PART 2 MACV-SOG: THE SECRET WAR

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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John L. Plaster is a legendary MACV-SOG operator who served three tours of duty in Vietnam leading high-risk reconnaissance missions deep behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia, striking supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Wounded in action and decorated for valor four times, he later flew over 350 aerial combat missions as a Forward Air Controller. After Vietnam, Plaster became a pioneer in modern sniper training, co-founding the National Guard Sniper School and instructing elite military and law enforcement units, including the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A prolific author, he has chronicled the untold stories of SOG in books including SOG: THE SECRET WARS OF AMERICA'S COMMANDOS IN VIETNAM, SECRET COMMANDOS: BEHIND ENEMY LINES WITH THE ELITE WARRIORS OF SOG, and SOG: A PHOTO HISTORY OF THE SECRET WARS. Plaster has also been inducted into both the Air Commando and Special Forces Halls of Fame. FOLLOW JOHN Website: https://majorjohnplaster.com/ FOLLOW JACK Instagram - @JackCarrUSA X - @JackCarrUSA Facebook - @JackCarr YouTube - @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing Mk15 Timepiece - MOD3: https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm-mk15-timepiece-mod-3/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr, From Savage Son: P320 X Compact, P320 Custom build from True Precision, P365 Customized from the Sig Custom Workshop, P226 Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc STACCATO HD: https://staccato2011.com/hd and on Instagram @staccato2011 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This episode of the Danger Close podcast is brought to you by.
0:07.0	Cry Havoc, from New York Times number one bestselling author, Jack Carr.
0:15.0	Cry Havoc, a Tom Ries Thriller. Order now.
0:22.6	Zero doubt that the North Vietnamese had tracked us.
0:26.6	Just before the very dark set in, maybe 25 meters away,
0:31.6	one NVA lifted his AK in the air.
0:34.6	Just to see if we'd fired back.
0:39.7	I already had him.
0:41.3	I had my sight on him, flipped off, and I knew better than to open up.
0:46.7	But that's how close they were.
0:48.4	And that guy had tracked us.
0:49.9	He was trying to find out exactly where we were.
0:52.7	And in the morning, first light, that's when they hit us.
0:55.6	And when you think back on all those, all those missions and firefights, is there one that stands out,
1:15.6	either because it's your first one or because something happened, you couldn't believe what happened,
1:20.1	which miraculous, which happens from time to time.
1:25.4	Which were those missions really stands out in your head that to this day you go back
1:29.3	to and think about more often than not?
1:32.0	Well, it is the one where I actually got wounded with that grenade.
1:39.0	We were tasked, put two teams together, two recon teams, so that, you know, had eight Americans
1:45.9	and four in ditch, 12 large team, heavily armed to do a night ambush on a road, a highway in
1:53.7	southern Laos.
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