Before Green Berets eat snakes and carry out guerrilla warfare around the world, they must all pass the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Assessment and Selection, or SFAS. It’s the first part of the Special Forces pipeline. Unlike late training, the goal of SFAS is not to teach students new skills or equipment but to stress their ability to perform at a high level, both physically and mentally.
The Soldiers selected at the end of SFAS move on to the formal portions of the Special Forces Qualification Course (Q course), where soldiers learn the fundamentals of being a Green Beret..
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The Defense Department will soon kick off a new “challenge” related to its Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) as officials look to bring additional vendors into the mix, according to the officer overseeing the initiative.
The U.S. military has been conducting GIDE events for several years, but the pace has picked up recently as Pentagon leaders prioritize capabilities that will enable a warfighting construct known as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), which seeks to more seamlessly connect the data streams of the U.S.
Good night, USS Tarawa; Let angels sing thee to thy rest.
The decommissioned amphibious assault ship was sunk on July 19. as part of this year’s Exercise Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC, according to the Navy’s 3rd Fleet.
The Tarawa is one of the largest vessels that U.S. and partner forces have sunk in nearly two decades, a 3rd Fleet news release says. The last time a ship of its class was sunk as part of a military exercise was in 2006, when the former amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood was sent to the bottom during that year’s RIMPAC.
The Army reservist who committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, killing 18 people, exhibited red flags for months before his shooting spree, but his leaders failed to act because of communication gaps between civilian and Army worlds, limited policy, and confusion over what Army authorities could legally do.
Sgt. Robert Card attacked a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine Oct. 25, 2023, opening fire on patrons. He then went to a bar in the town a few minutes later and continued firing. Card killed 18 people across the two locations and injured 13 others.
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The jointly-developed fighter is set to take its first flight in 2027, with an eye to be operational by 2035.
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Three Massachusetts lawmakers are pressing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to ground the V-22 Osprey aircraft again until the military can fix the root causes of multiple recent…
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Combining the National Guard and Reserve is a debate with over a century of precedent.
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A pressing problem the next administration faces is how to achieve concurrent fiscal and strategic renovation of America’s defense establishment.
The UK Ministry of Defence has tested its Land Laser Directed Energy Warfare (LDEW) system from a Wolfhound combat vehicle at Porton Down.