05-15-2015, 04:27
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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
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But then what the hell I do I know. I stared at goats, sometimes all night long.  |
Yeah.... all night, all day, for weeks on end. They called it training. 
And then there was the Trojan Warrior Program..... 
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05-15-2015, 04:58
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MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Special Operations Group),
He did not even get this one right.
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05-15-2015, 05:07
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"The Secret World of a Green Beret"
I'm imagining a kids cartoon, where the
"Garry the Green Beret",
comes alive each night and slips off of Staff Sergeant Jackson's night stand,
to conduct covert ops against the evil empire of the "Civilian Clothes Overlords"...
...actually not a bad idea....do I get Executive Producer Credits. 
S
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05-15-2015, 05:46
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Originally Posted by x SF med
Yeah.... all night, all day, for weeks on end. They called it training.
And then there was the Trojan Warrior Program..... |
I was just going too say....but, you beat me to it.
As to the article, BS seasoned with a couple of irrelevant facts to lend credibility (what Old Dog said). And he couldn't even get MACVSOG correct. 
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05-15-2015, 07:18
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Pappy Shelton's team from the 8th SFGA was responsible for training and advising the Bolivian troops that ran Che to ground. Veritas, the USASOC Office of the Historian quarterly pub, had an issue several years ago dedicated to the 8th SFGA and that mission. Their team set up a training camp in the heart of Che's GWOA and was in the process of training the second Bolivian Ranger battalion when the 1st battalion ended Che's campaign.
The original mission of the 46th SF Co included a number of personnel with SOG experience for training Thai forces as described - the mission changed several times during the unit's existence in Thailand.
And so it goes...
Richard
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05-15-2015, 18:47
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I happened to be reading Inside the Green Berets (1983) by Charles M. Simpson III when this thread came up and wanted to call attention to it. If anyone is interested in learning more about the events above, and many others like them in Special Forces history, I would highly recommend picking up this book if you haven't already.
Simpson focuses on covering first 30 years of Special Forces history including those operations of the 46th SFC(A) in Thailand. It is an eye opening account of the diverse and widespread actions of SF that go unnoticed by most. It certainly gave me a greater appreciation for the work that SF does in the far corners of the world.
ISBN: 978-0425091463
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05-17-2015, 13:35
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The Secret World of a Green Beret
I thought it would be an article detailing all the places we've buried bodies..... (whew)
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05-17-2015, 14:42
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You guys go ahead on...I need to keep my secrets secret..... 
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05-17-2015, 20:56
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I thought they were going to bring up an incident at the Bell Bar in 1972.
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