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United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)

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USASOC is the unified command structure in which individual Army Special Operations units such as Rangers, Special Forces, 160th Special Operations Aviation, Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, and various support elements are housed under. The JFK Special Warfare Center and School is also part of USASOC, and contains various Special Forces schools and courses such as the Special Forces Qualification Course.

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What Trump’s $700 Billion in the Defense Budget Pays For

What Trump’s $700 Billion in the Defense Budget Pays For

By Special Operations | March 30, 2018 Air Force, Air Power, Army, Coalition SOF, Military Aviation, Navy, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM, USMC, Weapons

The new omnibus $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump signed last week, the Pentagon’s budget rose to the most in their history, $700 billion. The military budget approved on Friday is packed with funding for new weapons as well as upgrades for older systems. On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump has privately floated the More »

Veterans Behind Bars, Finding Support in Special Cell Blocks

Veterans Behind Bars, Finding Support in Special Cell Blocks

By Special Operations | March 29, 2018 Admin, Air Force, Army, History, Navy, SOFREP News, USMC

The Monroe County Jail outside of Rochester, NY has a special veterans’ housing unit and is one of about 80 different pods across the country. Rochester’s opened in September and the goal is to put the veterans in a different setting where they are more likely to feel in a military setting. That is hoped More »

US Military Tells Disabled Vet He Owes $15,000 in Separation Pay

US Military Tells Disabled Vet He Owes $15,000 in Separation Pay

By Special Operations | March 29, 2018 Admin, Army, SOF, SOFREP News

Darrell “Smitty” Smith is being told that the $15,000 “Special Separation” pay that he received more than 25 years ago has turned into a loan. And now that he is 100 percent disabled due to numerous ankle and back surgeries from his time in service, he may lose his home and his boxing gym where More »

Multiple Military Bases in DC Area Sent Suspicious Packages

Multiple Military Bases in DC Area Sent Suspicious Packages

By Special Operations | March 27, 2018 Admin, Army, SOF, SOFREP News, Terrorism, Weapons

The FBI is investigating the sending of multiple suspicious packages to military bases and CIA HQs in the Washington D.C. area, officials stated on Monday. The FBI had taken custody of the packages that one official stated was more than 10 of these crude devices. They said packages were sent to the CIA, Fort Belvoir More »

Elvis Presley Helps the USS Arizona Memorial With a Benefit Concert

Elvis Presley Helps the USS Arizona Memorial With a Benefit Concert

By Steve Balestrieri | March 26, 2018 Admin, Army, History, Navy, SOF, Television Review, USMC

On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley did a benefit concert for the Arizona Memorial which raised over $62,000 and helped to restart public funding for the war memorial that so many Americans visit every year. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States quickly rebuilt its facilities there and raised More »

Trump to Limit Transgender Troops Service? New Policy Expected Friday

Trump to Limit Transgender Troops Service? New Policy Expected Friday

By Special Operations | March 23, 2018 Admin, Air Force, Army, Navy, SOF, SOFREP News, USMC

The Trump Administration has a new policy on the sticky subject of transgender troops that will likely restrict their service. The policy is slated to go into effect on Friday and comes after months of court challenges and talks inside the Defense Department. In August, President Trump sent Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a memo ordering More »

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, Last Large Cavalry Clash of the Civil War

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, Last Large Cavalry Clash of the Civil War

By Steve Balestrieri | March 22, 2018 Admin, Army, History, SOF, US SOCOM

The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, sometimes known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road was the last major cavalry engagement of the Civil War. The Union cavalry called it colloquially “Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle”. It took place in what is now northeastern Fort Bragg, NC.  Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Wade Hampton and MG More »

New Balance Strikes Deal To Manufacture Shoes for the Military

New Balance Strikes Deal To Manufacture Shoes for the Military

By Special Operations | March 22, 2018 Admin, Air Force, Army, Fitness, Gear Review, Navy, SOF, SOFREP News, USMC

New Balance announced it had reached a $17.3 million agreement to make sneakers for the military. The Boston-based shoe brand will make the new 950v2 specifically for the military. “This is a great win for the preservation and growth of American manufacturing jobs,” says Rob DeMartini, President & CEO at New Balance. The brand currently More »

Teacher Who Called the Military, “the Lowest of the Low” Fired

Teacher Who Called the Military, “the Lowest of the Low” Fired

By Special Operations | March 22, 2018 Admin, Air Force, Army, Navy, SOF, SOFREP News, USMC, Videos

The teacher from California who called members of the U.S. military, “the lowest of our low” in a video captured by one of his students has been fired. As soon as the video hit social media, it triggered criticism from across the nation including the White House. The El Rancho Unified School District held a More »

Remembering Charles “Snake” Hosking Jr. MOH,  March 21,1967

Remembering Charles “Snake” Hosking Jr. MOH,  March 21,1967

By Steve Balestrieri | March 21, 2018 Army, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Charles Ernest Hosking Jr. was a career soldier who fought as a U.S. paratrooper in World War II and then was one of the original Green Berets when the unit was created in 1952. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for Valor in the Republic of Vietnam for his actions on March 21, More »

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War Story by Jim Morris Is the Definitive Special Forces Book on Vietnam

War Story by Jim Morris Is the Definitive Special Forces Book on Vietnam

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  This book is dedicated to anybody whoever died for something he believed in, whether he was right or not. The difference between a fairy tale and a war story, is that a fairy tale starts out with “Once upon a time,” and a war story starts out with, “This is no shit.” Before you turn a page in “War Story” and just read that small two-paragraph introduction you are hooked. Morris begins his book with a recurring dream when in a firefight in Vietnam, his left nut was shot off, which actually happened. But in his dream, which he had for years after coming home, he'd be killed in some ugly grotesque way, but one night he finally made it in his dream. He killed the enemy soldier and was finally at peace. As he says in the book, he was finally at peace and could go home now. Morris’ book is a page-turning, can’t put it down look at one man’s experience in Vietnam while a Green Beret in the 5th Special Forces Group. It is arguably, (here there is no argument) the finest book on Special Forces in Vietnam. Morris loved Vietnam, the people especially the Montagnard mountain MORE »

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