Spetsnaz HD - Fearsome Russian Special Forces. United States Army — #OAFNation. The US Army Intelligence Support ActivityBuild-up In 1981 the Intelligence Support Activity began to immediately select new operators, growing from FOG's 50 people to about 100.
United States Marine Corps — #OAFNation. Individual Training Course Marines selected for assignment as Critical Skills Operators or Special Operations Officers attend Individual Training Course (ITC), a nine-month program that builds multidimensional operators capable of operating across the full spectrum of special operations, and aware of the strategic context in which they operate.[10] ITC uses a building block approach; the training rigor will systematically increase to mimic the complexity and stresses of combat.
During ITC students are under constant observation from the instructors as well as their peers. ITC is broken down into four training phases: Phase 1 Phase 1 trains and evaluates students in the basic skill sets required of all special operators. Phase 2. Truth — #OAFNation. So here's the deal: once upon a time a rock careening through the cosmos drifted close enough to a massive, naturally occurring instance of nuclear fusion to cook up an atmosphere and spawn organic consciousness, all so we could bear witness to the magnitude of existence.
Over the course of time, our species has managed to create a series of clever, albeit counterproductive, ironically self-induced distractions to keep ourselves busy - mechanisms that ultimately (and perhaps explained more poignantly) were designed to intentionally convolute the human experience; to proliferate the "lowest common denominator" societal structure; to promote mediocrity; to dumb us down. Distractions like geopolitics, cyclical consumer debt, bipartisanship.
Sovereignty. Financial derivatives. International organizations. Mithraic mysteries. Double-faced Mithraic relief.
Rome, 2nd to 3rd century AD (Louvre Museum) The Mithraic Mysteries were a mystery religion practised in the Roman Empire from about the 1st to 4th centuries AD. The name of the Persian god Mithra (proto-Indo-Iranian Mitra), adapted into Greek as Mithras, was linked to a new and distinctive imagery. Writers of the Roman Empire period referred to this mystery religion by phrases which can be anglicized as Mysteries of Mithras or Mysteries of the Persians;[1][2] modern historians refer to it as Mithraism,[1] or sometimes Roman Mithraism.[3][4] The mysteries were popular in the Roman military.[5] The Romans themselves regarded the mysteries as having Persian or Zoroastrian sources.
Rock-born Mithras and Mithraic artifacts. The name Mithras[edit] Related deity-names in other languages include Iranian "Mithra" and Sanskrit "Mitra" are believed to come from an Indo-Iranian word mitra meaning "contract, agreement, covenant".[24] Iconography[edit] The banquet[edit] Recommend Reading. You’ve been asking for book recommendations so we put our heads together and came up with a good starter list.
Coalition SOF. Allied SOF Afghanistan We think it’s important to include our SOF partners from around the world.
The point of this section is to educate the public and honor these units in a positive way. If you notice we are missing something or want to send us a cool picture or video than please use the Comms Check portal to fire us off any information you want to share. MARSOC And Recon. Air Force Special Operations Command: Air Commandos. On the wall of the Command Chief’s office at the 1ST Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, hang a Spartan spear and shield, as well as the mask and sword of the Persians the fought.
They were hung there by a PJ, Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez when he assumed the billet of Command Chief. They are there to provide a visual reminder of the Command Chief’s philosophy: YOU HAVE TO RESPECT YOUR ENEMIES. “If we fail to respect who they are, what they do and how they execute it, we’re going to come out losing. That’s why I say respect the enemy.” About USASOC. The United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) is the unified command structure in which individual Army Special Operations units such as Rangers, Special Forces, 160th Special Operations Aviation, Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, and various support elements are housed under.
The JFK Special Warfare Center and School is also part of USASOC, and contains various Special Forces schools and courses such as the Special Forces Qualification Course. Note that Special Mission Units such as Delta Force are not a part of USASOC but rather falls in under JSOC. Naval Special Warfare Command. Naval Special Warfare (NSW) is comprised of approximately 8,900 total personnel, including more than 2,400 active-duty Special Warfare Operators, known as SEALs, 700 Special Warfare Boat Operators, also known as Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC), 700 reserve personnel, 4,100 support personnel and more than 1,100 civilians.
Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC or “WARCOM”) is a component command of the United States Special Operations Command (US SOCOM). WARCOM is headquarterd in San Diego, Calif. and leads the Navy’s special operations force and the maritime component of SOCOM. US SOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla. NSW Groups command, train, equip and deploy components of NSW Squadrons to meet the exercise, contingency, and wartime requirements of the regional combatant commanders, theater special operations commands and numbered fleets located around the world. Our Mission Commander’s Key Pillars Commander’s Intent.
A Word on Food, Combat and Happy Soldiers. A Word on Food, Combat and Happy Soldiers I’m French, specifically from the Somme, as any illuminated French major worth his/her salt should/would have guessed from the pen name.
With that and the fact that I do have a certain relationship within various military communities, there is one thing that I have really come to “know” about anything at all. A well fed troop is a happy troop. And happy troops tend to win. And so as I stand here, cooking, I want to send a shout-out to all those poor bastards on some long forgotten FOB freezing, roasting, or any other form of the countless miserable conditions that make up your average grunt’s bread and butter. Like this: Like Loading... A Word on Food, Combat and Happy Soldiers.