John Stryker Meyer

The recent serious allegations of CNN broadcasting fake news aren’t new for the Atlanta-based cable network. On June 7, 1998, in an effort to compete with CBS’s popular 60 Minutes program, CNN launched a new program called NewsStand. It aired a story entitled “Valley of Death,” which alleged that 16 Green Berets and 120 indigenous troops […]

As actress Jane Fonda attends more protests, this SOFREP editorial-cartoon asks a question that runs through the minds of many Vietnam veterans: Will she ever be prosecuted for her visit to Hanoi, N. Vietnam in 1972, while the United States and its ally S. Vietnam were fighting communist forces in Southeast Asia? She was photographed sitting on […]

The names of two U. S. Army Green Berets awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously during the Vietnam War were inducted into the U.S. Army Special Forces Regiment as distinguished and honorary members Friday during a formal ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The honored Special […]

The Defense Department is close to naming the second director of the recently formed Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA), SOFREP has learned. In recent weeks, reliable sources have indicated that the field of candidates has been narrowed down to three people. The wheels of change that lead to the formation of DPAA began […]

We had minimal intel on enemy activities on the ground in the target area, we knew the enemy was gearing up to attack our recon teams to keep us out of Laos. Remember, in March 1968, the U.S. could have no conventional military troops in Laos, hence the secret war. We carried no identification papers or dog tags.

“Almost exactly a year ago, at our 46th Annual Meeting, DPAA Director Mike Linnington gave the families and veterans his word that he would be with the mission ‘for the long term, at least ten years,’” said Ann Mills-Griffiths, chairman and CEO for the National League of POW/MIA Families.

On New Year’s Eve, 1968, at the top-secret SOG base camp at FOB 1 in Phu Bai, Camp Commander Maj. William Shelton ordered extra base security based on reports of a planned VC or NVA attack that night.

It’s been almost 10 years since I last had that dream of Team Idaho’s experiences that day, but every Christmas, nightmares or not, I always take a moment to think of Captain Tuong’s courage.

Since Linnington took command of the DPAA, he has brought new energy and a renewed commitment to the federal government’s efforts to research, locate, and return to the United States the 25,000–32,000 recoverable remains of U.S. service members.

There is a positive side to the People’s Republic of China flexing its military muscle and eyeing controversial land and sea lanes in Southeast Asia: It has inspired a thawing and overall improvement of Vietnamese and Laotian government officials’ efforts to work with the U.S. in searching for, identifying, and assisting in the return of the […]

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The men of MACV-SOG experienced double engine failure over the mountains of Laos and narrowly survived a crash-landing.