MACV-SOG RECON: The Race for Survival
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- For those of us who served in SOG being detected and outnumbered in a life-or-death gunfight in Laos was an inevitability. This is what it’s like.
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Brilliant. I love how the presentation shows the AO and actual clips of the war to match. It really draws you into the environment.
Never worked with SOG but we flew a lot of missions for anyone who fought in Vietnam and Cambodia, even after the government said no one was there. I still think of the loss of very fine men who were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice for others. Thank you for your stories, it reminds me of my other life.
Helicopter pilot?
Great upload
Thank you.
Love when you upload
Good story brought back some memories. Happy Easter.
I was strap hangered to a spike team when I first got to FOB2. More or less exposure to see if I was viable. We overnighted off the side of a trail, in Vietnam around Pleiku area. At first light we prepped to continue. But heard voices on the trail, so we just hunkered down. We had seen a fast mover(jet) go by a bit before. As we waited, a cluster bomb was dropped on the far side of the trail. None of the frags were close to us. We figured it was dropped short of the folks on the trail, or some other element. Regardless, we called on every radio to anyone who could make them stop dropping. As we waited, the Radio at base, called out to us, and wished up Happy Easter.
The bombing ceased, the area was quiet, and we continued.
Easter has never seemed the same, for me.
I wish they would make more movies or even a SOG series on like Netflix or HBO
Wow!! I am new to this Channel. But, I was surprised that this channel run by a former and retired army MACV - SOG operator by himself!! ❤.
Good luck for you channel!! 😊
Love these videos. Is this book done as an audio book. That would be great!!
Good narration as always. Enjoyed it as always as well. 🙂
The Vietnamese at @7:58 is off. The AI got the word army captain wrong. In Vietnamese the commander of a ship and the commander of an army company are 2 different words (Thuyen truong vs Dai uy). If you need help with the Vietnamese text or voice, let me know. I have quality volunteers
I appreciate that. I wrote something about a sergeant and put it into Google translate. It came back starting with "trung si" so I figured it was correct. I know an army captain is dai uy because I was one during my second SOG tour. Thanks for watching.
@yarnhub should do a full animation on these.
Thank you for your sacrifice 🙏 prayers ❤
Oh Cool....ckg out now...
Have a great friend of mine that works with me that was x Mac sog craziest stories. Especially The Phoenix Program. I was really happy that I gave him the opportunity to go to the sniper convention and he was given his personal plaque 70 + on the army base Stephen Hoffman one tough mother fucker
I trained as a Navy walrus and camped out in my backyard once.
Dawsons War, did you guys ever wear hearing protection of any kind?
I've seen photos of Recon guys wearing ear plugs, so presumably Sog could too.
Perhaps some did during training, but I never saw it. In dense jungle hearing was every bit as important as seeing.
Sound was a strange part of Vietnam for me. One case was that I was upset that the selector switch clicked between settings. So, I polished the raceway of the detent so it was quiet. Only once did I think it mattered. In a company sized op we had set up a perimeter in the woods. Americans in the middle, Yards in a circle, the perimeter. Pitch black, partially asleep I heard slow footsteps coming from the perimeter straight towards me and another American. As the footsteps stopped a few feet from us, I had pointed my M16 at this guys crotch, and slipped the selector to Auto. A few moments passed and the other American and I both reached out with one hand and checked out the intruder. Every part of him indicated he was one of our Yards. We patted him and he went back out to the periphery. Next day when we started moving I spotted him by a large square hole in the left leg of his pants. My guess a scared kid. Who had no idea how close he was to getting full autoed. Did the selector switch mod make any difference? Proly not. The other sound related memory was having a grenade go off about 5-6 feet from me on the other side of a plywood barracks wall. Of all the little parts of that night, I never recall the sound of that grenade. I'd have thought that would have stuck in memory. I would not have wanted any ear protection. Hearing in the woods was too significant.
@@Tsamados just stop
Babe wake up, a new Dawsons War just dropped
Hell yeah 🫡