Question by Al-Hota: What missions did Green Berets do during the Vietnam war?
What assignments and missions did the green Berets execute during the Vietnam war?
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Answer by Vandal
I’m not sure. Haven’t been able to find it on Google?
What do you think? Answer below!
Special forces were often used by intelligence agencies to carry out missions that were done in secrecy, so it’s doubtful you’ll ever find a complete answer. The whole purpose of special forces is to avoid exposure to the enemy. The whole purpose of, say, The New York Times, is to publish everything they know or even make up about our national defense, something they have been doing for years.
The Japanese used to read the NY Times during WW2 to learn about troop movements, operations, etc., because NY Times was more interested in selling newspapers than in national defense, which is still true today.
Obama is like the NYTimes, publishing secret memos, exposing our methods and means, sort of what you’d expect someone who hated America to do, the personification of Rev. Jeremiah Wrights proclamation “God Damn America” –being done now by the democrats.
So today, we are seeing the beginning of the end of any special forces, since everything is apparently going to be given to the enemies of the USA, which in the past would have been called espionage, but today it’s called democrat policy.
Haven’t you seen the movie with John Wayne? Yeah. Watch it.
Running away
Special Forces units deployed to Laos as “Mobile Training Teams” (MTTs) in 1961, Project White Star (later named Project 404), and they were among the first U.S. troops committed to the Vietnam War.[18] Beginning in the early 1950s, Special Forces teams deployed from the United States and Okinawa to serve as advisers for the fledgling South Vietnamese Army. As the United States escalated its involvement in the war, the missions of the Special Forces expanded as well. Since Special Forces were trained to lead guerrillas, it seemed logical that they would have a deep understanding of counter-guerrilla actions, which became the Foreign Internal Defense (FID) mission. The 5th Special Forces Group mixed the UW and FID missions, often leading Vietnamese units such as Montagnards and lowland Civilian Irregular Defense Groups. [19] The deep raid on Son Tay, attempting to recover US prisoners of war, had a ground element completely made up of Special Forces soldiers.[20].
B. R. Lang, wearing 6th SFG flash, 1970. (TDY Laos Project 404; 1971 Studies and Observations Group).The main SF unit in South Vietnam was the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). SF soldiers assigned to the 5th Group earned seventeen[citation needed] Medals of Honor in Vietnam, making it the most prominently decorated unit for its size in that conflict. Army Special Forces personnel also played predominant roles in the highly secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), with an extraordinarily large number of covert U.S. military personnel lost MIA while operating on Studies and Observations Group (SOG) reconnaissance missions.