SOG: One Day in an A Shau Valley Hell (Pt. 1)
Fortunately for ST Louisiana, a flight of 101st Airborne Division gunships was diverted from a target in South Vietnam toward the A Shau Valley.
Author: John Stryker Meyer
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Born Jan. 19, 1946, John Stryker Meyer entered the Army Dec. 1, 1966, completed basic training at Ft. Dix, N.J., advanced infantry training at Ft. Gordon, Ga., jump school at Ft. Benning, Ga., and graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in Dec. 1967. He arrived at FOB 1 Phu Bai in May 1968, where he joined Spike Team Idaho, which transferred to Command & Control North, CCN in Da Nang, January 1969. In October 1969 he rejoined RT Idaho at CCN. That tour of duty ended suddenly in April 1970. Today he is a program director at the Veterans Affordable Housing Program, based in Orange, CA and joined the SOFREP team of correspondents in March 2015. He has written two non-fiction books on SOG secret wars: Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam - Expanded Edition, and Co-Authored On The Ground: The Secret War in Vietnam with John E. Peters, a member of RT Rhode Island. Meyer's website is: www.sogchronicles.com.
New Leaders, New Direction: Reinvented MIA Agency Impresses
The newly formed Department of Defense MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is already receiving positive reviews.
SOG Green Berets Connect With Today’s A Teams
The camaraderie between a few modern-day A Teams and SOG soldiers is unique and reflective of generational respect that is learned and earned over time.
New DPAA Director Faces Multi-Faceted Challenges
The first director of the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), recently retired LTG Michael S. Linnington has hit the ground running.
RT Intruder: 44 Years Later, Efforts to Find SOG Recon Team Continue
A recovery team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been searching for the remains of the Americans of RT Intruder, killed in action in Vietnam.
DoD Announces Director of New POW/MIA Post
Lt. Gen. Michael S. Linnington has been appointed director of the newly formed Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
ST Idaho: Vietnam Recon Team Still MIA After 47 Years
Glen Oliver Lane and the fate of his small recon team still haunt me to this day. We never met. Our paths crossed only momentarily 47 years ago in Vietnam.
New POW/MIA Agency Head to Be Named
The Defense Department is close to naming the first director of the newly formed Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA).
Eric Blehm’s “Legend”: A Must-Read SOG/Aviation Story
Special Forces Senior Medic Lee Martin vividly remembers the first time he saw Green Beret Raul Perez “Roy” Benavidez on May 2, 1968. Benavidez’s bloody, muddy, beaten body was inside a body bag, which was laying on the airstrip at the Loc Ninh Special Forces A Camp A-331 (located near the Cambodian border), waiting to […]
Secrets of SOG: An Unheeded Warning (Pt. 6)
As the soldiers of MACV-SOG sifted through the remains left behind following the NVA attack on FOB 4, the pieces began to fall into place.
Secrets of SOG: An Unheeded Warning (Pt. 5)
With the fighting at FOB 4 ebbing, the remaining MACV-SOG operators sorted through the dead and regrouped, preparing for another possible attack.
Secrets of SOG: An Unheeded Warning (Pt. 4)
When FOB 4 came under attack by NVA sappers, it wasn’t just MACV-SOG in the fight. A pair of Navy corpsmen showed up and went to work saving lives.
