OP-ED | No Holiday in Cambodia for These Giant Rats Roughly the size of a domestic house cat, the African giant pouch rat has far superior olfactory receptors, making them…
ADVENTURE | Ultralight Travel Tips: Part 2 In part one of our guide on ultralight traveling, we discussed things like what to take, how to deal with…
OP-ED | The Ego and the Id(iot): Necessary Additions to the First Three Rules of Special Operations Forces There are probably as many sets of ‘Rules for Special Operations’ as there are special operators, but one set most…
OP-ED | SOFLETE Jiu Jitsu Detachment Lessons: Arm Bar From The Guard Alan beats up on Chris and talks through how to effectively get an arm bar from the guard... enjoy all…
ADVENTURE | Summer Escapes Looking to cash in your vacation days? Here are five trips worth the withdraw. Skipping town is a summer tradition.…
PODCASTS | Bottom of the Barrel 6: Wherein Doug Ponders Dead Guy Dicks Doug and Aron, together again. Le sigh.…
PODCASTS | Bottom of the Barrel 5: Wherein Aron Wants to Start a Cult Another episode of this monument to Doug's arrogance.…
PODCASTS | DIE LIVING Podcast Ep. 77 - Justin Richmond of IMPL Project Friend of Doug's Justin Richmond joins SOFLETE HQ to discuss his awesome work with the IMPL project, which provides data-driven…
PODCASTS | DIE LIVING Podcast Ep. 76 - Greg Higgs of Fab Fours Old friend (enemy?) of Doug's Greg Higgs stops by to talk about his successful offroading company, Fab Fours. He recently…
PODCASTS | DIE LIVING Podcast Ep. 75 - Carbo Returns Our favorite BASE jumper returns to regale us with stories of adventure that we're too chicken to attempt.…
OP-ED | Cycling and the Beginner’s Mind I’m a gravel racer. That means I ride for hours on dirt roads on what looks like a drop-bar…
OP-ED | American BBQ Review My name is Jed Ellis. I am a simple man who appreciates simple things. But still waters run deep. Beneath…
OP-ED | The Spy Who Loved Us - An Intelligence Operative's Rules For Survival SOFLETE launched in 2015 with a homemade website and a 90 day fitness program in a PDF. We didn’t…
NUTRITION | Real Recognize Real: A Primer on Antioxidants Antioxidant Supplements vs. Antioxidants from Food Imagine that you walk into a supplement store where you are immediately greeted by…
ADVENTURE | Ultralight Travel Tips: Part 1 From May 15 until September 20 of the past year I took a little trip all the way around the…
OP-ED | How To Enter The Civilian World As A High Mileage Veteran Transitioning out of military service and adapting to civilian life is more of a challenge to some more than it…
MINDFULNESS | Why Your Motivation Is Bull$#!t It’s dark, quiet; almost too quiet. The sun hasn’t yet broke, saving you from it’s heat for…
ADVENTURE | 7D Ranch In 1950, my grandparents bought 478 acres of Georgia farm and forest. As the sole grandchild for the first twelve…
MINDFULNESS | The 9 to 5 Deload A few months back, I had a moment where I needed to sit down and figure out what I wanted…
FITNESS | Heel Pain is a Real Pain Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common foot problems causing pain on the sole of the foot near the…
PODCASTS | Bottom Of The Barrel Pop-Up Video: Wherein Doug Has Backwoods Origins In the finest traditions of The Real World and Pop-Up Video, Brian has taken to making pithy observations about our…
OP-ED | Living & Traveling Full-Time in a Fifth Wheel This past Father’s Day, my family and I decided to leave everyone and everything we’ve known for the…
OP-ED | Nate Weber: Olympian and Subject of Best SF Deployment Picture... Ever I’m not an SF guy. Hell, I’m not even military. But one of the things I’ve admired…
PODCASTS | Bottom of the Barrel 4: Wherein Doug Has Backwood Origins Doug and Aron allow Brian to make snarky comments. Many are made. Check out Pop Up Podcast on Youtube.…
PODCASTS | Bottom of the Barrel 3: Wherein Strippers Think Aron is Gay Aron is unimpressed with Texas and Doug day drinks Yuenglings. Don't blame me for this, I'm just the editor.…