According to the Norwegian Special Operations Forces Command, only 13 of the unit’s 317 candidates made it through the Jegertroppen course in 2014 — a 96% attrition rate that is similar to the ...

The Army opened special operations jobs to women in 2016 but only one has passed the first stage, a 24-day program designed to push soldiers to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion.

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum ...

The first female Special Forces soldier is expected to graduate from Green Beret training in July. (Staff Sgt. Mikki L. Sprenkle/Army) A female Army Green Beret candidate will graduate from the ...

When helicopters drop special-forces teams into a remote location in the middle of the night, it is now the female soldiers’ job to separate, search and interview the women and children, probing ...

Jamie Lynn Spears in “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” (Pete Dadds / FOX) Of course, in the realm of celebrity, heroism and villainy are relative terms.

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