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The Team House Livestream and other updates

December 16, 2019 by Jack Murphy

I’ve been a bit remiss in updating my website so there are quite a few developments to mention here, including my new livestream called The Team House. Bottom line up front: I quit my job with NEWSREP back in July I now host a new livestream and podcast with my friend Dave Parke I have […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 75th Ranger Regiment, books, CIA, Dave Parke, Deckard, Green Berets, Jack Murphy, JSOC, Livestream, podcast, Rangers, SOF, Special Forces, Special Operations, The Team House, writing, youtube

Murphy’s Law: My Life in Special Operations and Investigative Journalism

April 4, 2018 by Jack Murphy

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 18B, 3/75, 3rd Ranger battalion, 5th SFG, 5th Special Forces Group, 75th Ranger Regiment, Afghanistan, autobiography, Green Beret, Iraq, Jack Murphy, journalism, journalist, JSOC, JSOC Task Force, memoir, Murphy's Law, Philippines, Ranger Battalion, sniper, sniper section, SOCOM, sofrep, Special Forces, Special Forces Weapon's Sergeant, Special Operations, Task Force, USASOC

An obscure but revealing novel about Delta Force

September 18, 2017 by Jack Murphy

In the publishing world’s search for authenticity, they often procure the names of writers who have been there and done that, but generally being a great soldier does not make one a great writer. Because of this, we end up with a slew of ghost-written mish-mashes of fictional memoirs and non-fictional novels. However, a relatively […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: A Mission for Delta, CAG, CIA, Cold War, Delta, Delta Force, Iran-Contra, KGB, L.H. Burruss, MACV-SOG, Mike Force, Special Forces, Special Operations, Tier One, Vietnam

The Light Reaction Regiment’s Trojan Horse mission in Sulu

June 20, 2017 by Jack Murphy

I sat across from a Light Reaction Regiment operator at a restaurant where we tried in vain to escape some of the humidity.  He’s smoking a cigarette while we discuss his unit and their operations.  He is a quiet man, quick to tell me that his job is to execute the mission rather than complain […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AFP, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Direct Action, High Value Target, HVT, Light Reaction Regiment, LRB, LRC, LRR, Philippines, SOCOM, SOF, Special Operations, Sulu, Trojan Horse

Liaison Control Element: US Special Forces in Marawi

June 13, 2017 by Jack Murphy

The usual breathless media reports have emerged from the Philippines latest security crisis in regards to American Special Operations units present in the area.  To be sure, the siege of Marawi has spun into a serious attack which bares some resemblance to the 2013 siege of Zamboanga.  Philippine SOF units such as the Light Reaction […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AFP, CIA, drones, ISR, LCE, Light Reaction Company, LRC, LRR, Marawi, MARSOC, Maute Group, OEF-P, OGA, Philippines, RA, Regional Affairs, SOF, Special Forces, Special Operations

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