"The only training process to support MACV-SOG [operations] was on-the-job training ... but they also carried rope ladders and McGuire or STABO rigs — special gear used to lift recon teams ...

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. The ...

It was the innocuous sounding Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) that invented ... to refer to methods such as the STABO Extraction Harness, McGuire ...

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was the most top secret unit of the U.S. Military during the Vietnam War. Consisting of elite operators from various ...

For eight years during the Vietnam War, the United States' Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group (or MACV-SOG) led strategic reconnaissance, direct action ...

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. At times ...

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.

It was the innocuous sounding Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) that invented and used the method ... the term "ropes" to refer to methods such as the STABO ...