NATO Troop Increase – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has decided to send more troops to Afghanistan. In 2014 the mission of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ended with the hope that the Afghan security forces would be able […]
Video of AC-130W firing its weapons. An aircrew from the 27th Special Operations Wing (SOW) at Cannon Air Force Base is captured on film firing their weapons during a live training exercise. A one-minute long video filmed on 13 June […]
SOF News Update 20170629 – Entry into Australian SOF, USSOCOM tests laser weapons on Apache helicopter, 60th Anniversary for 1st SFGA, USAF SOF conducts refueling exercise, foreign weapons for USSOCOM, SF team instructs Hondurans on 106-mm RR (history), Operation Red […]
SOF News Update 20170628 – Polish JW Grom, Green Beret innocent in ‘home intruder’ case, Navy SEAL fitness, native of Cameroon now member of 1st SOAMDS, Leahy law and FID, US SOF raids in Syria yield intel, Det A in […]
SOF News Update 20170626 – SOF Airmen get $$$ bonus, Norway extends Marines, Erik Prince in Somalia, Jordan’s spies, Lockheed’s C-130J-SOF, revival of Haruv (Israeli SOF), Afghanistan update, Lessons Learned from Iraq, and more. Russia is Pissed as Norway Extends […]
SOF Update 20170623 – Updated C-130J-SOF, U.S. SOF and Nepal Rangers training exercise, the special relationship between the Kurds and U.S. Special Forces, new HQs building for USACAPOC, AFSOC flight surgeon receives award, Afghan Commando School gets visit, Navy SEALs […]
Task Force Southeast is located at Advising Platform Lightning in Gardez, Afghanistan. Gardez is the name of one of the larger cities located in Gardez province – not far from the Pakistan border. Gardez is also home of the 203rd […]
Pack animals have been used by U.S. special operations forces (SOF) many times in the past. Today’s U.S. Army Special Forces are no different. Horses, donkeys, and mules have all been used effectively to carry SF Soldiers and their equipment […]
The Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs) are in the process of coming on line. The first SFAB will be stood up at Fort Benning, Georgia in the fall of 2017. The Army’s new advisor academy is now being organized and […]
SOF News Update 20170621 – SOF general officer assignments, 7th SFGA CoC ceremony, WWII era Chindits, USSF birthday, USSOCOM eyes JLTV, profile of the executive director of the Green Beret Foundation, South Korean and U.S. SOF, photos of ‘SAS Wanderers’, […]
Lt. Gen. Thomas Trask of the United States Air Force (USAF) and Vice Commander of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) spoke on June 16, 2017 at the 75th anniversary ceremony for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). During his […]
Dan Green has provided us with a book that details the U.S. special operations forces (SOF) participation in an innovative method to combat the insurgents in Afghanistan. The Village Stability Operations (VSO) and Afghan Local Police (ALP) were programs to […]
SOF News Update 20170619 – Organization, mission, and training of the 75th Ranger Regiment; new approaches needed for an over-extended SOF force; a profile of the 5th Special Forces Group; USSOCOM shopping list; info on Bill McRaven at University of […]
Unfortunately there will be a temporary break in publishing the SOF Update eNewsletter and posting on the SOF.news website. The extremely small writing staff is headed out in a couple of different directions for the next few months. Three short-term […]
SOF News Update 20170110 – video of Australian SAS in action, Green Beret explains the 100 year war, video of “Air Commando Pride”, Green Beret families, SOF raid on Islamic State in Syria, U.S special operations forces & Trump, and […]
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