Memorial Day preparations and programs are all going non-stop this weekend. In our small bucolic town in Central Massachusetts, our schools have all put together very nice programs to honor those members of our country who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Our high school put together a nice program where the students researched town members More »
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Remembering Marines Charles McMahon, Darwin Judge Last American KIAs in Vietnam, April 29, 1975
On this day 44 years ago, America’s involvement came to a close when North Vietnamese soldiers completed their invasion of the south and stormed the capital of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Those iconic images of Soviet-made tanks crashing thru the gates of the Presidential Palace and U.S. sailors pushing helicopters off the sides More »
The Last of the Original Frogmen, Bill Dawson Celebrates 94th Birthday
The very last of the original “frogmen”, the forerunners of the Navy SEAL teams was honored on the date of his 94th birthday amid his family, friends, and family members. Bill Dawson, who grew up in Washington D.C. was working at the D.C. Shipyard in 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was More »
Collusion? Navy Trying to Tie Gallagher Court-Martial To SEAL Team 6
The on-going court-martial of U.S. Navy SEAL Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher for killing an unarmed, wounded prisoner has taken a turn into uncharted waters. Gallagher, a very decorated SEAL with multiple deployments under his belt, is charged with stabbing to death a wounded prisoner from the Islamic State and then filming a More »
On This Day in 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur Gives the “I Shall Return” Speech
In the early, dark days of World War II, the United States military in the Pacific theater was reeling. After the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the Japanese forces began a series of invasions across the Pacific and extended their empire nearly to the edges of Hawaii. American and Filipino More »
Dr. Strangelove? Russians Claim to Have “Doomsday” Submarine Weapon
Alex Hollings, on the main NEWSREP site, penned a very intriguing piece about the latest Russian weapon, which they’re calling a “doomsday” submarine. If you’re having flashbacks to Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy masterpiece, “Dr. Strangelove”, then you’re not alone. Read on… Russia’s struggling economy may not make for a particularly effective military, but the Kremlin’s More »
Green Beret/Delta Force Operator on Submarine Op with SEALs
If any of our readers of SpecialOperations.com, don’t know who George Hand is or read him on the pages of NEWSREP, you are definitely missing out. George, or Geo as he’s known to the rest of us mere mortals is a badass of epic proportions. How badass is Geo? He’s so badass that he doesn’t More »
Operation Archery, Brit Commandos Raid Vaagso, Norway Dec. 27, 1941
After the forces of Hitler’s Nazi Germany overran most of Europe in the summer of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered that the military create a force that could carry out raids against Nazi-occupied Europe. “Enterprises must be prepared, with specially-trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down More »
Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from the Battleship Oklahoma
Book Review: On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands was a quiet place as the sun came up. Many of the sailors along Battleship Row were feeling the effects of being on liberty ashore drinking which ended at midnight. At dawn, there was a sleepy, Sunday feel to the morning, not much More »
Both Sides Got it Right, The SNL Apology Was Well Done
Former Navy SEAL Crenshaw And Davidson Take High Road By now as everyone is well aware, last week on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, one of the actors during the “Weekend Update” portion of the show, made a particularly tasteless joke at the expense of Congressman-elect Pete Crenshaw. Crenshaw a former Navy SEAL lost an eye More »
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