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.
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Fortunately for ST Louisiana, a flight of 101st Airborne Division gunships was diverted from a target in South Vietnam toward the A Shau Valley.
The newly formed Department of Defense MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is already receiving positive reviews.
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.
The first director of the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), recently retired LTG Michael S. Linnington has hit the ground running.
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.
Lt. Gen. Michael S. Linnington has been appointed director of the newly formed Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
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.
The Defense Department is close to naming the first director of the newly formed Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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 […]
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.
With the fighting at FOB 4 ebbing, the remaining MACV-SOG operators sorted through the dead and regrouped, preparing for another possible attack.
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.