15 Months in Sog: A Warrior's Tour,   ISBN:9780783889771

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ONE PERSON'S VIEW OF THEIR TIME IN VIETNAM. HE WAS LUCKY TO GET ASSIGNED TO SOG INSTEAD OF A CONVENTIONAL LEG UNIT.

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This guy needs to stop Blowing his own Horn, And learn the true SOG, I have read many SOG books and by far this was the Worst 1 st hand experience of what a real Recon man went threw it almost seems like this guy gets up in the AM and looks in the mirror and says damn I'm just like RAMBO, its a joke of a book , (WE FEW) (ACROSS THE FENCE) (ON THE GROUND ) BY JHON MEYER" is what real SOG HEROES went threw "

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Although Nicholson served in MACSOG during 1970-71, this is not a memoir. The dates, personnel, and locations have been altered and some of the events are fictionalized. Have been researching SOG activities and history for the past twenty years, so I know whereof I speak. If you want accurate, and realistic depictions of recon team activities in SEA, see James Acre's PROJECT OMEGA: EYE OF THE BEAST (Hellgate Press, 1999) or John Plaster's SECRET COMMANDOS (Simon & Schuster, 2004).

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Overall, this is a great personal recollection of Vietnam experiences and well worth a read. I noticed many inaccuracies as well, but the overall strength of story and first-person narration make up for these deficiencies.

This book provides a very interesting commissioned officer's perspective on his time with SOG in Vietnam; even though he seemed to primarily serve in a support role, his experiences and recollections are well worth sharing.

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Interesting. Well-written. Some of it reads like blarney, though. As a general observation, I have yet to read one of these books where the author writes about the mind-numbing stretches of boredom, chicken-manure, and sanitation nightmares characteristic of the coastal bases. But cowboys & indians is what sells.