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Hasan Piker: "Yeah, like those two SEALs that tripped and fell off the fu**ing ladder and drowned in the Red Sea." Their names are Chief Special Warfare Operator Christopher Chambers, and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Nathan Gage Ingram. Chambers fell into the water as he tried to board a vessel amid rough seas. Ingram immediately entered the water after him in an effort to rescue his teammate. Burdened by heavy body armor and tactical equipment, both SEALs were unable to return to the surface, and we're pronounced dead shortly after.
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One of the boldest missions in the history of American special operations. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, US forces executed Operation Absolute Resolve: a nighttime raid into Caracas that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. After months of CIA pattern-of-life work and rehearsals on a full-scale replica of the compound, President Trump gave the go-ahead once weather cleared. More than 150 aircraft first suppressed Venezuelan air defenses. Then MH-60 Black Hawks and MH-47 Chinooks from the Army’s 160th SOAR, the Night Stalkers, flew in at roughly 100 feet, carrying Delta Force operators and FBI personnel to the fortified site at Fuerte Tiuna. Delta operators breached under fire, moved through the building in about three minutes, and intercepted Maduro before he could seal a steel safe room. Officials said he and Flores were in custody within five minutes of the door being blown. One US helicopter was hit and several American troops were wounded, but none were killed. Venezuelan and Cuban security personnel died in the fighting. The assault force extracted under covering fire, reached the USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean, and later transferred the couple toward US courts on narcoterrorism and drug-trafficking charges. The raid was the highest-risk US snatch operation since Abbottabad: Night Stalker aviation plus Delta speed, backed by a joint air armada and long intelligence work. It ended Maduro’s hold on power in a matter of hours and immediately raised hard questions about what comes next for Venezuela. Whatever the politics, the units that flew the helicopters and cleared the compound did what they train for: low, dark, fast, and lethal.
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Vehicle drop at night from a C-17. Absolutely insane to watch.
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The Delta Force rescue of Roy Hallums. On November 1, 2004, gunmen stormed a compound in Baghdad’s Mansour district and seized American contractor Roy Hallums along with several colleagues. Hallums, who worked for a company supplying food to Iraqi forces, vanished into a nightmare that would last 311 days. For months his family had almost no proof he was alive, until a January 2005 video showed him bound, bearded, and pleading with a rifle at his head. Other hostages were released, but Hallums was not. His captors demanded $12 million. He was shuffled between safe houses, beaten, and eventually sealed in a cramped concrete cell under the floor of a farmhouse south of Baghdad, surviving on air through a narrow tube. The break came in early September 2005. Intelligence work, detainee interrogations, and the quiet work of analysts and operators finally produced a location. On the morning of September 7, Delta Force operators lifted off in 160th SOAR helicopters and hit a farmhouse in the Triangle of Death, about 15 miles south of the capital. The kidnappers had already fled. Inside, the team found no obvious basement. Then they discovered a hatch hidden beneath a freezer. They broke through. An operator dropped into the darkness, looked at the bound, disoriented man inside, and asked the only question that mattered: “Are you Roy?” “Yes.” “Jackpot.” Hallums and an Iraqi hostage were pulled from the hole. A Delta operator pressed a small American flag patch into Hallums’ hand, and after more than ten months underground, he was free.
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The notorious "Buddy Brick" drill at the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer School. Two candidates must move a brick across the bottom of the pool, but the brick can only be moved when two people are touching it. One person must remain at the bottom while the other surfaces for air.
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Delta Force and 160th SOAR conducting an urban training operation in Los Angeles. Few pilots possess the skill to land a helicopter at night in a parking lot surrounded by trees and light poles. But for the 160th, this is just another night at the office.
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Up close and personal with the newest model 160th SOAR Little Bird, the AH-6R.
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160th SOAR MH-6 Little Birds skyscraper hopping in downtown Los Angeles.
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Leo Prinsloo. Former Captain in the South African Police Service Special Task Force, which is the country’s equivalent of the SAS, involved in everything from counterterrorism to security details for two US presidents and the Queen of England. After leaving the service, he became a tactical training instructor and took on part time work as an armed security escort in Pretoria. On April 22, 2021, on the N4 highway in Pretoria, his cash in transit vehicle was ambushed by a heavily armed gang who opened fire and began a high speed chase. Prinsloo immediately took evasive action, weaving through traffic, ramming one of the attack vehicles, absorbing multiple rounds through the bulletproof glass, and driving himself and his partner out of the kill zone. When the vehicle eventually stopped, he grabbed his rifle, exited the truck, and set up an ambush of his own. The robbers saw him kneeling down to take aim and fled without taking a single rand (dollar). His partner Lloyd Mtombeni was on only his fourth day on the job. The dashcam footage went viral worldwide, and tens of millions of people watched it. Prinsloo downplayed his actions and said the real heroes are the cash in transit workers who face these risks every day.
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Footage of former British 22 SAS operator Christian Craighead during the DusitD2 hotel complex terrorist attack on January 15, 2019. His actions were captured on camera and quickly spread worldwide. People began referring to him as "Obi-Wan Nairobi."
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JUST IN: Footage from Wednesday night showing 160th SOAR Little Birds and Black Hawks deploying Tier 1 operators (likely Delta Force) via fast rope to St. Luke Medical Center in Pasadena, CA. This was likely a training operation in preparation for the upcoming World Cup.
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