Archive for the ‘Forces Focus’ Category
Forces Focus – Special Forces – Just In Time (Russian with English subtitles)
Friday, January 31st, 2014Forces Focus -16th Air Assault Brigade
Thursday, December 26th, 2013Happy Boxing Day to our British Friends. A tip of the beret to you.
Forces Focus – SF Airborne Operations
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013Here’s some motivational video of SF and support personnel conducting airborne operations.
Thanks Karl!
Forces Focus – 3rd SFG(A) SOCP
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) Combatives Program from Fort Bragg, N.C. on Vimeo.
This video gives you an inside look at 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)’s Special Operations Combative Program.
Forces Focus – Have Ace
Saturday, December 14th, 2013Have Ace is a 2-week long training program at Eglin AFB, FL for Army, Navy and Marine SOF to provide live fire ranges and to familiarize them with AFSOC aircraft.
Forces Focus – Take A Look At The 1st Special Operations Wing
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
It Was 30 Years Ago Today
Friday, October 25th, 2013
On the morning of October 25th, 1983 America awoke to reports that our troops had invaded a small Caribbean nation named Grenada in order to liberate American medical students from danger posed by political instability. Joined by Regional Security System troops from a variety of Caribbean partner nations they swiftly overwhelmed the Grenadian and Cuban troops. While Operation Urgent Fury was in name, a joint force operation and included the use of Special Operations Forces, it highlighted many interoperability issues such as use of operational overlays and radio issues.
I was in high school when this went down and it made me want to be in the Army even more than I already did. Thankfully, over time, many of the stove pipe issues suffered by the pre-Goldwater-Nichols military were beginning to be identified when I joined a few years later. Interestingly, the operation was conducted with many systems still in use from the Viet Nam war. Our next time at bat, in Panama, saw several new weapons developed during the Reagan buildup such as the F117 stealth fighter and the Marine Corps LAV. Additionally, SOF took a much more prominent role in operation Blue Spoon.
Let us not forget the 19 Americans killed in action and the 116 who were wounded. Unfortunately, there were 24 Grenadian civilians also killed in the conflict.
Forces Focus – Special Tactics Officer
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013Do you have what it takes to become a US Air Force Special Tactics Officer?
