A Letter to M.I.A.s
A Song “Sat - in - Wait.” .. Close to 30 years. Inspired By a “Green Beret/MacV-S.O.G.-Warrior, “Ssgt Richard A Fitts.” This Heart felt...
26
May
History
01
Mar
CCS Trains Cambodians
Cambodian Incursion, 1970 — Part Three
By How Miller
I wrote about the overt operations that were carried out during the Cambodian In...
19
Feb
MACV RECONDO SCHOOL
By Kenn Miller, Recondo #1096
Concerned that his division’s paratroopers needed more intensive training in raiding and reconnaissan...
18
Sep
The Rats of Khe Sanh
by Bob Donoghue, FOB-3
As 1968 began to unfold, SOG’s Forward Operating Base #3 (FOB-3) located on the Southeastern perimeter of the K...
27
Aug
HALO history was made in SOG
Into the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, MACV-SOG’s infiltration into Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam became a major problem. Time and ...
16
Jun
Bomb Damage Assessments
Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a ...
21
May
Stories of Operation Dewey Canyon, 1969
On March 1969 the USMC launched Operation Dewey Canyon. CCN ended up inserting Co A and Co B on top of a Recon Team, with (I think) abo...
30
Apr
My First Mission Across the Fence
By: Bob Donoghue
Location: FOB-3 Khe Sanh
Date: April 1968
Mission: Area Recon to locate the 304 th NVA Division
I ...
23
Apr
Jim Bolen SOG Interviews Part 9 – A Night Insertion by Helicopter Inside Cambodia
By Peter Alan Lloyd
First I would like to say that of all my 40 plus classified SOG missions as a team leader and coming out from Laos...
16
Apr
The Jim Bolen SOG Interviews Part 8: Extraction by Helicopter
By Peter Alan Lloyd
PAL: Jim, a number of times in your book No Guts, No Glory and in our previous interviews you’ve touchedon helicop...