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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States special operations...
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    master sergeant in the United States Army, Green Beret, and served in the MACV-SOG.[excessive citations] Shriver served in the Vietnam War and took part in...
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    Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) who developed their own knife during the War in Vietnam. In December 2021 SOG was acquired by GSM Outdoors. Their...
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  • Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG or SOG), clandestine US special operations group 1964–1972 Spear Operations...
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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) during the Vietnam War. It involved a combination of psychological warfare...
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    Vietnam (MACV). The unit would eventually consist primarily of personnel from the United States Army Special Forces. Others assigned to MACV-SOG came from...
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    Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). This was the beginning of an ever-expanding reconnaissance effort by MACV-SOG that would continue until the operation...
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    reconnaissance with the Studies and Observations Group, also known as MACV-SOG. Meyer has published three works of nonfiction related to his experiences...
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    commemorative versions of the original MACV-SOG knives, rather than the actual sterile unmarked knives used in combat. SOG made a version with an Aus8 stainless...
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  • orders to refrain from combat while he served in Vietnam as a member of MACV-SOG. Although trained as a combat medic, he joined raids into Cambodia during...
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    updated 7 May 2011, last accessed 17 February 2013 Plaster, John L. (1997). SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. New York: Simon & Schuster...
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  • wire to avoid detection. The first successful wiretap was conducted by MACV-SOG's Recon Team Colorado, led by Braden, near the western end of the DMZ. During...
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    Sedalia, Missouri, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a six-man MACV-SOG reconnaissance team, stranded between heavily defended enemy positions...
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    Development Support (CORDS) Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) Field Advisory Element, MACV The "Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam"...
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  • special operations of the classified MACV-SOG formations during Vietnam War. It was developed in cooperation with MACV-SOG veteran John L. Plaster. Reception...
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    the unit from 1984 to 1989. Before his time at the unit, he served in MACV-SOG where he earned the Medal of Honor. Christopher T. Donahue: Lieutenant...
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    Assistance Command-Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). While working for SOG, Waugh helped train Vietnamese and Cambodian forces in unconventional...
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    Operations Group (SOG), recruits from U.S. Army Special Forces. Joint CIA–Army Special Forces operations go back to the unit MACV-SOG during the Vietnam...
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    2016. ISBN 978-1250070593. Written with Mike Thornton and Dick Couch. MACV-SOG List of Eagle Scouts List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam...
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    the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). The mission of the highly classified unit was to obtain intelligence...
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  • Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) Command and Control North base. It was near the Marble Mountains southeast...
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    during the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency. US Army Special Forces - MACV-SOG used the weapon for many years in the Vietnam War, according to MSG Reinald...
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    a special operations team of American and South Vietnamese members of MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War, who operated in small covert operations along the...
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  • Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) took command of the operation (MACV-SOG was a cover name for a multi-service unconventional...
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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG), a classified US special operations unit focusing on unconventional warfare...
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  • historically or aesthetically significant". In 1969 during the Vietnam War, jaded MACV-SOG operative Captain Benjamin L. Willard is summoned to I Field Force headquarters...
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    Advisory Group. This unit was formerly known as Command and Control North, MACV-SOG. On that day, in the Republic of Vietnam, his platoon came under intense...
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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) activities conducted by the U.S. military and the CIA/SOD (now Special...
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    Group and MACV-SOG As a Staff Sergeant of the highly classified Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG), Howard...
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    "unconventional warfare" under Project Duck Hook proved inadequate for the new MACV-SOG. The modifications under Thin Slice and its August 1966 successor Heavy...
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