5 November 2016, East Mosul, Iraq. The compound sat in near total darkness, fog. Chief Petty Officer Marcus Reeves pressed his back against concrete still warm from the day’s heat,...
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The Yanks brought $5 million worth of equipment to the exercise. The SAS brought what they carried. The American contingent arrived at the multinational exercise facility in a convoy...
Commander Vasari stood in the combat information center of the USS Philippine Sea watching the data feed refresh every 30 seconds. He had spent 11 years in Naval Special Warfare...
What Army Rangers said after watching the SASR operate in Afghanistan for the first time. The Rangers had been in Afghanistan long enough to think they understood the standard...
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