Operation Tailwind (Pt. 5): NVA, Weather Force SOG Secret Mission Into Survival Mode
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!’”
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Operation Tailwind (Pt. 3): Casualties Mount As SOG Men Press Attack on NVA
“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.”
Main Stream Media’s Fear of A Chinese Propaganda Video
China’s apparent military aggression and propaganda campaign is not for the world, it is for the Chinese people. From the recent media storm of reports one is guided to believe that China is poised to execute a devastating invasion of the United States within the internet friendly time of five minutes and fifty two seconds. That […]
Government Bureaucrats Insult SOG Aviators
Every aviator and Green Beret interviewed agreed: Removing those 11 words from the original award insulted the men killed during SOG missions.
Special Forces Before Vietnam: Operation White Star
Richard O. Sutton’s novel “Operation White Star” is so full of character, action, insights into SF history, and suspense, it’s an absolute delight.
ST Idaho: Vietnam Recon Team Still MIA After 47 Years
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.
Studies and Observations Group (SOG) Ops Vietnam: One Day in an A Shau Valley Hell (Pt. 2)
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.
New Leaders, New Direction: Reinvented MIA Agency Impresses
The newly formed Department of Defense MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is already receiving positive reviews.
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.
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.
Memorial Day Redux
Sorry we forgot to post this one over the long weekend. Worth remembering just the same.
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 […]
