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Barry Sadler Talks to Jimmy Dean: SOF and Sadler

November 10, 2020 Best of SOF, War Comments Off on Barry Sadler Talks to Jimmy Dean: SOF and Sadler

Barry Sadler and SOF ABOVE VIDEO Jimmy Dean talks with Sgt Barry Sadler about his tour in Vietnam, and how he feels about the Draft Dodgers. Then Barry sings SOF: Barry Sadler was an enlisted man and a Green Beret. He was a special forces medic while In Vietnam …

Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields From Executive Outcomes, Against All Odds.

October 25, 2020 Best of SOF, Security, War Comments Off on Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields From Executive Outcomes, Against All Odds.

Chapter 28 Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields By Eeben Barlow Anyone planning to fight a successful armed anti-government or terrorist campaign ought to know that one of the primary objectives (apart from causing mass enemy casualties and loss of materiel) is the denial of funds to the rebel or terrorist …

22-MILE KILL SHOT

March 1, 2019 Best of SOF, War Comments Off on 22-MILE KILL SHOT

Marines Set A New Record By Harold Hutchison From the December 2012 issue of SOF SURPRISE FOR THE TALIBAN On 12 February, 2012, some Taliban insurgents had no idea that death was coming for them. But come it did, in the form of a record-setting shot by United States Marines. …

Paratrooper: Combat Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan: Living the Dream

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Paratrooper: Following in my Father’s Footsteps By Heath Hansen, a second generation paratrooper and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. I looked up into the big, blue sky. Far in the distance, I spotted a C-130 Hercules headed towards the open grass field I waited in. For a few moments, …

U.S. Army 1971 – “The Drill Sergeant” REEL History – Vietnam Training Film

January 10, 2019 Best of SOF Comments Off on U.S. Army 1971 – “The Drill Sergeant” REEL History – Vietnam Training Film

U.S. Army 1971 – “The Drill Sergeant” REEL History – Vietnam Training Film Lionheart FilmWorks

Lt. Henry Harboard, ‘The Breaker’ Morant: the closing arguments, the request for pardon and the execution

November 4, 2018 Best of SOF, Security, War Comments Off on Lt. Henry Harboard, ‘The Breaker’ Morant: the closing arguments, the request for pardon and the execution

Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant Australian War Memorial’s Side of the Story: Better known for the manner of his death before a firing squad than what he did in life, Harry Morant is believed to have been born on 9 December 1864 at Somerset in England. Much of …

Grenada: One We Won

October 27, 2018 Best of SOF Comments Off on Grenada: One We Won

GRENADA ONE WE WON! by Robert K. Brown and Dr. Vann Spencer, from I am Soldier of Fortune SOF covers America’s victory and scores intelligence coup in Caribbean The United States invaded Grenada in 1983. “Pack up, we are going to war,” I told my then Managing Editor Jim Graves. …

Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 invasion of Grenada

October 25, 2018 Best of SOF, War Comments Off on Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 invasion of Grenada

Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 invasion of Grenada, begins. A flight of #USArmy UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters depart from Point Salines Airfield after offloading troops. Introduction Army.mil All photos are from Department of Defense files. At the end of the Vietnam War and the end of selective service, the United …