
Special operations forces deploy around the world in high-risk missions. And the troops that fall under Special Operations Command experience a high rate of serious and sometimes deadly accidents ...
Special tactics operators communicate with a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to 437th Airlift Wing during Mission Generation Exercise 23 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 5. (Tech. Sgt. Carly Kavish/Air Force) ...
It is said that no 30-minute gym routine prepares you for a day of special operations selection training. When challenged with running, rucking, swimming, high-repetition calisthenics and obstacle ...
Future Air Force Combat Controllers may soon be skipping a major portion of their traditional training pipeline, forgoing the chance to earn a combat diver “scuba bubble.” Air Force Special Operations ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The Army’s 157 newest Special Forces soldiers for the first time donned their iconic Green Berets before a crowd of cheering family and friends packed into the city’s Crown ...
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