Night fell over the desert. U.S. Air Force aircraft soared overhead, lowering their ramps and emptying their cargo into the night sky. Vehicles were heavy dropped on pallets while operators assigned to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta parachuted out into the darkness, conducting a military free-fall jump. Hitting their assembly area below, the operators quickly got […]
Murphy’s Law in stores now!
With the publication of my memoir, I was again looking through some old photographs today from trips to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Europe, and elsewhere while recalling one mind boggling story after another. What a wild and weird ride it has been. When it came time to write my own book, I sifted through […]
Marine Recon vs. American Viet Cong
Corporal Charles House led his Marine Recon patrol through thick undergrowth under the jungle canopy forty feet above. The country was Vietnam and the year was 1968. Team Dublin City had been inserted three days prior, North of Phu Bai to reconnoiter the area for signs of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troop buildups, with a […]
Murphy’s Law: My Life in Special Operations and Investigative Journalism
People have been asking me for years to write a book about myself, something I resisted doing for a long time. I always figured I was a little to young for that (now at the ripe old age of 34) and also thought that I wouldn’t have much to say. After meeting with a publisher […]
TigerSwan: Private security contractors as agents provocateur at Standing Rock
It was early afternoon on October 11th, 2016 when TigerSwan’s program manager, retired Delta Force Sergeant Major John Porter, met with Silverton’s owner, Carl Clifton, inside a hangar at the Mandan Municipal Airport. The hangar was initially used by Silverton security as a clandestine office for their intelligence cell that collected information on the protesters, […]
Tesla’s Death Ray Discovery Channel show
Former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Jack Murphy stood in the basement of a corner building in Belgrade, Serbia and stared at a “death ray.” At least, a drawing of one. The sketch, pulled from a shelf in an environmentally controlled room, was buried in row after row of documents — some never before seen […]