Read part one HERE and part two HERE. An excerpt from the upcoming book, “Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide” by Brandon Webb and John David Mann: It’s nighttime over the Persian Gulf, summer of 1995. The four of  us—pilot, copilot, another crewman, and I—have been out in our SH-60 Seahawk helicopter doing sonar ops. It’s been […]

Here is a small excerpt from Chapter 2 of “The Killing School” by Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL sniper instructor turned media CEO. Chapter 2: Born to Shoot As a young’n, I’d go sit in the woods and wait a spell. I’d just wait for the rabbits and squirrels, ’cause sooner or later a squirrel […]

Check out this exclusive book excerpt from Brandon Webb’s book, “Total Focus- Navy SEAL’s guide to making decisions under pressure.” In this book, Brandon Webb takes you though his decision-making process which he used as a Navy SEAL sniper and now as the CEO of Hurricane Group, Inc. Over his four deployments as a Navy […]

I lost everything I owned three years after leaving the Navy, including my marriage. Then I picked myself up, dusted off, and built a new life outside of my service. It was a tough, lonely, and sometimes scary, road. As we are experiencing one of the largest migrations of combat veterans to civilian life since […]

When I was on active duty as a Navy SEAL, prior to the terrorist attacks of September, 11th, 2001, Memorial Day didn’t really matter to me. It does fourteen years later. Back then, the machinery that is the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was just getting oiled-up and the gears getting swung into action. Today, […]

An excerpt from Brandon’s book, “Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide” by Brandon Webb and John David Mann: Kamal told me that he had been terrified of water his whole life. A few times, when he was living in the Dominican Republic, he went kite-surfing. He always wore a life jacket, but that didn’t make […]

My friend Glen (Navy SEAL/CIA, KIA in Benghazi, Libya in 2012) and I departed from Peoria, Illinois and started to pick up ice climbing through 4,000 feet just after losing communications with departure control. Fun meter pegged. I had purchased my first airplane in 2003, a little 1980 Cessna 172 and had this great idea […]

ARTICLE BY TAYLOR LEE OF GRITDAILY “Your mind creates these cages that hold on to the fear, you hold the key to unlock that cage.” —Brandon Webb Fear can either be paralyzing or a great motivator to drive the effort needed to achieve your goals. It’s about how you respond and overcome that fear that […]