A guide to new pages and major
updates.
09-01-2007
The newly revised SOC Artist Gallery is
now up and running. Be sure
to check it out! You can view and or purchase some great artwork.
IMPORTANT INFO: for all artist's, if you had a gallery in the
past
please contact SOC
directly for details on how to get a new gallery set up, and how it works...
08-27-2007
Our The Unofficial U.S. Military Service Locator has been updated ...
06-22-2007
New helpfull links cat added to Business
links section...
05-28-2007
2 New articles added to site news section...
12-21-2006
SOC gets a face lift and is updated and reorganized ...
12-19-2006
SOC Gets a brand new Guest
Book Please check it out ...
12-14-2006
Deke's
Diary gets a rewrite on the code that runs it
and many
new updates ...
10-29-2005
Billy Waugh: An Interview with a Legend by
J.M. Peterson
05-19-2004
New Page on US Navy Special Boat Teams RHIB Drop.
03-15-2004
New Page on the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades.
09-02-2003
Section on Iran uploaded. Includes Takavaran Naval Commandos
09-11-2002
New page on Navy SEALs in Operation Enduring
Freedom.
05-20-2002
New page on the brand-new Special Operations Craft
Riverine.
05-10-2002
New EC-130 Senior Hunter
page.
05-01-2002
Updated links in the US Army SFOD
Delta, Army Special Forces,
and
Army Rangers pages.
11/03/01
New links in the -SS Mayaguez
(operation) page.
11/01/01
New Art Gallery! -Dennis
Bivens
10/6/01
Wrath of God - Israeli Counterterrorism response to
the 1972 Olympic massacre
07/12/01
Lithuanian ARAS - New unit profile!
02/19/01
Irish Army Rangers - reader input/update
02/18/01
Massacre at Hue
02/17/01
LOCATORNET:
Bulletin board added to help active duty and retired SOF locate missing buddies.
New photo: Special Tactics Squadron fast ropes from 20th SOS MH-53J Pave Low IIIE
02/03/01
Tales from SOG: Dewey Canyon, 1969 - Prairie Fire!
02/01/01
Danish SOF vs. Greenpeace - includes video
01/30/01
Swedish Special Operations Forces - Photo Gallery
SOC Featured Photo Archive - (per reader request)
01/28/01
USMC Special Response Team - Unit Profile
01/21/01
Mexico - Special Operations Photo Gallery
01/20/01
Special Operations.Com Guide to International Terrorist
Organizations - Major new section!
MK23 Offensive Handgun
Founding USSOCOM
US SOF in the Persian Gulf: 1987-1989
Operation Support Democracy: Haiti, 1994
01/19/01
Austrian Special Operations Forces - Reader input added
Gendarmerie Einsatz Kommando (GEK) - new section
01/18/01
US Army Ranger COLT Teams
In Memory - ENC (SEAL) Donald L. McFaul
01/17/01
USMC Radio Reconnaissance Teams -
Overview (Microsoft PowerPoint required)
01/15/01
USMC Special Operations Training Group (SOTG)
New Featured Artist: Virgil Carter
Operation Atlas Response
01/14/01
Special Operations Forces and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
SOF Information and Publications:
01/12/01
A/MH-6 Mission Enhanced Little Bird (MELB) - Program overview
Photo: MH-6 inbound
MH-53J/M Pave Low III/IV - Program overview
US Navy SEAL photos:
Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) - photo and program overview
CONDOR - Program overview
Special Mission Radio System (SMRS) - Program update
U.S. Special Operations Forces Equipment Guide - updated
01/07/01
US Army Rangers - Brief history
01/04/01
New featured photo: SEAL Team Eight
12/20/00
Swift Boat - Photo Gallery
12/18/00
Italy's GIS - Photo added
12/17/00
In Memory - General Joseph Lickuns, US Army Special Forces
US Army Special Forces Photo Gallery
US Army Special Forces Screen Saver
New Featured Photo - USMC SRT
USMC Special Reaction Teams (SRT) - updated
12/13/00
UK Reserves - Special Forces Units
Swedish Special Operations Forces - Updated and corrected
12/11/00
New SOCChat and Club (hosted by Yahoo.Com)!
