SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Octave Fusion (2012)
In a mission codenamed Octave Fusion, on January 24, 2012, SEAL Team Six successfully rescued an American woman and a Danish man who had been detained by Somali bandits in north-central Somalia. Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, had been abducted around the area of Galkayo three months earlier while ... FULL STORY
Operation Neptune Spear (2011)
Osama bin Laden, the founder of the al-Qaeda organization responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States, was killed by gunshot wounds to his head and chest on May 2, 2011, around 01:00 Pakistan Standard Time, in a 40-minute raid by United States special operations forces. The raid, code name Operation Neptune Spear also ... FULL STORY
Operation Dawn of the Gulf of Aden (2011)
Operation Dawn of Gulf of Aden (Korean: 아덴 만 여명 작전) was a naval operation by the Republic of Korea Navy against Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea. The operation was spurred by the pirates' seizure of the South Korean chemical tanker Samho Jewelry. In response, the South Korean government sent a destroyer and 30 ... FULL STORY
Maersk Alabama Hijacking (2009)
The Maersk Alabama hijacking was a series of events involving piracy that began with four Somali pirates seizing the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama 240 nautical miles (440 km; 280 mi) southeast of the Somalia port city of Eyl. This event ended with the Action of April 12, 2009. It was the sixth vessel in a week to ... FULL STORY
Abu Kamal Raid (2008)
The Abu Kamal Raid was an attack carried out by helicopter-borne CIA paramilitary officers from Special Activities Division and United States Special Operations Command, Joint Special Operations Command inside Syrian territory on October 26, 2008. The Syrian government called the event a "criminal and terrorist" attack on its sovereignty, alleging all of the reported eight ... FULL STORY
Operation Orchard (2007)
Operation Orchard was an Israeli airstrike on a nuclear reactor site in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria carried out just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007. The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) later confirmed that American intelligence had also indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a ... FULL STORY
Rescue of Roy Hallums (2005)
Roy Hallums was an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq on November 1, 2004. He was held in Iraq for 311 days and freed on September 7, 2005. On November 1, 2004, twenty gunmen stormed the compound where Hallums and his colleagues were working, in the upscale Mansour district of Baghdad. Hallums was taken hostage ... FULL STORY
Operation Redwing (2005)
On June 28, 2005, deep behind enemy lines east of Asadabad in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan, a very committed four-man Navy SEAL team was conducting a reconnaissance mission at the unforgiving altitude of approximately 10,000 feet. The SEALs, Lt. Michael Murphy, Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz, Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew ... FULL STORY
Seizure of Haditha Dam (2003)
FOIA request submitted to USASOC in May 2009. This section will be updated when the information is received. ... FULL STORY
Rescue of Jessica Lynch (2003)
On March 23, 2003, a convoy of the United States Army's 507th Maintenance Company and the 3rd Combat Support BN elements, led by a Humvee driven by Lori Piestewa, made a wrong turn into enemy territory and were ambushed near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River northwest of Basra, The convoy was ... FULL STORY
Al Qadisiyah Raid (2003)
On 23 March 2003, during the early stages of Operation Iraqi freedom, a task force of JSOC Special Mission Units (Delta Force and/or DEVGRU) Operators and Rangers were airlifted into action by helicopters flown by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). Their mission was to assault a suspected chemical weapons compound at Al Qadisiyah, ... FULL STORY
Objective Serpent (2003)
On 28 March 2003, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment employed the first airborne assault in Iraq to seize Objective Serpent in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
CA Fields AN/PRC-152
FORT BRAGG, NC – They may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but in the radio world of the foot Soldier, the Harris ... FULL STORY
