User blog comment:Sith Venator/MACV-SOG vs Dac Cong/@comment-4098900-20111008152836/@comment-2016768-20111008194155

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam: Special Operations Group (MACV-SOG) are NOT comprised of former CIA, SEALs, or any other military group. They are their own group. They are their own special forces team. The fact of the matter is, these guys are probably the only ones who could have truly shaken the VC out of the jungle if they were deployed as far-out and in as great numbers as the usual U.S. Marines. They were counter-guerrilla warfare commandos. Because they were so elite, they were but a minority in our armed forces overseas, and unfortunately that could have been a passive factor in our defeat in Vietnam.