![]() “Spider” Parks as team leader and Don Wolken, assistant team leader.”īrown: “What was the AO like, particularly in the Prairie Fire (Laos) AO?” I landed on Spike Team Idaho with Robert J. There was an instant opening in SOG recon. When we got off the H-34 (South Vietnamese Air Force’s 219 Special Operations Squadron) Kingbee a SOG recon team got on board and left for Laos, and were never heard from again. Mac and I then flew up to FOB 1 in Phu Bai. That was a shock to us, he had served three previous tours, and we all held him in the highest esteem, a true SF legend and now he was dead. He told us the Villarosa was KIA earlier in the year, running a target out of FOB 4, in Da Nang. “ Then one of our guys asked him privately if he knew SFC Paul Villarosa, who helped to get Mac and I through commo training. ![]() This is a top secret briefing….Welcome to Command and Control Detachment of the 5 th Special Forces Group, Airborne….Gentlemen before you is a confidentiality agreement…you can’t talk about C&C or SOG for 20 years. came in and said, ‘Put away all pens, pencils and notebooks. We were herded into a nondescript room and started pulling out pencils and pads, as we had been doing for months. A truck drove us to the C&C (Command and Control Headquarters) near the air base. That was our informal introduction, where there were veteran Green Berets, some mysterious types in civilian clothes who stayed away from green horns like Johnny Mac and I. When we arrived at Da Nang, we stayed in an SF/CIA safe house simply called House 22, not to be confused with House 10 in Saigon. ![]() John MacIntyre asked what we were volunteering for and the sergeant glared back and said, ‘You’re in SF now, you’ll know when you have a need to know.’ Well, Mac and I had just seen the movie the Green Berets with John Wayne, we raised our hands and that was that, we were shipped to Da Nang.” ![]() They all advised us to go to an A Camp first. Do I have any hands?’ Keep in mind, when we went through (Special Forces) training group (at Bragg), the old Vietnam hands told us this would happen. Meyer: “We landed in ‘Nam at the end of 1968, went to 5 th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Headquarters in Nha Trang and completed the three-week in country training, at the end of which, a bantam rooster-sized Green Beret came out and said something to the effect: ‘We’re looking for volunteers. You had what some might term a rude introduction to SOG, tell us about that. Gordon, Ga., when did you land in ‘Nam? Tell us about your volunteering for SOG. Bragg and some top secret RTT training at Ft. Ok?’ I saluted and started writing.”īrown: “After basic training, AIT, Jump School, Special Forces training at Ft. If they fuck with you while you’re writing for me we’ll take ‘em to the fucking Supreme Court. I said yes, but cautioned that the 20-year secret document I signed in SOG prohibiting me from writing about it, was still in effect. You asked me if I’d like to write SOG stories for SOF. Meyer: “Robert, it started with you and Soldier of Fortune Magazine in 1986. Brown: “Tilt, when did you first start writing about SOG, you know the Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, where you ran top secret missions for 19 months during the eight-year secret war waged by Green Berets and their indigenous troops across the fence in N. SOF’s Robert Brown Interviews SOG Author John Stryker “Tilt” Meyer
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