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3/7 SFG Panama

AFRICOM Video Shows The Adventure of Conducting Airborne Operations

By Steve Balestrieri | March 14, 2019 Air Force, Army, Coalition SOF, History, Inside the Team Room: U.S. Army Rangers, Military Aviation, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

If you haven’t seen the video yet, during the recent “Operation Flintlock” United States Special Operations Forces conducted an airborne operation with unnamed host nation forces. The video highlights the level of training or lack thereof of some Third World nation’s airborne forces. Ask anyone from our Special Operations Forces who have conducted airborne operations More »

David  Baez, Green Beret, Sandinista Officer -Part 2

By Steve Balestrieri | February 26, 2019 Army, Coalition SOF, History, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

We recently posted the first part in an outstanding three-part series written by former Special Forces NCO Greg Walker on the story of David Arturo Baez, a former Green Beret from the 3rd Bn, 7th SFG in Panama, who left the American military, ostensibly to help his family run a coffee farm. But he instead More »

The Strange Story of David Baez, Green Beret, and Sandinista Officer

By Steve Balestrieri | February 13, 2019 Army, History, Inside the Team Room: U.S. Army Rangers, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

One of the most bizarre stories to come out about Central America was the strange saga of David Baez. Baez was born in Nicaragua but became a U.S. citizen and later a Green Beret. Baez’s father was a military officer in Nicaraguan National Guard before being executed by the military’s leader Anastasio Somoza. Baez grew More »

Don’t Poke the Bear Especially With Special Forces Troops

By Steve Balestrieri | February 12, 2019 Army, Coalition SOF, History, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM, Weapons

“And Don’t Shoot the Goddamn Beanbag Lights” One of the best perks of this position is that in trying to read all the news concerning the military and Special Operations around the globe every day, everyone now and then something triggers. And as you’re reading something having to do with 1158th Special Operations Squadron of More »

7th SFG Stemmed the Tide, Guaranteed the Peace in El Salvador

By Steve Balestrieri | January 21, 2019 Army, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

The era of the 1980s thru the mid-1990s was a great time to be a member of the U.S Army’s 7th Special Forces Group, 7th SFG(A). The unit barely escaped the ax during the post-Vietnam drawdown and survived the malaise during the Carter years, where Special Operations and specifically Special Forces was a four-letter word. More »