US Air Force Bell UH-1P helicopters from the 20th Special Operations Squadron fly into Cambodia in 1970. US Air Force/Capt. Billie D Tedford During the Vietnam War, a select group of US commandos ...

Formed in the heat of the Vietnam War, MACV-SOG was a top-secret unit composed of the best operators from across the U.S. military, tasked with carrying out classified missions behind enemy lines.

In May 1967, US special operators and Vietnamese troops went behind enemy lines to take out North Vietnam's top general. The mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces ...

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, or MACV-SOG, veterans and Vietnamese Montgard pose together during MACV-SOG heritage week, Fort Bragg N.C., Nov. 10, 2021. (Sgt.

Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Some notable SOG missions include Operation Tailwind, a Hatchet Force operation in Thailand and one of the most successful missions in SOG’s history; the Thanksgiving ...

An elite Army Special Operations group is now being honored, after years of government denials that it ever existed. Members of the secret Special Forces group, who operated behind the lines in ...