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00:00 — Begin
01:20 — From ROTC to MACV-SOG: selecting the conflict throughout the conflict
05:30 — Orders to SOG: getting chosen and heading to Vietnam
10:00 — First days in-country: FOB2, Kontum, and SOG actuality
15:30 — Inside SOG missions: Laos, Cambodia, and the Ho Chi Minh Path
20:30 — Casualty charges and the brutal reality of SOG operations
24:45 — Early management failures and classes realized quick
30:00 — Taking up the workforce: management beneath stress
36:00 — First fight missions: insertions and instant contact
40:30 — Ambush at Tango 7: strolling into an NVA base
48:00 — Teammate wounded: chaos, trauma care, and survival
55:00 — Extraction beneath hearth: helicopters, AA, and climate
01:05:00 — Preventing off the LZ: near-death exfil moments
01:10:30 — Turning into workforce chief with out formal coaching
01:20:00 — Main recon groups: Montagnards and workforce dynamics
01:30:00 — Calling in B-52 strikes and adapting on the fly
01:45:00 — Intelligence failures and command breakdowns
02:00:00 — Recon vs exploitation forces: how the mission developed
02:15:00 — Onerous classes from SOG that also apply right this moment
02:30:00 — Medal of Honor tales and insane mission accounts
02:37:30 — Closing ideas, books, and shutting
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