Marines May Expand Psychological Operations with New Job Specialty The service will consider adding a new primary military occupational specialty: 0521, Military Information Support Operations...
Kristin Beck Would Love to Train 1st Female SEALs -- On One Condition The retired Navy SEAL and transgender woman estimates that 2-8 women will make it through tough Navy SEAL training each year...
Pentagon Denies US Special Forces on 'Front Lines' in Syria Photos appeared to show U.S. Special Forces troops alongside Syrian rebels, but the Pentagon denied they were on the front...
US Scrambles Fighters After Syrian Aircraft Bombed Near SpecOps Forces The U.S.scrambled warplanes against Syrian aircraft that bombed in the vicinity of American special operations forces.
Navy Has First Female Applicants for SEAL Officer, Special Boat Units Two women were in boot camp as candidates for the Navy's all-enlisted Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman program.
Man Who Posed as Navy SEAL Convicted of Making Child Porn A New Jersey man who was outed in 2012 for posing as a Navy SEAL on dating sites has been convicted of producing and...
Women In Special Ops Raises 'Genuine Concerns' The days of Rambo are over, but the men of Special Operations will still get a say on whether they want women on their small...
Carter Signals US Plans to Deploy More Troops to Iraq Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has again addressed the controversial issue of U.S. "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria.
US to Temporarily Hold Captured ISIS Leaders for Interrogation The U.S. will hold for about a month captured ISIS leaders for interrogation before turning them over to local authorities.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
