At 08:11 second from top left the Italian looking master sergeant, was heroic off the end of the chart, mentioned by name by witnesses in SOG a history book.
He did not survive the conflict, but his deeds and the deeds of his team did.
Behavior or War Criminals MacNamara & Kissinger, guaranteed eventual publication of these tales which men swore under oath to never utter or bear witness to.
@centurion180ad I am pretty sure that person is Dick Meadows, the One-Zero of RT Iowa. He survived the war and rose to the rank of major, according to John Plaster's SOG book.
For those who are interested, read John L. Plaster's book "Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG." It's an intense history of 5th Special Forces, Studies and Observation Group (SOG) running recon in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. You will not be disappointed.
HOOAH! Awesome tribute to a rare and special breed of warriors. May those that didn't make it home return rest in eternal peace. To those that came home, Welcome Home Brothers, may God Bless you always for your determination, dedication and devotion for peace. To those Brothers and Sisters in harms way, thank you for taking up the slack.
@joseba900 Top row second from the left at 7:54, there is a biography of that Master Sergeant standing there. He didn't survive it, and was wounded on several occasions. A-mazing, biography.
If you are going to a war, stick it to the enemy for sure, but keep it clean and do it correctly come what may!
I think one of the more sad parts of this is we will never know how many of these men died... If a SOG team couldn't be extracted, left a man behind, or left a body behind they would call in a B52 strike on their last known position and their existence was denied...
What most people dont know about the SOG is that every time they had a mission in Laos or Cambodia they used only AKs and other russian guns cause they didnt want to leave any trace of US involment beyond the borders of Vietnam...
@TheKILLA317 also used sweedish-K (9mm), silenced BREN, BAR, thompson-subs, and went in with "sterile" uniforms, i.e. no rank, nametag, or even amercan fatigues. most wore tiger-stripes of FFL, ChiComCammis... hell, Wolcoff wore black pajamas and ho-chi-min sandals
My dad was in MACV. I can't begin to imagine the things he did in nam, or how he had the courage to do so. One thing for sure, is that not a day goes by, were i'm not proud that he's my father. I will have respect for him always for what he did for this country, and i can only hope, that growing up, i'm able to be half the man he is.
Thank you for the video's, I served with Company F 75th Ranger in Vietnam. I miss those days and the Rangers that I fought. Company F was attached to the 25th Infantry Division - Jim
My grandfather was in Vietnam 66 im not sure I know 68-70 though, he was a LRRP 4th Infantry, RTO. Wore white and black tiger camo's. He flew with the BlackJack's mostly, his nickname was Mouse, and was mostly at firebase in Plekui, he had a montinyard? Scout about 14 yrs old go with him all the time,
Also, a Stars and Stripes photographer snapped a shot of him and it was on a cover issue in 68 or 69 not sure the week or month, but he turned his head away at the last moment, but it was the issue cover photo.
@headbusta25 Im not sure if he was ever specifiacally a fire team leader for any certain 1 mission, but he was the rto, radio-telecommunications(or something)- operater, so he wouldn't of been the FTL that I can think of,
yea i was talkin with my father, and he doesnt think it was the same guy. It realy frightens my dad, when i try and find his old team. 3 out of the 5 of them were Killed In Action. i was just wondering, thanks again, and more over a big thanks to ure Grandfather
@headbusta25 Thank you for your appreciation, My Grandfather said most teams were never the same men. you knew many of them and sometimes go out together, but he said since he was 23 at the time he was the "old man" and had most experience in country, so he had to take 2-3 fresh meat with him out on a mission, he said unfortunatly most of them didn't make it back, several times, my grandfather was the only one to survive, I guess holding state track records pay off..
wildpatriot-It's really kinda hard when all you got are pictures of guys in cammies/tiger fatigues, etc. You have to know some of the men, their units, team sizes, team makeup, etc. I for one wish to thank you for honoring those of us that served on these Teams during the Vietnam War, that's more than can be said for the liberals & people that branded us babykillers, & warmongers. BTW most of the LRP, LRRP, Ranger Teams in VN were the forerunners of the current Ranger Battalions. Thanks.
All three of John Plaster's books are well worth the purchase price, hard to put down, and you will likely be compelled to read them over and over as you learn the true meanings of heroism in the face of 50 to 1 odds, military brotherhood, and organizational commitment to carrying out the assigned mission, and if possible, coming home alive.
John L. Plaster's first book "SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam", was followed up with the coffee table format book "SOG: A Photo History of The Secret Wars" which is an amazing collection of photos from all facets and periods of SOG, as well as a virtual treasure trove of accounts of tactics, operations, black ops such as the "Elder Son" program and many many more.
