John Plaster MAC V SOG part 1

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John Plaster MAC V SOG part 1

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@mbeyeler1 6 жыл бұрын

That is my photo of Recon Team (RT) Montana at 1:04. I took it in the middle of March 1971. Often mistakenly attributed to MSG Billy Greenwall, I took that and one more just like it in front of the flagpoles at SOG's base named CCC (FOB II), located about 1 "klick" south of the Dak Bla river, which was the southern border of Kontum proper... I was the XO of Recon Company and was training in March 1971 to go out on a recon mission with RT Montana as a "straphanger," or extra US... We were inserted NW of Dak To, right on the Laotian border... Our mission was to locate a sapper battalion... On the seventh evening of the mission their LZ/trailwatchers found us first, and the next morning they tried to ambush us... We were extracted under fire off of the top of a grassy ridge line that fell down into a north/south valley where the smoke of two dozen or so breakfast fires floated upward... That valley was the base camp of the sapper battalion we were looking for... I was on the last Huey to leave that ridge line... As the Huey lifted up and forward, and then pivoted right and fell down the little canyon between our ridge line and the next, jungle-covered one, the Cobras came uphill, firing into the adjacent jungle-covered ridge line, with mini-gun rounds snapping right past our left doorway, where I was sitting... Red tracers going down, and green ones coming up at the Cobras... That was exciting... Almost too much...! Many thanks to the Huey and Cobra crews... Thanks for coming back for us...! Dai-uy Matt Beyeler...

@JoeDevola99 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Beyeler hi thank you for your service, Sir. And welcome home. Is it true you guys carried a special I'D and pass that stated you were acting under direct orders of the President of the United States and was in fact a get out of jail free card?

@Komnenos1234 5 жыл бұрын

Total respect man. Glad you got out alive!

@arkybaldknobber8062 5 жыл бұрын

Matt ...I salute you ( grunt in 68")

@Aspis_1-0 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Matt, hope all is well and wish you a belated Happy New Year. Do you keep in touch with the gentlemen from any of the recon or spike teams? If you haven't already online, there is a site or two that I would like to forward you to that a few of the gents from those teams are members of and have shown a world of generosity by sharing some of their experiences and stories. Heck, you might be a member and I don't know it! If this reaches you and you have any interest in it, PM/email me through my account on here.

@flyoverkid55 5 жыл бұрын

Chao Ong, Dai uy.

@tomr3074 4 жыл бұрын

My father was in a mac v unit in 67-68 , doesn't speak much of it .told me the movie Apocalypse Now was the closest movie to describe his experience.

@jrhamp 9 жыл бұрын

I was in Central Sudan some years ago. I had Plaster's book in my ruck. When one of the veterans of many missions with the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army-US supported the SPLA) asked about leadership and courage, I gave the book to that individual. Brave Men Do! RH

@carloshathcock5333 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your service.

@SteveCaldwellUSNNam 3 жыл бұрын

Great men! All Gave Some, Some Gave All! God Bless -

@gerry1252 9 жыл бұрын

Arnet was one of several anti American reporters during the war, announcing the US Embassy had been taken and the VC were inside the embassy when they never got inside. But he was 1st to report and made national headlines with his story. The Tiger report over the US using chemical weapons by the Special Forces was proven false and he was fired after apologizing to an Iraqi general for the US invasion.

@deenpoots6663 9 жыл бұрын

***** they made it inside. the officers themselves are trying to justify using the nerve agents..that means they are in favor of using them and most likely used them.

@gerry1252 9 жыл бұрын

Deen Poots They made in to the grounds outside the Embassy. The Embassy compound, they never entered the Embassy itself. Arnet reported they were inside the Embassy. Made headlines the next day in the US. Testimony and an investigation into the accusations showed no illegal chemical weapons used. Not that some officers were in favor of using them, therefore they probably used them. Would like to know where they would even have access to nerve agents in Vietnam.

@deenpoots6663 9 жыл бұрын

***** ill give you the embassy. only because im finding conflicting stories...the chemical weapons on the other hand. is a huge red flag. they would sweep this under the rug big time. you say investigation, i say "investigation." they have access to nerve agents where ever they want to have access to nerve agents.

@gerry1252 9 жыл бұрын

Deen Poots Whatever you want to believe. I tend to believe the investigation and not Peter Arnet. I think he was fired for that reason as well. Whatever.

@deenpoots6663 9 жыл бұрын

***** the "investigation" (wink wink)

@josephhernandez8645 4 жыл бұрын

I really want the Seals to go back to the very secretive organization they use to be no information released to the press otherwise you you could face a captain's Mast and very disciplined no blanket party's in the middle of the night that lead to a prrson's death no drinking while you are in combat zone but the main thing course is discipline

@user619tlsdca5 4 жыл бұрын

At 1 minute of video is my Dad, bottom row far left of picture. It is my Dad but I have a photo that was later of The other 24 with 3 American GIs. That UNIT was revised after VW of why US didnt do more of instead of using Traditional FRONT LINE tactics because Today U.S. now deploys mostly Special Ops Unit like this one..

@integboneshyrect8411 5 жыл бұрын

That boot with the bare footprint blows my mind maaaaaannnnnn

@marclayne9261 5 жыл бұрын

as if the VC adhered to International Law....bullocks!!!!

