059: Jim Day. Too Young for SF.. Went anyway. Ran SOG Missions in Cambodia at the Tip of The Spear.
SOGCast: Untold Stories of MAC V SOG
John Stryker Meyer
5.0 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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A raw, firsthand account of being selected for recon in MACV-SOG and sent straight into Cambodia at the height of the Secret War. Jim Dey details crossing the fence, brutal first missions, lost teammates, and what it meant to operate at the absolute edge of U.S. special operations during Vietnam.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Sogcast number 59. This production of Sogcast is brought to you |
| 0:05.9 | courtesy of Jocko Willing Productions and his technical staff and Saug Chronicles.com. My name is John |
| 0:12.6 | Stryker Meyer. I'll be your host today. And today we are joined by Jim Day, who ran RECON and |
| 0:18.8 | Sog out of CCS as Command and Control South. |
| 0:22.1 | Jim, welcome to the show, brother. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you, too. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, welcome. |
| 0:26.4 | And we just start from the beginning a little bit. |
| 0:29.3 | What was the young Jim Day doing before you wound up at CCS in 1968? |
| 0:36.5 | Well, I have sort of an unusual story beginning of my life. |
| 0:40.3 | You've had many. |
| 0:42.3 | I know you. |
| 0:43.3 | Yes, I know you know me. |
| 0:45.3 | But I was actually born in a migrant labor camp. |
| 0:49.3 | Were you an illegal alien that? |
| 0:51.3 | No, I was... |
| 0:52.3 | Hey, this is before the the illegal aliens is that right |
| 0:57.2 | yeah all all the fruit pickers they were white you know kidding yeah you never hear that side of |
| 1:04.7 | story no you do not sure but i was born in watjula florida and i grew up Fort Meade, Florida, and I always sew in the original Fort Meade. |
| 1:14.3 | The original Fort Meade, okay. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, 1849. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah. |
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