12/03/00
New photo:
Very Slender Vessel (VSV)
Operational Capabilities of the Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) - PowerPoint document
11/30/00
New! SOCStore
Swedish Special Operations Forces - New Photo Galleries
Also, if you would like to receive official Department of Defense news releases automatically via email, you can register with DOD (this is not a service of SOC).
11/28/00
Iraqi Special Operations Forces, includes:
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Overview |
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Mountain Warfare |
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Special Forces
Training |
Peruvian Special Operations Forces - Operation Chavin de Huantar
North Korean Special Operations Forces, updated to include:
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North Korean Special Operations
Forces and the Second Front |
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Special Operations Forces Overview |
Special Forces of the Indian and Pakistani Armies
Scandinavian Special Operations Forces
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces: An Overview
Slovak Republic's Special Forces
Poland's Special Operations Forces, updated to include:
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GROM - new unit profile added |
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Airborne Brigade |
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25th Air Assault |
Chinese Special
Operations Forces, updated to include:
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Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Information
Warfare (IW) |
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Airborne Forces |
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Special Operations Forces Overview |
UK - 16th
Air Assault Brigade
France - 2nd
Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment
Indonesia - SOF
Overview added
11/26/00
U.S. Navy Special Boat Units - RIB
photos from SBU-12
Malta's Maritime Squadron Rapid
Deployment Team - RDT
takes detainee during exercise (photo)
SOF in the Desert Storm SCUD Hunt
- Photo Gallery
Operation
NOBLE OBELISK - U.S. Special Forces in Sierra
Leone, 1997.
Operation
SHADOW EXPRESS
11/23/00 - Happy Thanksgiving!
Naval Special Warfare - updates and new pages!
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NSW in Action! U.S.
Navy SEAL insertion/extraction - This series
of photographs will take you through an actual
U.S. Navy Special Warfare exercise conducted
in the waters of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, during
RIMPAC 98.
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Photo: The
Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 19, 2000 — An
HH60-H Sea Hawk from the "Red Wolves" is used as a platform
for deploying SEAL team members onto a Mark V assault craft.
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Photo:
U.S. Navy SEALs during a break in desert training.
(Note: poor photo quality.)
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Updated:
U.S. Navy Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS)
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Article:
Tactical Medicine Training for SEAL Mission
Commanders, by CAPT Frank Butler, Director of
Biomedical Research at Naval Special Warfare
Command.
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Photo:
U.S. Special Forces and Republic of Korea (ROK) soldiers
conduct long-range movement and the conclusion of
a JCET.
Photo: Pusan, Republic
of Korea, Oct. 24, 2000 — U.S. Coast Guard
Port Security Unit (PSU) 313 powers a 25-foot Transportable
Port Security Boat during Exercise Foal Eagle 2000.
These boats are used to protect high-value assets
from small boat and swimmer attacks. Note:
PSU's are not Special Operations Forces, but their
specialized training and mission merits their inclusion
on this site.
Photo:
An MH-47 and MH-60 from the 160th Special Operations
Aviation Regiment (Airborne) conduct landing exercises
at sea.
Article:
Tactical Management
of Urban Warfare Casualties in Special Operations
Finnish Special Operations:
11/16/00
SOCPoll - Voting feature
added!
SOC
Guestbook - New guestbook added
Jordanian
Special Operations Forces - New page
Kyrgyzstan
Special Operations Forces - New page (not much info
yet)
Kazakhstan
Special Operations Forces - New page (not much info
yet)
Kuwaiti
Special Operations Forces - Updated
Kenyan
Special Operations Forces - New page (not much info
yet)
Maritime Squadron Rapid Deployment
Team - new photos added
11/11/00
Special Operations.Com
Art Gallery
Switzerland - Specialized
Military Training Photo Gallery
11/04/00
Norwegian
Borderguards - Major new section!
New Featured Photo: SEAL
Team TWO, Echo Platoon during VBSS ops in the
Red Sea.
U.S. Navy Special Warfare Feature:
HMAS Jervis Bay
Military
Operations in Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) - Reworked
AC-130U
Photo Gallery - 20mm vs. 25mm information corrected
Australian Special Operations and
Counterterrorism:
Canadian Combat Divers (Army)
10/28/00
Israeli
Special Forces - important announcement:
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Special Operations.Com's
Israeli section has moved to its own new independent
domain! - www.isayeret.com
check it out!