@mq9893 4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou. Very important point.

@brandonstonestone1795 4 жыл бұрын

They were in their own country. Laos and cambodia owe thier independence to Vietnam. They were loyal.

@lazaruslong6382 Жыл бұрын

The America at 4:08 was a Captain named Fred. I THINK his last name was Zabotosy,and he was the leader of one of FOB-2's Hatchet Force platoons. He was a really funny guy.

@brandonstonestone1795 5 жыл бұрын

Great journalism

@BLACKRIFLEREVIEWS 5 жыл бұрын

Was Major John Plaster a member of a sniper team in Vietnam on the Phoenix Project MacV SOG ccc OR ccn ?

@michealhuff2299 4 жыл бұрын

BLACKRIFLE RIFLE yes! Chuckle Chuckle North

@hk198i 4 жыл бұрын

CCC

@paratrooperlane7022 5 жыл бұрын

Airborne my brothers.

@flyoverkid55 5 жыл бұрын

There is no " law " in combat, save for not killing non combatants. The reason the U.S. sent recon teams into Laos and Cambodia is that the NVA and some VC units were travelling through those countries and using them as staging areas, in violation of some " law ".

@SteveCaldwellUSNNam 3 жыл бұрын

VC Nva- DIDNT care about Any law We Americans were to follow bs! They used other countries like Kevin said to Stage areas of weapons etc. Welcome Home brothers even though over 50 years ago!

@flashdancer42 3 жыл бұрын

@@SteveCaldwellUSNNam Yeah and US soldiers always follow the law right? ;DDDDDD PS it's not a war crime if you don't lose. But ofc killing civilians (blackwater) is much different than hunting fighters who hop borders.

@scallen3841 3 жыл бұрын

@@flashdancer42 there is always one

@SteveCaldwellUSNNam 3 жыл бұрын

@@flashdancer42 No law In Combat-- No Blackwater in Nam! Respect to All Veterans- Especially R. Marcinko-- DEVGRU- Teams- ALL SEALS- RANGERS- ALL TIP OF THE SPEAR- WHO PROTECT OUR GREAT COUNTRY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA--HOOYAH..

@flashdancer42 3 жыл бұрын

@@SteveCaldwellUSNNam That's what I've been saying before. The real Spec Ops guys in Vietnam were on whoooole another level than the new SEAL Hollywood guys who can call a Spectre every time they feel like "losing" a battle... And Lauri Törni (from Finland where I'm from) was one the first guys in Laos with MACVSOG... Also, LRRP (which was one of the first special op teams in US Army?) is quite literally (Kaukopartio) the exact term for the (what would nowadays be called special forces) guys in Finland during WW2 (like Lauri).

@thoingo1886 4 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE OUR HERO

@isidorebranham5327 4 жыл бұрын

It was great read!!!

@africanheru2863 5 жыл бұрын

Should have made movie about these guys 💀

@tomr3074 4 жыл бұрын

Apocalypse now ......

@tier1turks 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomr3074 that movie is just a bullshit.

@AndrewDyle 7 жыл бұрын

Need to find out if the 4th btn, 9th infantry, 25th division was part of this SOG. I am trying yo find my brother who was in Nam 7 years.

@brandonstonestone1795 5 жыл бұрын

@@patwxdaddy sog was mostly green berets

@shigotero1972 5 жыл бұрын

Your brother was most likely part of a Long range recon team. LRRP. They were made up of soldiers from conventional forces. They later became designated as RANGERS.

@joekurtz8303 5 жыл бұрын

Too bad that Arnett tries to spin this into a war crime, there were NO friendly's in those zones that our Special Forces operated during those cross border missions. Arnett got his in the end. Fired and disgraced and I believe has since passed.

@brandonstonestone1795 4 жыл бұрын

It was a crime. God bless Vietnam.

@punishedsnake6141 4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonstonestone1795 Communism is a crime against humanity.

@jefflugo9619 3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonstonestone1795 eat bark you shouldn't bark at the Moon Brandon

@brandonstonestone1795 3 жыл бұрын

@@punishedsnake6141 anti Communist paranoia has been a scourge. Communism is a working class party. The global elites have waged war on the working class. And they have convinced the ignorant Americans that working class ideology is evil. Hahaha. Idiots

@Exodus20.7KJV 2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonstonestone1795 Pure BS!

@bender138 4 жыл бұрын

Wolcoff became the 1-0 for RT NY,IIRC.

@Knasfur 11 жыл бұрын

4:23 that is alot of magazines

@dwheeler016 5 жыл бұрын

Hand to the media to tell everybody who they are what they are doing.

@HuaweiY-zc9bv 2 жыл бұрын

เท่โคตรๆ

@susandonahue865 4 жыл бұрын

One of the times a MacV SOG Team was pinned down. - Double Prairie Fire: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fp2mprhpxMi-nmw.html “Prairie Fire: the code word used by MACVSOG to identify recon ops into Laos (previously known as Shining Brass) and it was also used by helicopter pilots flying in support of SOG’s Recon A team was in imminent danger of being overrun, or was compromised and on the run - the exit of SOG-assets in an emergency.”