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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
Maybe you should read the books again, you seemed to have missed the writing between the lines. Pay particular attention to the parts where it mentions medals, firefights, hugely out numbered, WIA and KIA, ass in a sling, barely got out, running, Praire Fire, shit hit the fan, Holy Mary Mother of God, CAS stacked up to heaven, stacking magazines, dropping rucks, shot out of the LZ and "I know there's a bunch of 'em, that's why I sent six of y'all, now get in there and mix it up!"
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Actually EVA isn't all that far off base. Things changed later, as they will, but the original missions were recon and "snoop and poop". I once told an eager young lad that if we made contact it was because we screwed up. In 68 I had some very scary moments but never had a mission to make contact. Some did. For every "exciting" mission there were 1/2 dozen "dry holes", but they aren't the thing of which books and video games are made.
I might also add that "SOG" was a much bigger organization than what we see in books about SOG. SOG was a Joint Services Organization. Notice that the USAF Wings and Navy anchor are incorporated into the MACV SOG crest. What we are seeing written about as SOG is really a nich called Command and Control.
I had several operations but most were very forgettable. I really only clearly recall three.
On one extraction the FAC counted an excess of 200 bodies on the LZ. We got out with only one KIA but the reason we got so screwed up was because of a huge tactical mistake on our part. The story is in "Tales from the Teamhouse" entitled "My Longest Day."
Another time I looked down after being lifted out on a McGuire Rig and saw the bad guys over running what was our extraction point. OTOH there are several operations of which I have little recollection. Not book material.