I received some odd assignments as assistant adjutant of the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) in the fall of 1962. I supervised the carving of a large pair of parachute wings out of ice for a formal ball. I ordered the names of officers departing from the Group headquarters engraved on boxes of dessert bronzeware […]
Special Forces MACV-SOG vet John Stryker Meyer gives a controversial take as to why the issue of Vietnam POWs has been largely forgotten in recent decades. Full episode up now at apple.co/2pMMwvk
Denver and Delilah Productions Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella, John Goodman Director: David Leitch “Atomic Blonde,” starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy, was a better movie than I had anticipated. A cloak-and-dagger, spy action/thriller set in the late 1980s, Theron plays Lorraine, a British intelligence agent with a thick deployment resume. She sits […]
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On the latest Power of Thought Podcast we introduce a new segment, "From 40,000 Feet." On this first installment I get into Trump and North/South Korea. Check out Episode 35 in its entirety: http://apple.co/2E6tPXM
Marine Corps recruits compete during a pugil sticks bout at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Calif., April 10, 2018. The recruits are assigned to the Recruit Training Regiment’s India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion. Writer’s note: If I could have spent all 13 weeks of recruit training bashing on guys in the pugil stick […]
May 5, 1961 — Former WWII combat veteran and Naval pilot Alan Shepard was strapped tight into his seat as he blasted upward out of the earth’s atmosphere. The Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket barreled through the sky, subjecting Shepard to 6.3g forces as he entered space and the engines shut off. The “tower,” or the main body of […]
The Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island first erupted Thursday, sending billowing clouds of steam and volcanic ash into the sky and prompting emergency officials to order mandatory evacuations. Authorities warned residents to stay out of the area Friday as molten rock shot high into the air from cracks in the ground in Leilani Estates, […]
John Stryker Meyer was most recently on with us back in July of last year and he has since put out another new book titled “SOG Chronicles: Volume One.” The book details the story of him and the Special Forces teammates of his who served as MACV-SOG in Vietnam. As John says, he hopes to […]
(Managing Editor’s note: This was published more than a year ago. However, it has recently hit the media outside SOFREP. So…we’re rerunning it. Enjoy [again].) In response to the recent allegations made by three Navy SEAL whistleblowers to CBS News and information provided to SOFREP by our own sources, many readers chimed in to opine […]
It’s Friday and that means it’s time to talk about some of the serious, not so serious and curious stuff that came out of Asia this week. The Korean summit Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean to set foot on South Korean territory since 1953, marking the beginning of a historical landmark, the first meeting of […]
In the days following the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria that prompted the United States, France and the UK to launch a joint air strike offensive in response last week, a predictable Russian effort was put into motion to control perceptions of the event throughout the world on social media. In the face of […]
Depending on the circles you run in, the word “prepper” has different connotations. Its use in the media on shows with exaggerated premises about crackpots building camouflaged tree houses has made the idea of “being prepared” for disaster somewhat laughable, but among people that have spent some time in failed states, impoverished nations, or places […]
The council will be sending 15 delegates to Iraq in support of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The meeting is scheduled to be held sometime this month. Holland’s ambassador to the U.N. spoke to local press while visiting the U.N. in New York, he confirmed the meeting would be in an effort by the U.N. to […]
Airmen perform a military free fall jump in Djibouti, April 17, 2018. The airmen are assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and they are deployed in support of humanitarian aid and contingency operations in the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa area of responsibility. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gustavo Castillo See U.S. […]
Rohingya refugees just over the Myanmar/Burma border are preparing for the oncoming monsoon season, which generally hits in the summer and can last into the fall. The rains that precede the monsoons have already been hitting the refugee camps, which house just under 700,000 people. According to The International Rescue Committee, the population of the […]
