SSG Kenneth W. Worthley
| SSG Kenneth W. Worthley was a Special Forces-qualified infantryman assigned to Reconnaissance Team Florida, Command and Control Central (CCC), Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG), 5th Special Forces Group at Kontum. On August 26, 1969, SSG Worthley was with RT Florida on a mission in Cambodia in which the team successfully ambushed a senior North Vietnamese Army intelligence officer and captured his satchel, which contained several top secret documents about enemy spies in South Vietnam. The team fought their way clear, evading many pursuing enemy troops, and were being lifted out on ropes when a rifle shot hit Worthley, killing him instantly. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and the book “Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG” by John L. Plaster] |