Do Special Forces Operators Really Have GPS Chips Implanted in Their Bodies?
Hollywood often portrays elite soldiers carrying secret tracking devices implanted beneath their skin, allowing commanders to locate them an...
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20 of 227 episodesOperation Eagle Claw: The Special Forces Disaster That Changed Everything
In April 1980, the United States launched a secret mission deep inside Iran to rescue 53 American hostages held in Tehran. Operation Eagle C...
Inside Delta Force Selection: What Does It Actually Take to Get Selected?
Delta Force is one of the most secretive special operations units in the world, and simply reaching its selection process generally means a...
Operation Entebbe: The 90-Minute Raid That Changed Hostage Rescue
In 1976, more than 100 hostages were being held thousands of miles from Israel at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Israeli planners faced extraordi...
Green Beret to Civilian: Rod Graham's Journey After Special Forces
In this episode, Green Beret veteran Rod Graham sits down to talk through his time in Army Special Forces and what came after leaving that w...
The Angostura Files-Colombian special forces
For years, the second-most-wanted man in the Western Hemisphere ran a rebel state from inside the Amazon, protected by two borders and a gov...
From Sensor to Weapon: The Small Drone Joins the Team
Imagery released Sept. 17 showed Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, preparing an explosive pa...
Dude 44’: How Air Force PJs and SEAL Team 6 Elements Helped Pull an F-15E Crew Out of Iran
After an F-15E Strike Eagle nicknamed “Dude 44” was shot down over Iran in April 2026, the weapons systems officer known as “Bravo” spent ro...
Behind the Uniform: Claudio Spinelli on Life in Italian Special Forces
In this conversation, we sit down with Claudio Spinelli, a veteran of Italy's special forces community, for an inside look at the world of e...
America’s New Maritime Hunters: Inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Special Missions Command
In May 2026, the United States Coast Guard announced the creation of a new Special Missions Command — a major restructuring designed to unif...
Act of Valor: Real Operators, Scripted War
Act of Valor put active-duty SEALs and SWCC crews in front of the camera and filmed live-fire training as if it were the mission. The CQB fl...
Poland Just Ran the Drill Ukraine Invented the Hard Way
late August, Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new U.S. exercise at Hohenfels: cross a simulated front, move about sixty mile...
Polar Dagger: Green Berets on an Island You Can See Russia From
mid-August, 10th Special Forces Group inserted men and ATVs by Chinook onto St. Lawrence Island as part of Operation Polar Dagger 2026. The...
Bob "The Ninja" Porras: Inside a Career in Delta Force's "The Unit"
Carlos sits down with Bob "The Ninja" Porras for a wide-ranging look back at a career spent in the world of Delta Force and "The Unit." The...
The Badge Nobody Can Take From You Twice- Navy Seals
Every insignia is a confession dressed up as a decoration. This one was built from an eagle, a pistol, an anchor, and a god’s weapon, and it...
The Death of Imad Mughniyeh: How a Car Bomb in Damascus Ended a 25-Year Manhunt
On February 12, 2008, Hezbollah’s chief of international operations, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, in an oper...
Loughgall: The Ambush That Broke the IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade
May 8, 1987, the British Army’s Special Air Service laid a deadly ambush for an IRA active service unit attacking Loughgall RUC station in C...
The Villa in Mosul: The Hunt for Uday and Qusay Hussein
July 2003, a joint task force built around Delta Force operators and the 101st Airborne converged on a villa in Mosul where Saddam Hussein’s...
De Oppresso Liber: How a Beret Became a Legend”
In 1953, a small group of Army officers started wearing an unauthorized piece of headgear in defiance of their own chain of command — and it...
Seventeen Seconds Near Ramadi: The Delta Force Rescue That Ended Without a Shot
In June 2004, A Squadron of Delta Force executed one of the cleanest hostage rescues of the early Iraq War, freeing four captives in roughly...