John Stryker Meyer

McCarley was on the radio with Covey. “He said, ‘You have to get out of there now! There’s hundreds and hundreds of NVA coming after you! Now!’”

Operation Tailwind had rocked the NVA brass into rallying hordes of North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops.

The WWII OSS officers are two of the last six surviving OSS men.

The NVA’s general’s response ensured ST Alabama’s place in SOG history: “It was a division. We had about 10,000 NVA soldiers there that day.”

“Today, and even 45 years ago, my mind is blurry on the actual combat that occurred during Operation Tailwind. I can tell you there was a lot of it.”

“Blackjack, Covey. What you’re up against is the NVA regiment you were sent to find, over.”

SOFREP interviews the U.S. Border Patrol team leader who shot New York State escapee/killer Richard Matt.

MACV-SOG’s RT Lion faces heavy NVA fire as they attempt to make their extraction.

By June 1968, Staff Sergeant Pat Watkins had been running recon for over seven months and had seen some of the worst of what that could entail. In fact, the run of luck SOG had experienced from December 1967 to April 1968 had been about the cruelest he could imagine. Of the original 14 team […]

Every aviator and Green Beret interviewed agreed: Removing those 11 words from the original award insulted the men killed during SOG missions.

Read the SOFREP exclusive report on the attack that took place at a top-secret MACV-SOG compound in Da Nang, which killed 17 Special Forces soldiers.

The NVA continued to fire at the old war bird. Finally, the pilot got the lift he needed to climb out of the mountains and out of the A Shau Valley.