Green Beret Jerry Shriver spent more than three years conducting highly classified MACV-SOG missions in Vietnam. Known as Mad Dog, he repeatedly extended his combat service, led indigenous Hatchet ...

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As the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam steadily grew with more conventional troops, so did its secret war. To counter the Viet Cong’s guerrilla campaign, which was supported by the North Vietnamese Army ...

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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 ...

During the Vietnam War, the US military relied heavily on special-operations forces to wage what was a predominately unconventional conflict. Individual units, such as the Army Green Berets, Navy ...

UH-1P helicopters from the US Air Force's 20th Special Operations Squadron fly into Cambodia in 1970US Air Force/Capt. Billie D Tedford US special-operations forces played a central role in the ...

US special-operations forces played a central role in the Vietnam War. The Pentagon even created a covert special-ops unit, MACV-SOG, to conduct cross-border operations. MACV-SOG teams were highly ...

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