* United States Military Assistance Command Studies and Observations Group ( US MAC-V SOG ) in Vietnam

While CIA was just one part of MAC-V SOG, it did have operational control of some of the programs.

Many of the military members of MAC-V SOG joined the CIA after their military service.

The legacy of MAC-V SOG continues within SAD's Special Operations Group.

After serving as Sergeant Major of the Army, Wooldridge returned to Vietnam as sergeant major of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam ( MAC-V ).

In 1964 the program was transferred to the US Defense Department and conducted by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( SOG )

PAVN troops on the Trail ( photo taken by an Studies and Observations Group | SOG recon team )

On 18 November 1965, the first mission was launched " across the fence " and into Laos by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ).

It involved a company-sized element of U. S. Army Special Forces and Montagnard commando ( Hatchet Force ) of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( MACV-SOG or SOG ).

After 1965, Đắk Tô was also utilized as a Forward Operations Base by the highly classified U. S. Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ), which launched reconnaissance teams from there to gather intelligence on the Ho Chi Minh Trail across the border in Laos.

Similar missions, although more likely to be clandestine, deeper penetrating, and more like Special reconnaissance, were run in Vietnam by the Military Assistance Command Vietnam ( MACV ) Studies and Observation Group ( SOG ).

* Studies and Observations Group, also known as Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( MACV-SOG, also known as MACSOG and simply SOG ) was a highly-classified United States Special Operations Forces unit which conducted clandestine and covert operations prior to and during the Vietnam War

Subsequent Bomb damage assessment missions and hand emplacement of sensors and mines in support of Muscle Shoals would be carried out by the reconnaissance teams of the highly-classified Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ).

* Operation Prairie Fire, a US Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ) reconnaissance mission into Laos on February 20, 1968.

In the third season, the remaining female character was killed off and the platoon was transferred to a SOG ( Studies and Observation Group ) unit under the command of Colonel Brewster — played by Carl Weathers, conducting covert operations in Vietnam and in Cambodia, culminating in the fictional version of the raid on Son Tay Prison.

The SOG knife was designed for, and issued to, covert Studies and Observations Group personnel during the Vietnam War.

The Studies and Observations Group ( aka SOG, MACSOG, and MACV-SOG ) was a joint unconventional warfare task force created on 24 January 1964 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a subsidiary command of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam ( MACV ).

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* SOG Knife used by U. S. Army Special Forces and Special Observations Group covert operators, including the U. S. Navy Seals

Though no other visual details are given, a comment made by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel " Bear " Malloy in Rainbow Six indicated that at least some of the Ryanverse Special Operations community had heard of the red seal tattoo and understood that it was associated with the Third Special Operations Group ( SOG ), with whom Clark served during the Vietnam War.

The CIA's highly secretive Special Activities Division ( SAD ) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group ( SOG ) recruits operators from the SEAL Teams.

As part of the Special Operations Group, or SOG, UDTs successfully conducted demolition raids on railroad tunnels and bridges along the Korean coast.

***** Special Operations Group ( SOG )

The Special Operations Group ( SOG ) is a specially trained and highly disciplined tactical unit of the US Marshals Service.

* Special Operations Group ( Canada ) ( SOG )

The military police officers serve within contingents of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic on foreign operations on the territory of Iraq and on the Balkans, and as of March 2007 its Special Operation Group ( SOG ) also in southern Afghanistan in the Helmand Province.

* 28 March-A counter-insurgency Special Operations Group ( SOG ) patrol claims to have killed Salaudin Ayubi, the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Toiba's leader in the Kashmir valley, in a shootout near Srinagar.

* United States Marshals Service # Special Operations Group ( SOG )

: 97 Air Special Operations Group ( 97 SOG ), Minna

Special Operations Group ( SOG ) is the department within SAD responsible for operations which include the collection of intelligence in hostile countries and regions, and all high threat military or intelligence operations with which the U. S. government does not wish to be overtly associated.

However, SAD / SOG has far fewer members than most of the other special missions units, such as the U. S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( Delta Force ) or Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

The U. S. side was represented by paramilitary operations officers from SAD / SOG and the army's 10th Special Forces Group ( 10th SFG ).

SAD / SOG has been very active " on the ground " inside Pakistan targeting al-Qaeda operatives for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV ) Predator strikes and along with USSOCOM elements they have been training Pakistani Special Service Group Commandos.

The night before the launching of the actions against North Vietnamese facilities on Hòn Mê and Hòn Ngư islands, the SOG had launched a covert long-term agent team into North Vietnam, which was promptly captured.

By 1968, U. S. Special Forces camps at Khe Sanh and Khâm Đức, both of which were utilized by SOG as forward operations bases for its reconnaissance effort, had either been abandoned or overrun.

SOG Paramilitary Operations Officers account for a healthy majority of Distinguished Intelligence Cross and Intelligence Star recipients during any given conflict or incident which elicits CIA involvement.

The Armor and Special Programs Branch is charged with development, testing, and covert procurement of new personnel and vehicular armor and maintenance of stockpiles of ordnance and weapons systems used by SOG, almost all of which must be obtained from clandestine sources abroad, in order to provide SOG operatives and their foreign trainees with plausible deniability in accordance with U. S. Congressional directives.

When the SOG commando raid was being carried out against Hon Nieu, the ship was away from the attacked area.

This was the beginning of an ever-expanding reconnaissance effort by SOG that would continue the operation was disbanded in 1972.

This effort was supported by SOG recon teams, who, besides carrying out recon, wiretap, and bomb damage assessment missions for " Commando Hunt ", also hand-emplaced sensors for " Igloo White ".

Many more men of the Hatchet Force would have died had it not been for the efforts of SOG medic Sergeant Gary Rose, who was recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Human intelligence was provided by CIA-backed Laotian irregulars and Thai volunteers operating from the western side of the system while the eastern side was covered by SOG.

SAD / SOG and its successors have been used when it was considered desirable to have plausible deniability about U. S. support ( this is called a covert operation or " covert action ").

Vickers was a young Paramilitary Operations Officer from SAD / SOG.

It was planned and carried out by JSOC's Delta Force and SAD / SOG teams ( together called Task Force 121 ).

On August 6, 2009, the CIA announced that Baitullah Mehsud was killed by a SAD / SOG drone strike in Pakistan.

Satapathy, who was training in-charge for SOG, along with a mere 20 police personnel reached the elevated position taken by the Naxalites inside the jungle and immediately mounted an assault on them.