Plaster also penned the follow-up book "Secret Commandos, Behind Enemy Lines with The Elite Warriors of SOG".
As for "all of the recon teams being named for states", the Command and Control North (CCN - DaNang) RT's deployed from FOB Kontum in the central highlands (southern Laos and northern Cambodia) were named for States (RT Hawaii). (Kontum was later designated as Command and Control Central -CCC).
The CCN based RT's (northern Laos) were named for poisonous snakes (RT ASP), while the Command and Control South (CCS) RT's based out of Ban Me Thuot (southern Cambodia) were named for tools (RT Level).
In response to 1pilot comment that services other than Army Special forces took part in SOG ops, there were indeed units from the Marines, Air Force, & Navy (SEALS) deployed on SOG ops. However the majority of the Marine and Air Force deployments were in helicopter support roles, inserting, resupplying, or recovering recon teams and Hatchet Forces.
The SEALS ran SOG ground missions mostly in the Mekong Delta, missions along the coast of South Vietnam, and black ops in North Vietnamese waters.
I have to add this sad comment,we left behind most of the Indigs(Nung Chinese,Montagnards and other ethnic tribal people) that trusted and fought so bravely alongside of our US forces.These people are real heroes too.
Just finished reading SOG,an outstanding story about the bravest men that ever fought in any war.I could'nt stop reading it,what those guys did was amazing!
To all who served in SE Asia wherever you may be now, I hope you have finally found much deserved peace. God bless. Thank you......
A great "Eldest Son" incident was included in Plaster's book SOG and in a recent released auto bio of a NAVY SEAL. The SEALs took a doctored crate of mortar rounds, shot up a sampan full of holes and doused it in chicken blood, then set it downstream towars a likely VC area. A short bit later 4 tubes were split and only tiny pieces of VC were left
men of extra ordinary courage and intrepidity against superior odds. God bless you. wherever the winds blow your ashes, your enormous sacrifices will forever be remembered by a grateful generation...Let's go, Rangers!!!! Hoooahh!!
camaradas que no sabian que estaban dirigidos por satanas ,por algien que no queria la paz por alguien que a cometido millones de crimenes contra la humanidad,el judio que controla amarica,cuantas vezes el pais que les gobierna les a traicionado ,incontables
Nodicei, that particular project was called "Eldest Son", an ingenious operation. I think it could be employed today, if one were to capture some shipments from Iran or Syria.
Force Recon Marines were used in SOG missions as well, my dad was in one and he was force recon, all sog units were named after states, example team West Virginia and my dads team, team Montana
I thinking that is fucking hiliarious...can you image us pulling a similar little trick like that on the Taliban who are ambushing our re-supply convoys from Karachi to Kabul?
After an attack on a lonely American outpost several remains of dead VC were found with AK-47 bolts lodged in their heads. Mortar tubes blown to bits with its associated VC crew...Only corn fed Americans could come up with an ingenious trick like that. The VC and NVA were befuddled by this incident. Subsequent NSA eaves dropping on calls made by the Vietnamese to Peking and Moscow revealed that there was a loss of confidence in the weapons and munitions supplied by both the Soviets and China...
The book is: SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. A perfect book. Un saludo a WIldpatriot, tal y como va España, me enorgullece que un español suba un video de los SOG en vietnam
I read in a SOG book that on one particular mission a team stumbled into a VC weapons cache. Took said weapons cache with them, then had some CIA eggheads doctor the mortar and 7.62 rounds rigged so they would explode once fired by the VC. After which they were planted back at the site they were first discovered. Turns out that the doctored rounds did have there intended effect on the VC by blowing them up instead of us during a subsequent attack.
plus..hitler fought the comunist too in the operation barbarossa...the us support the comunist send them weapons from iran...and when the WWIIwar was over america start a long cold war against russia ! and all the jew and the polish killed from Stalin ? russian never had a trial for that...how much hypocrisy...
heem...sorry but...all the usa soldier died in Vietnam...they died for what ? at the end of the war the us governament start to be involved in new war in nicaragua and forget all those poor boys that died or permanent injured ! who will not forgot them are thir mother and father...
They should be fighting the scocialist here in America. Some have payed the price for freedom, others ultimately in U.S. Military Service will pay for the so called freedom of others abroad. We are loosing many freedoms right now, here in America. I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all forgein and domestic enemies. But, in my Service travels I really never met an enemy of the Constitution. The enemy of our freedoms, lay with our own government.
At 08:11 second from top left the Italian looking master sergeant, was heroic off the end of the chart, mentioned by name by witnesses in SOG a history book.
He did not survive the conflict, but his deeds and the deeds of his team did.
