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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States special operations unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War.
Established on 24 January 1964, it conducted strategic reconnaissance missions in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), Laos, and Cambodia; took enemy prisoners, rescued downed pilots, conducted rescue operations to retrieve prisoners of war throughout Southeast Asia, and conducted clandestine agent team activities and psychological operations.
The unit participated in most of the significant campaigns of the Vietnam War, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident which precipitated increased American involvement, Operation Steel Tiger, Operation Tiger Hound, the Tet Offensive, Operation Commando Hunt, the Cambodian Campaign, Operation Lam Son 719, and the Easter Offensive. The unit was downsized and renamed Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team 158 on 1 May 1972, to support the transfer of its work to the Strategic Technical Directorate of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam – part of the Vietnamization effort.
A fairly simple BrickArms mod I made using an M60 and a few LEGO parts.
"Special Operations Group’s most impressive M60 modification - dubbed the Death Machine - was a 500-round ammo box from M23 Armament Subsystem fitted to the gunner’s backpack, connected to his gun with a 5-feet aircraft-type articulated feed belt."
A fairly simple BrickArms mod I made using an M60 and a few LEGO parts.
"Special Operations Group’s most impressive M60 modification - dubbed the Death Machine - was a 500-round ammo box from M23 Armament Subsystem fitted to the gunner’s backpack, connected to his gun with a 5-feet aircraft-type articulated feed belt."
Operation Gauntlet.
Location-Hanoi, Vietnam
In the Hanoi Territory prior to the Vietnam War, Colonel Simon Red, commanding officer for a unit within the MACV-SOG, known as "The Annihilator". Consisted of 100+ man teams of fours. They went against the remaining Viet-Cong at a riverside, Marines struggled to take this riverside and use it for supply base for the MACVSOG base planned to be built in Hanoi once we captured all breaking point areas. But the Marines were forced to retreat, but only 20 stayed, one is the commanding officer, they regrouped, devised a strategic plan, requested for air support.
Ten hours later....
A Viet-Cong sniper unit starts picking us off one by one, leaving the commanding officer alive, because an officer is a HVT to the Viet-Cong. Meanwhile, the VC, crosses the river, but the CO said "Red River" -an all out command that sends out 5 squadrons of air assault vehicles- Although it took 3 minutes to destination, the VC were already in the river, a AH-1 Super Cobra with a UH-1 Huey starts mowing down the VC with Vulcan rounds, then a squadron of F-4 Phantoms dropping their napalm bombs on the other side forcing the VC to retreat, the rest of the squadron came and saved the CO.
On this day, behalf of the Commandant of the Marine Corps- General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. named a facility in Camp Lejeune "Red River" in honor of the commanding officer, Lt. General Simon A. Red.
All of the Marines in that unit was equipped with the ARM14. It was a beast at its finest, 5.56mm 30rd magazine, folding stock, 40mm M203 grenade launcher, and the good old "SHC" muzzle break that someone found in Germany.
Credits:
Kormet-Magazine
Shock-GL
Ben-Stock adapter
SHC team-Workspace
A fairly simple BrickArms mod I made using an M60 and a few LEGO parts.
"Special Operations Group’s most impressive M60 modification - dubbed the Death Machine - was a 500-round ammo box from M23 Armament Subsystem fitted to the gunner’s backpack, connected to his gun with a 5-feet aircraft-type articulated feed belt."
A fairly simple BrickArms mod I made using an M60 and a few LEGO parts.
"Special Operations Group’s most impressive M60 modification - dubbed the Death Machine - was a 500-round ammo box from M23 Armament Subsystem fitted to the gunner’s backpack, connected to his gun with a 5-feet aircraft-type articulated feed belt."
The Vietnam Wall
Washington DC
Ronald Goulet
Captain
SOA (CCC), 5TH SF GRP, SPECIAL FORCES
Army of the United States
13 January 1946 - 26 September 1969
Thompsonville, Connecticut
Panel 17W Line 009
Leader of Bright Light Personnel Recovery Team
And Hatchet Force. Killed in action.
Elite commando unit, Green Beret
Laos & Cambodia: Yes, the US was there despite the government
not recognizing the warriors serving thier country.
MACV-SOG, or Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group, was a joint service, unconventional warfare task force, engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia.
Ron was my neighbor back in the 60's.
My Dad looking cool in Vietnam. Other photo caption: Charles Clark with 2 FX-VX 1 Captured VC (Ta-To, Ha-Tan, Nguyen Cón)
Phoenix Program was an intelligence and counterinsurgency program designed to gather, analyze information and then “neutralize” (via capture, infiltration, torture, terrorism, and assassination) the infrastructure of the Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) in South Vietnam.
Phoenix was operated and executed under the direction of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported by U.S. Special Operation Forces, Special Forces Operatives from Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATIV), and South Vietnam’s security services.
Although the program came to an end in December 1972, specific components remained in effect until Saigon fell in 1975.
By 1972, Phoenix operatives had neutralized 81,740 suspected NLF operatives, informants, and supporters, of whom 26,000 and 41,000 were killed. William Colby, the head of CORDS from 1968-1972, claimed that Vietnamese Communists’ most challenging period of their entire struggle was from 1968 to 1972 when the Phoenix program was at work. #pru #sfg #specialforces #greenberet #cia #tigerstripes #vietnam #vietnamwar #provincialreconnaissanceunit #sog #macvsog #1stsfg
KIA 23 Aug 1968. MOS: 11C4S Infantry Indirect Fire Crewman. Unit: C&C. COD: Small arms fire, multi fragment wounds
(L to R, Front Row) Dave Armenta, Ed Sawicki, Unknown, Bill Surface, Elbert Griffith, Ron Jungling. Back Row: Unknown, Unknown