Meet the Green Beret Legends Who Inspired the Movie '12 Strong' Mark Nutsch and Bob Pennington are Army veterans who served as part of the ODA 595 team sent into Northern Afghanistan in the...
NY Man Accused of Fabricating Decorated Green Beret Military Career Guardians of the Green Beret said they started probing Wright after receiving tips from Internet users.
Niger Officials, Pentagon at Odds Over Ambush That Killed 4 US Troops Nigerien officials and villagers have given accounts of the ambush that are at odds with the Pentagon's initial version.
Air Force Special Operations Forces Train for Next Dynamic Battlefront From engaging in firefights to confined space rescue, the goal for special operators will be to balance all demands put on...
Report: Green Beret Killed in Niger May Have Been Executed The account of two villagers in Niger raises the possibility that Johnson was captured in the Oct. 4 ambush before being...
Guard Soldiers Win Best Ranger for First Time in Competition's History A National Guard team has won the Army's Best Ranger competition for the first time in its 33-year history, the service...
Col. James 'Nick' Rowe: Profile Green Beret James "Nick" Rowe turned his Vietnam POW experiences into survival training for others.
Ranger School Considers Going Co-Ed The Army is addressing the specifics of the plan to allow female soldiers to join infantry battalions and to make the Ranger...
Hurried Response to Benghazi Attack Came Too Late Special Forces were ordered to Benghazi as attacks began on the U.S. consulate, but the units never left staging areas.
Green Beret Group Lobbies Against Gun Control More than 1,100 former and current Green Berets have put their names to a letter condemning any efforts to restrict gun...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...