Behavior or War Criminals MacNamara & Kissinger, guaranteed eventual publication of these tales which men swore under oath to never utter or bear witness to.
No oath conceived in a fraud, is valid.
centurion180ad 4 weeks ago
@centurion180ad I am pretty sure that person is Dick Meadows, the One-Zero of RT Iowa. He survived the war and rose to the rank of major, according to John Plaster's SOG book.
wheelerthedealer 3 weeks ago
great video's man
eltenda 1 month ago
For those who are interested, read John L. Plaster's book "Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG." It's an intense history of 5th Special Forces, Studies and Observation Group (SOG) running recon in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. You will not be disappointed.
jporcel100 1 month ago
HOOAH! Awesome tribute to a rare and special breed of warriors. May those that didn't make it home return rest in eternal peace. To those that came home, Welcome Home Brothers, may God Bless you always for your determination, dedication and devotion for peace. To those Brothers and Sisters in harms way, thank you for taking up the slack.
USAE9Ret 1 month ago
@USAE9Ret Too bad it's all gone to Hell.
centurion180ad 4 weeks ago
my son is a ranger, 4 times in afghan. thank you to whomever posted this. i can't even explain the pride and fear that are involved on my part.
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Is that Fat Albert (SOG) in the middle of that 5th Group photo at 6:15?
burgoking 2 months ago
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burgoking 2 months ago
around 5:00... that dude is a fucking tank! Like a real life Arnold circa the Predator
clutchcrazy888 2 months ago
To all of the LRRPs, you are the best of the best and i thank everyone of you. Keep your history alive. Thank you to all who have served.
tacomamike1 4 months ago
Atleast back in those days, we paid our guys like they were worth it.
1973 was an especially good payday year, and 1965 wasn't bad either.
Its a disgrace, what we pay our guys now days.
centurion180ad 9 months ago
Very good fighters those teams god bless them and their familys
joseba900 10 months ago
@joseba900 Top row second from the left at 7:54, there is a biography of that Master Sergeant standing there. He didn't survive it, and was wounded on several occasions. A-mazing, biography.
If you are going to a war, stick it to the enemy for sure, but keep it clean and do it correctly come what may!
centurion180ad 9 months ago
@centurion180ad do you know his name?
I cant find him..I tried googling but nothing came close...name please?
Sox8055 3 months ago
@Sox8055 All my books were stolen when my storage faciliy was looted. Even if I could get back to michigan, everything has been robbed.
centurion180ad 3 months ago
@centurion180ad
that sucks. I was looking forward to reading his story....0_0..
Sox8055 3 months ago
Geez louise , a lot of talk, just thank the man for his tribute. Thumb it up, and fav add. Enjoy it.
Mr. Rider, never yield on your beliefs. Be a hammer and keep driving the point home.
XGCScrappy 10 months ago
I think one of the more sad parts of this is we will never know how many of these men died... If a SOG team couldn't be extracted, left a man behind, or left a body behind they would call in a B52 strike on their last known position and their existence was denied...
MonkeyandJesus 10 months ago
What most people dont know about the SOG is that every time they had a mission in Laos or Cambodia they used only AKs and other russian guns cause they didnt want to leave any trace of US involment beyond the borders of Vietnam...
TheKILLA317 1 year ago
@TheKILLA317 also used sweedish-K (9mm), silenced BREN, BAR, thompson-subs, and went in with "sterile" uniforms, i.e. no rank, nametag, or even amercan fatigues. most wore tiger-stripes of FFL, ChiComCammis... hell, Wolcoff wore black pajamas and ho-chi-min sandals
666flatliner 8 months ago
what makes the world go round? well, i can tell you that a day without blood is like a day without sun...
rod3067 1 year ago
These men were great hero!!!
kathy1100a 1 year ago
thanks for this ... what is the music?
episcopas 1 year ago
@episcopas the music is from the movie Platoon
717KEv 1 year ago
cant help but wonder how many of these men made it home..........
