Tag: Vietnam War

Ben Het, was a U.S. Special Forces camp located 288 miles northeast of Saigon and six miles from the junction of the Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese borders, and on June 23, 1969, it was besieged and cut off by 3,000 North Vietnamese troops using artillery and mortars. The base was defended by 250 U.S. […]

In a battle for the district capital of Phuc Long Province in the III Corps area about 60 miles northeast of Saigon in the country of Viet Nam, Special Forces 2LT Charles Q. Williams would distinguish himself in the battle of the Dong Xoai CIDG camp and later be awarded the Medal of Honor. In […]

 The Originals Sixty-four years ago PFC Richard Simonian and SFC Clyde J. Sincere Jr., were among the original 600 Special Forces from the newly formed 10th Special Forces Group that boarded the USNS General A.W. Greely in Wilmington, N.C., for a transatlantic voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany – the first Special Forces unit to deploy to […]

During the lead up to Memorial Day here at  SpecialOperations.com we’re looking at some of the more interesting tidbits of our history. Some you may not have heard of before and others may be familiar to you. While the US had sent Special Forces advisors to South East Asia during the 1950s to Vietnam and to […]

The F-16 Fighting Falcon, in addition to being a premier air-to-air combat platform also performs a very important mission called SEAD or Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. Also known as “Wild Weasel” the mission is to enter enemy airspace early and disrupt or destroy their air defenses. This allows the main strike package of aircraft […]

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 […]

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 […]

On September 15, 2016, U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX) introduced H. Res. 871, which calls for the United States government to increase its efforts in finding 83,000 POW/MIA from around the world. The bill also asks for foreign governments to aid in the efforts to find and locate our missing and fallen service members. Rep. Johnson was a […]

All the content in this article comes from ProfessionalSoldiers.com, a forum from Green Berets for Green Berets. I had read it and listened to the recording many years before I come aboard at SOFREP and I wanted to share it as a tribute to the brave men of MACV-SOG as this piece of history showcases vividly what […]

The details of the heroism that will see Charles Kettles awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House come back clearly and quickly even five decades later. The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that Kettles would receive the award from President Obama on July 18. Kettles, 86, recalls the events of May 15, 1967: flying his […]

Norris refused to abandon the downed pilots, even after initial failure, and went behind enemy lines over and over again, using daring, subterfuge, and ingenuity to execute his mission.

Ramon “Tony” Nadal can forget a lot of things in his life, but even the passage of half a century has not dulled the memory of three scorching days in the jungles of Southeast Asia during one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War. A mission to hunt down North Vietnamese troops who […]