Stories of Special Forces Operators

Inside Delta Force Selection: What Does It Actually Take to Get Selected?

Delta Force is one of the most secretive special operations units in the world, and simply reaching its selection process generally means a candidate has already demonstr

Operation Entebbe: The 90-Minute Raid That Changed Hostage Rescue

In 1976, more than 100 hostages were being held thousands of miles from Israel at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Israeli planners faced extraordinary problems involving distan

Operation Entebbe: The 90-Minute Raid That Changed Hostage Rescue

In 1976, more than 100 hostages were being held thousands of miles from Israel at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Israeli planners faced extraordinary problems involving distan

Green Beret to Civilian: Rod Graham's Journey After Special Forces

In this episode, Green Beret veteran Rod Graham sits down to talk through his time in Army Special Forces and what came after leaving that world behind. He shares firstha

The Angostura Files-Colombian special forces

For years, the second-most-wanted man in the Western Hemisphere ran a rebel state from inside the Amazon, protected by two borders and a government that looked the other

From Sensor to Weapon: The Small Drone Joins the Team

Imagery released Sept. 17 showed Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, preparing an explosive payload on a small drone during

Dude 44’: How Air Force PJs and SEAL Team 6 Elements Helped Pull an F-15E Crew Out of Iran

After an F-15E Strike Eagle nicknamed “Dude 44” was shot down over Iran in April 2026, the weapons systems officer known as “Bravo” spent roughly 50 hours injured in the

Behind the Uniform: Claudio Spinelli on Life in Italian Special Forces

In this conversation, we sit down with Claudio Spinelli, a veteran of Italy's special forces community, for an inside look at the world of elite military operations. He w

America’s New Maritime Hunters: Inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Special Missions Command

In May 2026, the United States Coast Guard announced the creation of a new Special Missions Command — a major restructuring designed to unify elite maritime units respons

Act of Valor: Real Operators, Scripted War

Act of Valor put active-duty SEALs and SWCC crews in front of the camera and filmed live-fire training as if it were the mission. The CQB flow and small-boat work look li

Poland Just Ran the Drill Ukraine Invented the Hard Way

late August, Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new U.S. exercise at Hohenfels: cross a simulated front, move about sixty miles, and hit a target with a dro

Polar Dagger: Green Berets on an Island You Can See Russia From

mid-August, 10th Special Forces Group inserted men and ATVs by Chinook onto St. Lawrence Island as part of Operation Polar Dagger 2026. The exercise was not a photo op. I

Bob "The Ninja" Porras: Inside a Career in Delta Force's "The Unit"

Carlos sits down with Bob "The Ninja" Porras for a wide-ranging look back at a career spent in the world of Delta Force and "The Unit." The conversation covers what it ac

The Badge Nobody Can Take From You Twice- Navy Seals

Every insignia is a confession dressed up as a decoration. This one was built from an eagle, a pistol, an anchor, and a god’s weapon, and it still gets pulled off a man’s

The Death of Imad Mughniyeh: How a Car Bomb in Damascus Ended a 25-Year Manhunt

On February 12, 2008, Hezbollah’s chief of international operations, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, in an operation widely attributed to a j

Loughgall: The Ambush That Broke the IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade

May 8, 1987, the British Army’s Special Air Service laid a deadly ambush for an IRA active service unit attacking Loughgall RUC station in County Armagh, resulting in the

The Villa in Mosul: The Hunt for Uday and Qusay Hussein

July 2003, a joint task force built around Delta Force operators and the 101st Airborne converged on a villa in Mosul where Saddam Hussein’s two sons had been hiding sinc

De Oppresso Liber: How a Beret Became a Legend”

In 1953, a small group of Army officers started wearing an unauthorized piece of headgear in defiance of their own chain of command — and it eventually became one of the

Seventeen Seconds Near Ramadi: The Delta Force Rescue That Ended Without a Shot

In June 2004, A Squadron of Delta Force executed one of the cleanest hostage rescues of the early Iraq War, freeing four captives in roughly seventeen seconds with no sho

The Kill That Broke Zarqawi: How Delta and the SAS Finally Got Him

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spent years slaughtering civilians, beheading hostages, and stoking sectarian war in Iraq while slipping through every net. In June 2006 a small Delt