1petala 1 year ago
@1petala At least one of them did
CARTESIANZ 1 year ago
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ZepIV 1 year ago
You are joking, right?
windsofsolaris 1 year ago
My dad was in MACV. I can't begin to imagine the things he did in nam, or how he had the courage to do so. One thing for sure, is that not a day goes by, were i'm not proud that he's my father. I will have respect for him always for what he did for this country, and i can only hope, that growing up, i'm able to be half the man he is.
buttermywaffles 1 year ago
may they rest in peace, they fought and died for a reason, dont forgett that
Benderswe1 1 year ago
Thank you for the video's, I served with Company F 75th Ranger in Vietnam. I miss those days and the Rangers that I fought. Company F was attached to the 25th Infantry Division - Jim
fox214 1 year ago
THEY WERE AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE COOLEST MOTHER FUCKERS ON EARTH! I AM SO PROUD TO HAVE A SOG CCS jacket.
mgkiller93 1 year ago
My grandfather was in Vietnam 66 im not sure I know 68-70 though, he was a LRRP 4th Infantry, RTO. Wore white and black tiger camo's. He flew with the BlackJack's mostly, his nickname was Mouse, and was mostly at firebase in Plekui, he had a montinyard? Scout about 14 yrs old go with him all the time,
Biddwin123 2 years ago
Also, a Stars and Stripes photographer snapped a shot of him and it was on a cover issue in 68 or 69 not sure the week or month, but he turned his head away at the last moment, but it was the issue cover photo.
Biddwin123 2 years ago
dude my father was a LRRP, and his team leader was named "Mouse". My father served in 1968. Based in LZ Oasis, and LZ X-Ray. Was ure grandfather KIA?
headbusta25 2 years ago
@headbusta25 Im not sure if he was ever specifiacally a fire team leader for any certain 1 mission, but he was the rto, radio-telecommunications(or something)- operater, so he wouldn't of been the FTL that I can think of,
Biddwin123 2 years ago
yea i was talkin with my father, and he doesnt think it was the same guy. It realy frightens my dad, when i try and find his old team. 3 out of the 5 of them were Killed In Action. i was just wondering, thanks again, and more over a big thanks to ure Grandfather
headbusta25 2 years ago
@headbusta25 Thank you for your appreciation, My Grandfather said most teams were never the same men. you knew many of them and sometimes go out together, but he said since he was 23 at the time he was the "old man" and had most experience in country, so he had to take 2-3 fresh meat with him out on a mission, he said unfortunatly most of them didn't make it back, several times, my grandfather was the only one to survive, I guess holding state track records pay off..
Biddwin123 1 year ago
wildpatriot-It's really kinda hard when all you got are pictures of guys in cammies/tiger fatigues, etc. You have to know some of the men, their units, team sizes, team makeup, etc. I for one wish to thank you for honoring those of us that served on these Teams during the Vietnam War, that's more than can be said for the liberals & people that branded us babykillers, & warmongers. BTW most of the LRP, LRRP, Ranger Teams in VN were the forerunners of the current Ranger Battalions. Thanks.
xc75ranger 2 years ago
All three of John Plaster's books are well worth the purchase price, hard to put down, and you will likely be compelled to read them over and over as you learn the true meanings of heroism in the face of 50 to 1 odds, military brotherhood, and organizational commitment to carrying out the assigned mission, and if possible, coming home alive.
GmanMe 2 years ago
John L. Plaster's first book "SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam", was followed up with the coffee table format book "SOG: A Photo History of The Secret Wars" which is an amazing collection of photos from all facets and periods of SOG, as well as a virtual treasure trove of accounts of tactics, operations, black ops such as the "Elder Son" program and many many more.
Plaster also penned the follow-up book "Secret Commandos, Behind Enemy Lines with The Elite Warriors of SOG".
GmanMe 2 years ago
@GmanMe
Eldest Son
alright4u 2 years ago
As for "all of the recon teams being named for states", the Command and Control North (CCN - DaNang) RT's deployed from FOB Kontum in the central highlands (southern Laos and northern Cambodia) were named for States (RT Hawaii). (Kontum was later designated as Command and Control Central -CCC).
The CCN based RT's (northern Laos) were named for poisonous snakes (RT ASP), while the Command and Control South (CCS) RT's based out of Ban Me Thuot (southern Cambodia) were named for tools (RT Level).
GmanMe 2 years ago
In response to 1pilot comment that services other than Army Special forces took part in SOG ops, there were indeed units from the Marines, Air Force, & Navy (SEALS) deployed on SOG ops. However the majority of the Marine and Air Force deployments were in helicopter support roles, inserting, resupplying, or recovering recon teams and Hatchet Forces.
The SEALS ran SOG ground missions mostly in the Mekong Delta, missions along the coast of South Vietnam, and black ops in North Vietnamese waters.
GmanMe 2 years ago
RLTW!!!
Paladine71 2 years ago
Oh, so young and so innocent back then. And now the never ending nightmares and regrets.
sam97470 2 years ago
I have to add this sad comment,we left behind most of the Indigs(Nung Chinese,Montagnards and other ethnic tribal people) that trusted and fought so bravely alongside of our US forces.These people are real heroes too.
Skwerrlly 2 years ago
Just finished reading SOG,an outstanding story about the bravest men that ever fought in any war.I could'nt stop reading it,what those guys did was amazing!
