US Navy Special Operators from SEAL Team 6 will be testing new communication headsets that are supposed to maintain their peak performance during operations. The Commander of all Naval Special Operations asked industry leaders at a conference in Washington, D.C. to develop and demonstrate technologies that offer “cognitive enhancement” capabilities to boost his elite forces’ […]
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Spec Ops History: SEAL Team Six’s Attempted Capture of Abdikadar
(Article courtesy of Tactical Life) The two-story beach house was just 220 yards from the Indian Ocean in southern Somalia. It was known as a gathering place for the radical Jihadist group al-Shabaab, who were engaged in a civil war in their native country, had been associated with a number of terrorist attacks elsewhere, and […]
Meet SEAL Team 6’s Bladesmith
On a summer day in 2010, I walked into a sporting goods store in Nashville and bought the sharpest, meanest looking knife I could find. It wasn’t completely for show: a few days later, I boarded a plane to Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment with the 101st Airborne Division. For the next 12 months, the […]
SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines
They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have emerged soaked in blood that was not their own. On clandestine raids in the dead of the night, their weapons of choice have ranged from customized carbines to primeval tomahawks. […]
SOLKOA Suma Pro Navy SEAL Survival Kit
What a treat to be able to preview AND review a survival kit, such as the SOLKOA Suma Pro Survival Kit available at Precision Rifle Supply. When it first arrived, my initial thought was….SWEET…nice and compact. When we plan for any kind of adventure, be it on land or on the water, most new comers don’t […]
Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggle | GPNVG-18
Many US Special Operations Forces (SOF) operations happen under the cover of night. American’s elite warriors employ various electronic equipment to let them see into the shadows. These include thermal imagers and image-intensifying night vision goggles (NVG). The latter normally come in monocular or binocular versions. While they do their job fine, a drawback of […]
Book Review: Eric Blehm’s Fearless
Eric Blehm’s Fearless is one of the best books I have ever read. Fearless is a biography written about Adam Brown, a SEAL Team Six operator who died in battle while trying to save his teammates. From start to finish, it is an amazing story filled with accounts of courage, bravery, personal struggles, redemption, and sacrifice. Adam […]