Hawk Recon Team in Vietnam | William "Doc" Osgood | Ep. 236

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Doc would see combat throughout South Vietnam, spending much of his time deep in the bush far from the relative safety of base camps.
With the less than encouraging words that “you’ll be dead in 15 seconds” still ringing in his ears, Doc embarked on an eventful and at times harrowing combat tour that pitted the famed 101st Airborne Division against some of the North Vietnamese Army’s finest troops on the battlefields of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hamburger Hill, and the deadly A Shau Valley.
Doc would serve as the head medic with legendary Colonel Charlie Beckwith’s (creator of the US Army’s Delta Force) 2/327th, 101st Airborne Division, Hawk Recon in what was arguably one of the most dangerous jobs in the deadliest part of South Vietnam. Doc also became an unofficial combat artist during the war.
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1:09.8	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Team House episode 236. I'm Dave Park with my coist Jack Murphy. Tonight our guest is William Doc Osgood,
1:16.4	member of one of the Hawk Recon teams in Vietnam,
1:21.4	actually quite a history.
1:25.0	Doc has written this book, unfortunately I take the dust covers off them when I read them
1:29.6	and I forgot to bring it, but he wrote this book, Hawk Recon, which is a fantastic book.
1:36.2	I mean, it's really kind of a day by day, not even a day by day, but it's vignettes of what life was like for you and others in Vietnam.
1:48.7	So Doc, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
1:51.5	We deeply appreciate it.
1:55.4	Yeah, pleasure to be here.
1:57.0	Oh, let's see. Yeah, it was, it was, I was in the Hawk Recon, the only Hawk Recon.
2:07.0	There was only one. There was Tiger Force,
2:11.0	and a lot of battalions had a battalion Recon. And yeah, so there's only one. They were there
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