Here is a great question from a hard-working, spec-ops candidate preparing for Army Special Forces: I'm training ... If you are not familiar with using a compass, take a course, ask a few Eagle ...

Getting ready for Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS ... Know how to read a map and use a compass. 5. Ruck running SFAS is all about time and moving to your points quickly.

(Staff Sgt. Anthony Bryant/U.S. Army) U.S. special operations forces’ ability to fight in the Arctic has atrophied over the last two decades, Satterfield and Jensen wrote, and troops need a ...

Due to the nature of their training and mission sets, Army Special Operations Forces are becoming leaders ... to by staying off roads and using only a compass and a map. At each point they had ...

A soldier from the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School checks a compass while completing a land navigation course during Special Forces Assessment and Selection near ...

America honors two intertwined symbols: the U.S. Army's founding 250 years ago in 1775 and Flag Day. Both emerged from the Continental Congress in the 1770s, both ...

The U.S. Army is considering cutting 10 to 20 percent of their special operation forces, according to Capitol Hill officials and a former top commander of the service’s elite forces. Kenneth ...

U.S. Army Special Forces didn’t exist in the way we know them until 1952. “Special Forces traces its lineage to the First Special Service Force (FSSF), constituted on July 5, 1942 ...