When MACV-SOG Watched the Australia SAS Work – And Realized They Were Doing Recon All Wrong NT
I used to think our unit MACV-SOG was as quiet as it goT.
We ran deep recon into Laos, Cambodia, the DMZ.
We moved in six-man teams, carried suppressed weapons, knew how to vanish and hit hard.
People called us shadows, and I believed iT.
Until the day we were assigned to run a joint op with an Australian SAS patrol.We met them at a forward base outside Da Nang.
No salutes, no chatter, just five men in tattered uniforms, faces like stone, gear that looked bare-bones by our standardS.
No extra pouches, no visible radios, no visible rank.
One of them glanced at us, nodded once, then turned back to check his canteen.
No introduction, no small talk, just a kind of heavy silence, like they’d already started the mission in their minds and we were the ones late to catch uP.
