SOG, John L. Plaster
SOG, John L. Plaster
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SOG
The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

Author: John L. Plaster

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 14 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/19/2019


Synopsis

John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project” (Publishers Weekly).

Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite US military unit to serve in the Vietnam War—so secret its very existence was denied by the government. Composed entirely of volunteers from such ace fighting units as the Army Green Berets, Air Force Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, SOG took on the most dangerous covert assignments, in the deadliest and most forbidding theaters of operation.

In SOG, Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour SOG veteran, shares the gripping exploits of these true American warriors in a minute-by-minute, heartbeat-by-heartbeat account of the group’s stunning operations behind enemy lines—penetrating heavily defended North Vietnamese military facilities, holding off mass enemy attacks, launching daring missions to rescue downed US pilots. Some of the most extraordinary true stories of honor and heroism in the history of the US military, from sabotage to espionage to hand-to-hand combat, Plaster’s account is “a detailed history of this little-known aspect of the Vietnam War…a worthy act of historical rescue from an unjustified, willed oblivion” (The New York Times).

About John L. Plaster

Major John L. Plaster was a retired US Army Special Forces soldier, regarded as one of the leading sniper experts in the world. A decorated Vietnam War veteran who served in the covert Studies and Observations Group (SOG), Plaster cofounded a renowned sniper school that trains military and law enforcement personnel in highly specialized sniper tactics. He is the author of SOG; The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police SnipersThe History of Sniping and Sharpshooting; and Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG, a memoir of his three years of service with SOG.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jimmy on February 05, 2020

Have you ever heard of a Special Operations group called MACV SOG? If not, it might be because this is one of the most secretive group during the Vietname War since it operatives had to agree not to talk about their experience for twenty years. Yet much of today’s Special operations group and capabi......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 14, 2012

Writing about the classified and the denied is always hard. Plaster does his best to produce a systemic account of SOG, the elite crossboarder recon force in the Vietnam War, but at the end of the day, he is a soldier, not a historian. When this book sticks to what Plaster knows, his own war stories......more

Goodreads review by Tom on March 08, 2022

This is a very detailed and fascinating account. Tracking specials ops techniques and personnel from OSS and Jedburgh clandestine operation during World War II as well as the 1st Special Service Force sabotage ski "Devil's Brigade" to the earliest and final days of US involvement in Vietnam. The "St......more

Goodreads review by Connor on February 07, 2025

The book of books for SOG. No doubt is this the most informative historical book about the almost mythical unit in the Vietnam War. No doubt is this a favorite book of mine, a recommended to either someone wanting to learn more about the clandestine American special forces unit, or one who has read......more

Goodreads review by Robert on February 12, 2021

Real heroes doing a dangerous and thankless job... working to hinder and reduce the enemy’s war fighting capabilities by directly confronting them on their own turf. The stories of those who survived, those who died and those who were MIA are compelling and sobering. A debt is owed to those who perf......more