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Despite the skill of the pilots and the quality of the platform, helocasting can be harrowing.

“Can I jumpmaster dressed like this” I asked? I was clad in stonewashed jeans (hey it was the 90s), cowboy boots and a black leather jacket.

If someone tells you he has film of a Green Beret, dressed like James Dean and wearing a motorcycle helmet, doing jumpmaster duties in a C-130, he may be telling the truth!

An A-10 takes off on a highway in Alpena, Michigan, August 5, 2021. US Air Force/Master Sgt. Scott Thompson The US military is preparing for a

Responsibility because we maintain the air bridge, we maintain the links to dohar and we control the airport with our combat controllers. thats the air force teams that actually run the airport properly. so we have more lift capacity than just about everyone. when we brought that air bridge to descend down into the karzai airport, it became our responsibility. and its better that its under our control because our nato allies know how to integrate with us, chartered jets can fly in there. we have...

On this week's podcast SOFREP senior editor and SOFREP Radio host Steve Balestrieri talks with Dan Schilling Air Force Combat Controller (CCT) veteran,

Navy SEALs are refocusing to fight China and Russia. Heres what current and former members say theyre up against. insider@insider.com (Stavros Atlamazoglou) © US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Navy SEAL candidates during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, January 23, 2018. US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Naval Special Warfare Command is making strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition. To take on new more capable foes - na...

US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Naval Special Warfare Command is making strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition. To take on new more capable foes — namely Russia and China — the command is retooling its forces to apply old skills to new challenges. Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team 6, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Commands strategic shift fro...

Share This: Navy SEAL candidates during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, January 23, 2018. US (Photo by Abe McNatt, U.S. Navy) Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team Six, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Command’s strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition against near-peer competitors, such as Russia and China. A Sea Change SEAL Qual...

CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images As the threat from the Soviet Union declined in the early 1990s, a new challenge for the US arose in the Middle East. The first Gulf War was a textbook conventional war, but it featured an array special-operations missions that helped secure victory. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the US military shifted its focus from Russia to the Middle East. In August 1990, Saddam Husseins Iraq invaded neighbo...