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10/26/00
Malaysian
Special Operations Forces
10/21/00
UK Special Forces - Commentary from former
SBS Marine.
Poland's GROM - Unit
patch and info added.10/14/00
AC-130
Gunship Photos - (taken at NAS Oceana, Sept 22,
2000)
10/10/00
Israeli Special Forces:
10/8/00
Finland's Utti
Jaeger Regiment
10/3/00
Norwegian Special Mission Units
- Oppklaringseskadronen (Recon)
9/30/00
MH-53J Pave Low - Photo Gallery (taken at NAS
Oceana, Sept 22, 2000)
Dallas DEA MET - New
Photos
Operation Barras - Graphic
of Assault added
Italy's Col Moschin - Photos added
Poland - Air
assault team members photo added
9/24/00
MH-47E Chinook - Photo Gallery (taken at NAS Oceana,
Sept 22, 2000)
9/23/00
MH-6J Little Bird - Photo Gallery (taken at NAS Oceana,
Sept 22, 2000)
MH-60K Black Hawk - Photo Gallery (taken
at NAS Oceana, Sept 22, 2000)
9/17/00
New section! U.S. Special
Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams!
Operation
Barras (Sierra Leone hostage rescue) - Mission
Profile
Algerian Special
Operations and Counterterrorist Forces
9/10/00
Now available! FREE - 101-page
Special Operations.Com Guide
to U.S. Special Operations Forces (note: if you
are asked for a logon and password, just click on
the "Cancel" button and the SOC Guide will
appear. You can then save it to your local hard
drive for later use.
9/4/00
US
Army Ranger School - Expanded to include all three
phases, dead links removed.
Malta - Maritime
Squadron Rapid Deployment Team
Australia - Regional Force
Surveillance Units - reader comments added
9/2/00
Swedish Special Operations Forces
- Närskydd (NSKY) - Brief new unit profile.
8/28/00
US
Marine Corps' Maritime
Special Purpose Force
8/11/00
"Critical
Analysis on the Defeat of Task Force Ranger"
(requires Adobe Acrobat)
8/5/00
Tales From SOG - All New Stories!
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Spectres Over Laos
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Never on Sunday
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I Was There
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Shot Out of Laos
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USAR 704th Chemical Co. (Recon)
USMC Direct Action Platoons (DAP)
Defining ‘Overt’, ‘Clandestine’,
and ‘Covert’ Operations (scroll
to bottom)
Swedish Coastal Rangers (updated)
Switzerland
- Canton Tactical Units
Taiwan
- Special Operations Units (brief overview)
Thailand
- Special Operations Units (brief overview)
Turkey
- Special Operations Units (brief overview)
Ukraine
- Special Operations Units (brief overview)
United
Arab Emirates - Special
Operations Units (brief overview)
UK
Special Operations Forces - Comacchio
Group (unit profile added)
Portuguese
Special Operations Forces, two
units added:
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Grupo de Operacoes Especiais (GOE) - Special Operations
Group
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Destacamento de Accoes Especias (DAE) - Special Actions Detachment
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8/4/00
New photos:
8/2/00
Recommended Reading - August-September 2000
V-22 Osprey Screen Saver
7/30/00
NVA
Through the Wire - Tales from SOG
SOG Book Review: Project Omega
French Special Ops - RAID (brief profile)
Norwegian Special Ops - HV
016 (updated)
Italian Special Ops - COMSUBIN (English profile)
Australian
Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) (brief profile)
Revised: Israeli Special Operations
Forces
7/21/00
The
CIA in Somalia, 1993
7/16/00
UDT/SEAL
Reunion Demonstration - 15 July 2000, video and
photos
7/8/00
Australian Clearance Diving Teams in East
Timor
7/4/00
Ecuador - Special
Operations and Counterterrorist Units, includes:
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GEO (Counterterrorist Unit)
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Special Forces
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Special Forces School
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Jungle Units
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Intelligence
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Jungle and Counterguerrilla
School
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Air Infantry
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Naval Infantry
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Cuba - Special
Operations Forces
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