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Teams – MACV-SOG. The combat elements associated with MACV-SOG were used to reinforce and assist in the recon mission. The first MACV-SOG recon teams were initially called “SPIKE TEAMS”, later “RECON TEAMS” each team generally consisting of 3 US SF personnel and up to 9 indigenous personnel.
In 1968, SOG recon teams conducted hundreds of missions gathering valuable intelligence but suffered 79 SF troops killed in action or missing. MACV-SOG captured three PAVN soldiers from Cambodia and one from Laos.
Although SOG’s primary mission-set was strategic reconnaissance through its recon teams, it also specialized in direct-action operations, such as raids and ambushes. For these larger operations...
The three of us exited the H-34 Sikorsky helicopter as a recon team — code named ST Idaho — boarded the nine-cylinder war bird and headed west into one of the deadliest SOG target areas: the A Shau Valley.
With small reconnaissance teams numbering less than 10 men, MACV-SOG tied down thousands of NVA troops, provided invaluable intelligence information to the Pentagon, rescued downed pilots and destroyed large amounts of enemy materiel while inflicting grievous losses on the NVA.
MACV-SOG was tasked with undertaking various forms of unconventional warfare in Vietnam, including reconnaissance and rescue missions, psychological warfare and capturing enemy prisoners. They conducted a number of covert operations, which had a profound effect on the outcome of the conflict.
Recon Team Hawaii – MACV-SOG. RT Hawaii. Show entries. Showing 1 to 10 of 41 entries. Previous Next. Robert P. Mohs served three tours in Vietnam. His first tour was in 1966 with the 1st Battalion, 101st Airborne Division.
Reconnaissance teams (RT) consisted of two-to-three Americans and six-to-nine indigenous personnel, normally Vietnamese, Montagnards, Cambodians, or ethnic Chinese. Teams were given a variety...
The first MACV-SOG recon teams were initially called "SPIKE TEAMS", each team usually consisting of 3 US SF personnel and 9 indigenous personnel. CCC fielded approximately 30 recon teams that were named after US States.
The first MACV-SOG recon teams were initially called "SPIKE TEAMS", each team (depending on what book you read!) consisting of 3 US SF personnel and 9 indigenous personnel. CCC fielded approximately 30 recon teams which were named after US States.