Category: Military History

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.

Hernán Cortés led arguably the most fascinating, most consequential, and most harrowing special-operations campaign in history.

On their ride back to Rhodesia, they were informed that a radio intercept confirmed the sabotage had worked and killed several Terrs.

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.”

Navy SEALs have clearly dominated the SOF space race.

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 […]

Robert E. Lee deserves to be remembered with respect, even by those who loathe the causes he fought for in the Civil War and in the Mexican-American War.

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.