The Secret War in Vietnam." The commitment of North Vietnamese troops, as well as indoctrination efforts by their commanders, often meant the North Vietnamese targeted by SOG teams fiercely ...

SOG was responsible for covert cross-border operations into South Vietnam's neighbors: Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam - areas where ... Due to the high risk involved in these covert operations, all ...

Initially, Delta Force and SEAL Team 6, which were JSOC's counterterrorism direct-action units, were predominately manned with Vietnam veterans, several of whom had served in SOG. Although the ...

SOG Teams were usually inserted by helicopter, and often included the support of Hatchet Force platoons composed of South Vietnamese commandos (often from the Nung Chinese and Montagnard minorities).