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The Special Forces rite of passage is about to begin for the next class of SF candidates. The final training in Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC) for prospective SF soldiers is the Unconventional Warfare (UW) exercise “Robin Sage”, which we went over in detail in an earlier post, that you can read here: The prospective Green […]
Zero Tolerance’s new 0609 folding knife can trace its origins to the original Factory Custom 0606CF, although this new release offers a smaller and more concealable profile. Designed by RJ and Matt Martin, this knife is a stunner – both visually and functionally. It doesn’t offer any otherworldly steel or materials mined from Mars – […]
Known as the “King of Cool,” Steve McQueen’s Hollywood career spanned three decades, from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. Among the most notable films of McQueen’s career is 1963 film classic The Great Escape, in which three Allied prisoners of war in a POW camp. The video clip below is a scene showing a daring motorcycle escape jump that McQueen […]
Dedication for this essay goes to SOFREP brother Alex Laserblast Samuel Booth Foster was a kayaking phenomenon. As for the biggest, strongest brothers in the Combat Diver Academy, none of them could keep pace with Sam in a kayak. Even while power sailing, a technique where a kayak would paddle hard and erect a sail […]
We covered the importance and advantages of carrying a fixed blade in a previous article as well as a story about the origins of this concealable fixed blade knife. I was first introduced to it by former Navy SEAL Kyle Defoor. I have followed Kyle on social media for quite some time and had the opportunity […]
How do Rangers spend their Memorial Day? Probably in much the way you think we do. And much the way veterans across the country do to honor their brothers and sisters and those countless many who have given everything throughout our history. Do I mean we sit around and stare at a slideshow of our […]
I served in the U.S. Navy from 1976-1979 as a Machinist Mate aboard the U.S.S. Horne CG-30 out of San Diego, Ca. This was a fairly quiet and transitional period for the military in the Post Vietnam years. Most people in the country really didn’t want to hear about the military nor cared about the […]
For the most part, pistol fundamentals remain the same from instructor to instructor. Depending on the instructor, they all have their own spin on each of the fundamentals. From what I’ve been exposed to, I have to say I prefer what Pat Mac has to say in the following video regarding pistol fundamentals. Specifically, I […]
As the gun debate continues to rage in this country, the social media conversation has been dominated by memes and straw man arguments bandied about by the most hard-headed among both groups — with gun control and gun rights advocates both circling their proverbial wagons and congratulating one another on the new and witty ways they can […]
Utilizing a shotgun to defeat a door in CQB is a technique that is not only efficient but also relatively cost-effective in terms of specialized equipment. Really it requires very little other than a shotgun and the correct ammunition. The shotgun itself should be a tertiary weapon to the breacher’s sidearm and primary weapon in […]
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