ENTERTAINMENT
SEALs Attend 2012 NFL Draft
NEW YORK, NY – Several SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Command and sailors from the Navy Recruiting Command attended the 77th annual NFL Draft, April 26 - 28, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City as part of a community outreach program. The event, officially called the ... FULL STORY
Act of Valor
Act of Valor features a mixed cast of actors and actual US Navy SEALs and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen. This lends some authenticity to the story of SEALs undergoing a covert operation in Yugoslavia to rescue a kidnapped CIA Officer, while also taking down terrorists targetting America. Act of Valor began as a recruitment ... FULL STORY
Surviving the Cut: Green Platoon
FORT CAMPBELL, KY – Discovery Channel’s series ‘Surviving the Cut’ follows a class through the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment’s Enlisted Green Platoon. The episode premieres at 9 p.m. CST (10 p.m. EST) on the Discovery Channel Friday, Aug. 19, This is an unprecedented glimpse of initial training that ... FULL STORY
'Transformers 3 Filmed at Hurlburt, 1SOW Included as 'Extras'
HURLBURT FIELD, FL – Optimus Prime may have said "Autobots, roll out," but it was Hurlburt Field Air Commandos, who rolled out the red carpet when the third installment of the Hollywood blockbuster asked to film here in September, 2010. Close to 50 Airmen, from Headquarters Air Force Special Operations ... FULL STORY
'One Man Army' Airs July 2011
What do you get when you pit elite military, extreme sports and law enforcement operatives against one another? One Man Army, a competition series which sees the toughest of the tough go head to head in events that would sideline regular contestants in an instant. Hosted by Mykel Hawke, U.S. Army ... FULL STORY
SAS Secret War
Major General Tony Jeapes’ book, SAS Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East, is timely and relevant book that would be of interest to all Special Forces Soldiers and anyone else interested in counterinsurgency warfare. The book details the operations of a squadron of the British 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, or SAS, in ... FULL STORY
Casting Call: Most Lethal
Spike TV is currently casting a brand new non-scripted military competition television series called Most Lethal. The show will feature 12 of the world's best Special Forces Operatives in an array of combat challenges. ... FULL STORY
Task Force Black
In 2003 the United States and their Coalition Allies invaded the country of Iraq. Allthough much of the details concerning Operation Iraqi Freedom have been depicted in more than one book, Mark Urban took a different route. He has brought to light the covert operations of the world’s most famous Regiment, Britain’s 22nd Special Air ... FULL STORY
SEALs, The US Navy's Elite Fighting Force
Mir Bahmanyar has done it again, but this time with former Navy SEAL, Chris Osman. Cowritten by the author of Shadow Warriors: A History of the US Army Rangers, SEALs provides a comprehensive look into the Navy's elite special operations force. Just like most books relating to the subject matter, SEALs begins by explaining the unit ... FULL STORY
Special Operations Forces in Iraq
Special Operations Forces in Iraq, by Leigh Neville, provides a brief, yet comprehensive overview of special operations forces (SOF) from around the world that have participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Not only does the book present a description of the various task forces operating in theater, it also discusses a number of recently declassified special operations. The book details the personal ... FULL STORY
Navy SEALs Help Jack Bauer in Fox's "24"
CAMARILLO, Calif. (NNS) - U.S. Navy SEALs battled terrorists during filming of an episode of the hit Fox Network television show "24" Aug. 12-13 at an airport in Camarillo.A group of Navy SEALs from San Diego volunteered to act as extras in the show, adding realism to a story for "24." They were accompanied by ... FULL STORY
Lions for Lambs
Movie description: Injuries sustained by two Army Ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. The movie doesn't lean to the left or right in anyway; you are basically listening to the arguments between ... FULL STORY
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
Book description:Autumn, 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English stand isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oil fields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war ... FULL STORY
Rambo VI
Rambo is back - this time in the bloodiest and most violent Rambo to date. Former Special Forces and Vietnam veteran John Rambo, is now living Thailand, down the river from where Burmese genocide is currently taking place. After a group of missionaries get captured by the Burmese, Rambo decides to assist a group of ... FULL STORY
"Kill Bin Laden...and bring back proof!" by "Dalton Fury"
Excerpt from "Dalton Fury": "In late November of 2001 forty members of the US Army's super secret counterterrorist unit known as Delta Force were sent to the Tora Bora Mountains in eastern Afghanistan to kill terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden. These Delta operators linked up with a handful of CIA operatives, Army Green Berets, British Commandos, ... FULL STORY
GEN III ECWCS
The multi-layered insulating system of the Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (GEN III ECWCS) allows the wearer to adapt to varying mission requirements and environmental conditions. ... FULL STORY
