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5 days ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
Gentle reader, it’s 2025 and Uncle Sam has dusted off his stealth unicorns—the B‑2 Spirit bombers—and sent them on a 37‑hour marathon from Missouri to Iran, slinging 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) at Fordow and nucleus‑spinning hot spots at Natanz and Isfahan in what’s been colorfully dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer.
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5 days ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
From Kansas to Commissioned OfficerWilliam Loren McGonagle was born on November 19, 1925, in Wichita, Kansas. He spent his early years in the Midwest before relocating to California, where he graduated from high school in the Coachella Valley. With World War II raging, McGonagle joined the U.S. Navy’s V-12 officer training program and attended the University of Southern California.
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1 week ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Former Delta Force |Don Bolduc
Late Monday evening, June 16, 2025, a U.S. Air Force WC-135R Constant Phoenix lifted off from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. This aircraft, affectionately dubbed the “Nuke Sniffer,” is no ordinary bird; it’s a sentinel of the skies, designed to detect and analyze atmospheric samples for signs of nuclear activity.
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1 week ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
On the evening of June 11, 2025, at approximately 7:00 p.m., a routine training mission at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, ended in tragedy. An AH-64 Apache helicopter, operated by two seasoned pilots, crashed within the base’s expansive training area. Emergency services responded promptly, confirming the death of one pilot at the scene. The second pilot sustained minor injuries and was transported to Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, where he was treated and released the same night.
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2 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
The body of 1st Lt. Marciano Angelo Parisano, a 25-year-old U.S. Army Black Hawk pilot from Cibolo, Texas, was discovered on May 3, 2025, on the banks of the Chiquito River near Comayagua, Honduras. Parisano was off-duty on a liberty pass from Soto Cano Air Base when he was last seen alive in the early hours of the same day.
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2 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
If you ever wondered what it looks like when the gears of federal power grind into motion, look no further than Los Angeles this week. In a move that’s as subtle as a sledgehammer, over 700 active duty Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, based out of Twentynine Palms, have been mobilized to support National Guard troops as anti-ICE protests continue to roil Southern California. This is a serious matter, a whole Marine Corps battalion, boots on the ground, in America’s second-largest city.
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2 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
Europe’s Defense Budget: The Theater of the AbsurdIn the pantheon of bad habits, Europe’s allergic reaction to defense spending ranks just below chain-smoking in oxygen tents. Here we have an entire continent that’s spent decades patting itself on the back for building a utopia of social programs, all while treating its defense obligations like a gym membership—it’s technically there, but no one’s using it.
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3 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
Echoes of the Past: Hitler’s Overreach and DownfallThe parallels between Putin‘s current predicament and Adolf Hitler‘s strategic blunders during World War II are striking. Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941, violating the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, marked the beginning of a protracted and ultimately disastrous campaign.
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3 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
A Sudden Change of HeartIn a move that’s sending shockwaves through both military and civil communities, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights activist and Navy veteran.
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3 weeks ago | 
sofrep.com | Guy McCardle |Don Bolduc
The Numbers Don’t LieThe U.S. Army has pulled off a recruiting miracle. As of early June 2025, it has already signed up over 61,000 new active-duty prospective soldiers—hitting its annual goal four months ahead of schedule. This marks the earliest the Army has met its recruitment target in over a decade, a significant turnaround after missing goals in 2022 and 2023.
