Delta Force article disappears - at SOCOM's request
The Army quietly removed an online article about women in the elite unit (but we saved a copy for you).
Weeks after President-elect Donald Trump nominated for defense secretary an outspoken opponent of women in combat roles, the Army published online — and then quickly removed — an article making the case that women “are integral to the success” of the service’s most elite combat unit, written by one of those women.
The article about the role of women in Delta Force was dated December 2024. The High Side accessed it online on Dec. 5, but by Dec. 10 the link that led to the article was landing on a "404 page not found" placeholder.
Army Col. Allie Weiskopf, a spokeswoman for U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, told The High Side that the views of Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran whom Trump announced as his defense secretary pick Nov. 12, had nothing to do with the article’s disappearance. Rather, she told The High Side, SOCOM asked the Army to take the article offline because it had not gone through the usual staffing procedures prior to publication.
However, an Army source familiar with the article said “the article went through several security reviews” and “the author had and has the support of her immediate command.”
Delta Force is a secretive unit about which the Army publishes very little online. Suspecting that the article would be taken down, The High Side saved a digital copy, to which we link below.