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15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour by Thom Nicholson

Thom Nicholson . Unknown Year . English

"When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when Capt. Thom Nicholson arrived at Command and Control North (CCN) in Da Nang, SOG's northernmost base camp, he knew he was going to be working with the cream of the crop. As commander of Company B, CCN's Raider Company, Nicholson commanded four platoons, comprising nearly two hundred men, in some of the war's most deadly missions, including ready-reaction missions for patrols in contact with the enemy, patrol extractions under fire, and top-secret expeditions "over the fence" into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Colonel Nicholson spares no one, including himself, as he provides a rare glimpse into the workings of one of the military's most carefully concealed reconnaissance campaigns.

Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Thom was born in Missouri and raised around Ft Smith, Arkansas. He grew up watching local rodeos and admiring the bronc riders until he found out the hard way just how demanding that profession was. After an engineering degree, he joined the US Army and served as a green beret for thirty years, serving in Vietnam, South America, and Africa. In Vietnam he was a raider company commander for a cross-border operations unit. He retired from the Army in the late nineties as a Colonel and has been writing since. He is a graduate of the National Defense University and instructed at the Command and General Staff School. He has his MBA from Pepperdine University and is a Registered Engineer and a Enrolled Agent for the IRS. He skis, scuba dives and plays a fairly mean game of Golf. He and his wife Sandy live in Colorado, close to the ski slopes and the grandkids.

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