Reddit reviews Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
We found 6 Reddit comments about Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
We found 6 Reddit comments about Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
This isn't per say a Yard unit, it's a RT unit. SOG had teams called Recon Team ****, mainly named after states like RT Idaho, RT Nevada. They would usually consist of 2 DOD Special operators, a 1-1 and 1-0(Team leader) and a squad element of Montagnards. They carried no insignia and commonly carried foreign weapons to keep up anonymity.
Source, SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L. Plaster.
http://www.amazon.com/Sog-Secret-Americas-Commandos-Vietnam/dp/045123118X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420208512&sr=8-1&keywords=sog+america+secret+commandos
Note the D-Rings near the shoulders. Referred to by Plaster that is the early iteration of the SPIE Rig. They used those to hook onto a line to exfil from a shitty LZ.
Many of them are captured here in this photo book, however I never did buy that book because it was already pretty expensive a decade ago when I first found out about it.
Plaster's two other SOG books are great, though, and I highly recommend them:
http://www.amazon.com/Sog-Secret-Americas-Commandos-Vietnam/dp/045123118X/
and
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Commandos-Behind-Enemy-Warriors/dp/0451214471/
The book Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam has some stores/information about these raids and is a good read.
Very good book, I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/Sog-Secret-Americas-Commandos-Vietnam/dp/045123118X
That's bad ass man! Nice pic. Those guys were a rough bunch. [SOG] (http://www.amazon.com/Sog-Secret-Americas-Commandos-Vietnam/dp/045123118X/ref=pd_sim_b_1) is a great book if you're interested in knowing more about the unit.
For those who may be curious this is a fantastic book about the subject