FORT BRAGG, N.C., - Today marks the 55th anniversary of the activation of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) in the Republic of Vietnam.

Olson: Special Forces want situational awareness tools The chief of the U.S. Special Forces Command says his troops need new tools to locate and share data about targets on the battlefield.

Composed of Army Special Forces operators, Navy SEALs, Recon Marines, and Air Commandos, SOG also worked closely with the Intelligence Community, often running missions at the request of the CIA.

MACV-SOG - the Vietnam War's covert operations unit-inserted small teams deep behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia along the heavily defended Ho Chi Minh Trail highway system.

Stephen Baldwin's stint on Special Forces was short but memorable - and we're not just talking about his skinny black headband. Hailey Bieber's 58-year-old dad was the first star to leave during ...

To say William "Billy" Waugh was a legend in the Special Forces community is more than an understatement. He was very nearly mythological. The unparalleled godfather of the Green Berets, and CIA ...

How US special operators use a Vietnam War-era method to get into and out of dangerous spots quickly ...

The kind of mission that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May is “routine” for U.S. special forces, who conduct a dozen or so such missions every night in Afghanistan and Iraq, their ...

In May 1967, US special operators and Vietnamese troops went behind enemy lines to take out North Vietnam's top general. The mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces ...

MACV-SOG’s personnel became among the most notable users of captured gear. In September 1970, the group even asked the Army’s Land Warfare Laboratory to modify six of its captured AKs.

Stephen G. Fogarty, Jamie O. Nasi, Special Operations Forces Truths — Cyber Truths, The Cyber Defense Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (FALL 2016), pp. 19-28 ...

Indian Army’s Para Special Forces were heli-dropped on Friday in the densely forested Chatroo area of Jammu’s Kishtwar district to eliminate four heavily armed Pakistani terrorists who had ...