An AFT score and the promotion points it earns are two different numbers. Since replacing the ACFT on June 1, 2025, the Army Fitness Test has used five events worth up to 500 points altogether.
The U.S. special operations forces community is actively tackling the invisible threat of repeated blast overpressure to protect warfighters’ brain health without compromising combat readiness.
By Matt Ikenoyama. SOCOM’s Preservation of the Force and Family program names spiritual health as one of its pillars; an important aspect in operator syndrome. Moral injury isn’t an endocrine problem or a sleep problem. It’s a violation of conscience, and working with it means working with guilt, meaning, and trust. That’s the territory chaplains train for.
By Dr. Chris Phillips. Most transition content written for the SOF community affirms what operators already believe about themselves. This piece does something different. It argues that the traits which made them exceptional are the same ones most likely to quietly damage their marriages and their post-service identity if they are never deliberately redirected.
Story by Special Operations Association of America. Results from a study commissioned by the U.S. Special Operations Command found that members of the SOF community are facing cancer at a rate 18 percent higher than their conventional forces counterparts. The Special Operations Association of America has long highlighted the health effects that SOF personnel experience due to exposures during training and deployment cycles.
A growing number of researchers are exploring alternatives to conventional psychotropic medications and talk therapy, including neuromodulation-based interventions. Recently, researchers revealed promising results for a new method modeled after a treatment for depression and OCD called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Story by Lindsey Schmidt. Project R3con is not fighting skepticism from the Special Operations community. It’s fighting numbers. “We’re fighting for funding,” Anna Richardson, the organization’s CEO, said bluntly. “That’s the story. How absolutely difficult it is to secure funding […]
By Erin McFee, Corioli Institute. This article is based on field interviews with personnel from Ukrainian SOF and other elite units, veterans, and mental-health practitioners conducted in October and November 2025 in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and the Dnipropetrovsk region. Identities have […]
A new publication has been issued that maps the progress of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research from January 2015 through June 2025. The pub identifies overlaps and gaps in specific areas as well as highlights areas that received the most-focused […]
By How Miller. Imagine, if you will, how excited I was to be invited to tour the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center (JSOMTC) on my trip to Fort Bragg. Training has evolved tremendously since I became a 91B4S Special […]
The 24th Special Operations Wing launched the Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development, a program designed in cooperation between the U.S. Air Force and the University of Alabama-Birmingham to develop and provide advanced standardized training to special operations […]
By Kayla Hocker. Green Berets from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are assisting medical personnel at Madigan Army Medical Center, amid the COVID-19 pandemic April 14, 2020. For two weeks, Special Forces Medical Sergeants (18D) have […]
Watch a four minute long video about the Special Operations Combat Medic (SOCM) Course conducted by the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center and School. (May 21, 2019). SOCM Overview 2019
This SARC video explains the job and responsibilities of the Navy Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman. The SARC has to perform as a medical provider and as a warrior. They deploy with Navy and Marine special operations units. Watch the two-minute […]
ISTC SOF Medic Course – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has a number of special operations related courses that are conducted at a school in Pfullendorf, Germany. One of these courses conducted at the NATO International Special Training Center […]
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