Surrounded by high fences at Fort Bliss, classic hip hop by the group House of Pain blasts from the speakers inside a shoot house. The structure resembles a human-sized maze where Soldiers, not mice, ...

The National Fire Academy (NFA) is opening the application window for its Special Operations Program Management and Leadership course, designed to strengthen leadership in fire service special ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the eight years since the Pentagon opened previously closed special operations jobs to women, just four have entered the ...

Special Operations Command should more closely study data on training incidents and spend more time observing high-risk, noncombat operations to better mitigate accidents involving its elite forces, a ...

A recent report recommends U.S. Special Operations Command take various actions to reduce high-risk training injuries and deaths, which account for the bulk of non-combat accidents. Released this ...

Special operations forces deploy around the world in high-risk missions. And the troops that fall under Special Operations Command experience a high rate of serious and sometimes deadly accidents ...

It is said that no 30-minute gym routine prepares you for a day of special operations selection training. When challenged with running, rucking, swimming, high-repetition calisthenics and obstacle ...

Special tactics operators communicate with a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to 437th Airlift Wing during Mission Generation Exercise 23 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 5. (Tech. Sgt. Carly Kavish/Air Force) ...

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain We all have fears, and for some people, those fears can be debilitating. For a Special Operations trooper, giving in ...

Students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center who are studying Chinese can also practice calligraphy as an extracurricular activity.(Patrick Bray/Army) Fewer than half of all Army ...