Skwerrlly 2 years ago
To all who served in SE Asia wherever you may be now, I hope you have finally found much deserved peace. God bless. Thank you......
A great "Eldest Son" incident was included in Plaster's book SOG and in a recent released auto bio of a NAVY SEAL. The SEALs took a doctored crate of mortar rounds, shot up a sampan full of holes and doused it in chicken blood, then set it downstream towars a likely VC area. A short bit later 4 tubes were split and only tiny pieces of VC were left
gambs44 2 years ago
men of extra ordinary courage and intrepidity against superior odds. God bless you. wherever the winds blow your ashes, your enormous sacrifices will forever be remembered by a grateful generation...Let's go, Rangers!!!! Hoooahh!!
dietcoke1996 2 years ago
camaradas que no sabian que estaban dirigidos por satanas ,por algien que no queria la paz por alguien que a cometido millones de crimenes contra la humanidad,el judio que controla amarica,cuantas vezes el pais que les gobierna les a traicionado ,incontables
htsvcx 2 years ago
De pleno acuerdo htsvxc, misguided heroes of America!
t3h8d9 2 years ago
Nodicei, that particular project was called "Eldest Son", an ingenious operation. I think it could be employed today, if one were to capture some shipments from Iran or Syria.
yayablu1970 2 years ago
I hate communism...I hate communist people....
hakawaija 2 years ago
Force Recon Marines were used in SOG missions as well, my dad was in one and he was force recon, all sog units were named after states, example team West Virginia and my dads team, team Montana
1pilot 3 years ago
I thinking that is fucking hiliarious...can you image us pulling a similar little trick like that on the Taliban who are ambushing our re-supply convoys from Karachi to Kabul?
Nodicei 3 years ago
After an attack on a lonely American outpost several remains of dead VC were found with AK-47 bolts lodged in their heads. Mortar tubes blown to bits with its associated VC crew...Only corn fed Americans could come up with an ingenious trick like that. The VC and NVA were befuddled by this incident. Subsequent NSA eaves dropping on calls made by the Vietnamese to Peking and Moscow revealed that there was a loss of confidence in the weapons and munitions supplied by both the Soviets and China...
Nodicei 3 years ago
The book is: SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. A perfect book. Un saludo a WIldpatriot, tal y como va España, me enorgullece que un español suba un video de los SOG en vietnam
BrimzX 2 years ago
I read in a SOG book that on one particular mission a team stumbled into a VC weapons cache. Took said weapons cache with them, then had some CIA eggheads doctor the mortar and 7.62 rounds rigged so they would explode once fired by the VC. After which they were planted back at the site they were first discovered. Turns out that the doctored rounds did have there intended effect on the VC by blowing them up instead of us during a subsequent attack.
Nodicei 3 years ago
these vids rock and becuase my granpa/dad was a ranger it rocks
jisher13 3 years ago
plus..hitler fought the comunist too in the operation barbarossa...the us support the comunist send them weapons from iran...and when the WWIIwar was over america start a long cold war against russia ! and all the jew and the polish killed from Stalin ? russian never had a trial for that...how much hypocrisy...
lucathai67 3 years ago
heem...sorry but...all the usa soldier died in Vietnam...they died for what ? at the end of the war the us governament start to be involved in new war in nicaragua and forget all those poor boys that died or permanent injured ! who will not forgot them are thir mother and father...
lucathai67 3 years ago
They should be fighting the scocialist here in America. Some have payed the price for freedom, others ultimately in U.S. Military Service will pay for the so called freedom of others abroad. We are loosing many freedoms right now, here in America. I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all forgein and domestic enemies. But, in my Service travels I really never met an enemy of the Constitution. The enemy of our freedoms, lay with our own government.
spruance420 3 years ago
OUTSTANDING...HOOAH!!!!!
BLP173rd 3 years ago
Outstandingly Done. Thank You.
StaceAce01 3 years ago
There were/are none better or braver. God bless the extraordinary men of MACV/SOG.
owlandtree 3 years ago
These men, by their value and intrepidity, are an inspiration for wich we
defend the freedom against the marxism.
Hooah.
wildpatriot 3 years ago
@wildpatriot
Outstanding. Thanks for posting this.
Airborne.
cassiusclaynyc 1 year ago
@wildpatriot Have you ever even read Das Kapital? If so, please explain to me what is it all about? What is the "Poverty of Philosophy?"
chris96kalonji 8 months ago
Estos hombres, por su valor e intrepidez, son una inspiración para los que creemos en la defensa de la libertad frente al marxismo.
Hooah.
wildpatriot 3 years ago