DARPA and SOCOM unveil X-76, their newest X-Plane designed to transport operators much faster than before
DARPA and the U.S. Special Operations Command just unveiled their newest X-Plane, the X-76.
SOCOM wants to use AI to better distinguish high value targets and intelligence during operations
Things get murky and confusing out in the field and important information is not always obvious on its face.
Elite forces are investing in small boats as SOUTHCOM missions take main stage
With new and better boats in the offing, the Pentagon shows every intention of continuing to intensify counter-drug ops in the Caribbean.
SOCOM’s new commander is an experienced special operations leader
As the former commander of NSWDG and JSOC, the Texas-native should prove a capable and reliable leader of the nation’s special operations forces.
SOCOM’s latest rifles embrace the 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge
The Creedmoor does a lot of things right and will likely be SOCOM’s preferred cartridge for the near future.
SOCOM has now included AI in its top-tech wish list
America’s most elite fighting forces are calling on industry to equip them with the most cutting-edge AI tools science can deliver.
SOCOM wants its secretive Long Endurance Aircraft drone to be able to launch smaller drones
These smaller drones could then expand the LEA’s surveillance mission and even allow it to act as an attack platform.
Legendary US Army Ranger William ‘Doc’ Donovan achieves very rare special operations honor
Within the U.S. special operations community, a few operators will attain such a level of respect amongst their peers that makes them living legends.
Upgrades ahead across the special operations helicopter fleet
Special operators are upgrading nearly every aspect of their helicopter fleet as they await the Army’s newest addition to the rotary wing section.
Space Force will get its own special operations element, SOCOM commander reveals
In recent testimony before Congress, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command revealed that the military’s newest service was getting its own special operations element.
SOCOM’s new OA-1K Skyraider II aircraft will make America’s elite units operating far from home more lethal
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recently received its newest attack plane, the OA-1K Skyraider II.
SOCOM and Marines will get new machine gun that breaks the mold to replace old classic
SOCOM wants a new machine guns that blends the medium and heavy machine gun types to create something novel.
Video: When the US military tried to build a Fallout armor
The TALOS program highlights the length the U.S. military is willing to go to prevail in the battlefields of the future.
US SpecOps were the vanguard of a revolution in battlefield medicine
TCCC aims to bring the number of preventable deaths in combat down to zero. But it took some time before the U.S. military adopted it.
Special Operations Command’s commando aircraft are in jeopardy
The special operations community needs the Armed Overwatch program, but now the government watchdog is doubting how many aircraft are needed.
HOW A NAVY SEAL EARNED A MEDAL OF HONOR … SAVING ANOTHER SEAL WITH A MEDAL OF HONOR
Receiving the Medal of Honor is an exceptional and rare honor that very few Americans have earned. Most Medals of Honor are posthumous, reflecting the near-impossible odds one has to surmount to earn the nation’s highest award for bravery under fire. Usually, living recipients of the Medal are so incapacitated from their wounds that they […]
Destined for the Medal of Honor: The legend of Col. Ralph Puckett
In the closing days of 2020, the Department of Defense released its 2021 Defense Budget. A voluminous document that contains the projected spending for all services for the next year, the Defense Budget also includes small tidbits of seemingly unrelated information, including proposals for awarding the Medal of Honor, the highest award for valor under […]
MACV-SOG: THE COVERT SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
If a conflict in U.S. history ever came with baggage, it has to be the Vietnam War. Although the service and actions of the millions of Americans who fought in Southeast Asia have been slowly recognized, the unpopularity of the war at the time, and for many years after, left a scar in American society. […]
ST IDAHO: THE SPECIAL FORCES TEAM THAT VANISHED IN THE JUNGLE
Southeast Asia, May 1968. A special operations team inserted into Laos for a covert operation. The men of ST Idaho, two Americans and four South Vietnamese indigenous troops, were tasked with locating enemy forces and activity in the A Shau Valley, close to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Tet Offensive earlier that year had caught U.S. […]
US SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNITS TO TAKE ON CHINESE DISINFORMATION
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has created a new joint task force to fight against Chinese information operations in the Pacific. Army General Rickard D. Clarke, the commander of SOCOM, revealed the new task force during a testimony to the Armed Services Committee. In an increasingly inter-connected world where news (fake and real) shapes […]
SPECIAL FORCES DEPLOY TO MOZAMBIQUE TO HELP AGAINST ISIS
The Pentagon has sent Special Forces teams in Mozambique to train the country’s security forces against an insurgent terrorist threat. The Green Berets from the 3rd Special Forces Group have deployed in the African country to train the country’s special operations forces in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Their Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) is expected to last two months. […]
‘BROTHERS OF THE CLOTH’ IS A MUST-READ DELTA FORCE MEMOIR
Brothers of the Cloth, a new book about the lives and experiences of several legendary Delta Force operators is coming out soon. Written by Sandboxx News’ own George E. “Geo†Hand IV, “Brothers of the Cloth” isn’t your usual military or special operations memoir. Instead of focusing on just the author, the book goes over the […]
SEAL TEAM 6 OPERATOR BECOMES SENIOR ENLISTED LEADER FOR ALL SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNITS IN PACIFIC
US special operations units in the Indo-Pacific have gotten a former SEAL Team 6 operator as their new enlisted boss. The Pentagon chose Command Master Chief (SEAL) David L. Isom as the new command senior enlisted leader for the U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC). Command Master Chief Isom will be replacing Command Master Chief (SEAL) Timothy […]
SOCOM’s Armed Overwatch Program looks like a blast from the past
This might be the year when the first special operations armed overwatch aircraft actually fly. During a virtual event at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Lieutenant General James Slife, the commander of the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), stated that the long-awaited Armed Overwatch Program will probably see its first demonstration flights this year. […]
CSM JACK JOPLIN, CELEBRATED DELTA FORCE WARRIOR, DIES AT 82
Command Sergeant Major Jack G. Joplin, a legendary Army Special Forces and Delta Force operator who participated in two of the most famous rescue operations in special operations history has died. CSM Joplin passed away last week at the age of 82. Joplin spent more than three decades in the Army and continued to serve […]