The First Ranger

While the birth of Ranger Regiment is often associated with Rogers’ Rangers and his famous rules of engagement, the first Ranger and the inspiration of those rules was born over…

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To the Shores of Tripoli – The Origin of SOCOM

While the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) wasn’t codified until 1987 after the mishandling of the Iran Hostage Crisis and years of investigation on the part of Senate Armed…

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USSOCOM: The Real History

The history of warfare is a reflection of civilization’s development, and from our current perspective the nature of war is bifurcated into “conventional” and “unconventional,” though there are other terms…

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History of the Navy SEALs
"Public Domain: Navy Seals Training by Joan Kretschmer, USN, April 2007 (DOD 070405-N-6278K-082)" by pingnews.com is marked with CC PDM 1.0

History of the Navy SEALs

You have heard of the Navy SEALs, but how much do you know about their history and what they do? The word SEAL is actually an acronym that describes the…

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Credit for Guardsmen Deployed to Southern Border
Soldiers assigned to 515th Engineer Company and 65th Military Police Company place concertina wire on a border wall in Sasabe, Ariz., on Feb. 7, 2019. (Sgt. 1st Class TaWanna Starks/Army)

Credit for Guardsmen Deployed to Southern Border

For the last few months over 2,400 National Guard Servicemembers have been deployed to the southern border in response to the state of emergency declared by President Trump. The men…

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