Re-re-post of Mad Dog Shriver with new info from his SOG Pilot |
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The 5th Special Forces channeled personnel into MACV-SOG (although it was not a Special Forces group) through Special Operations Augmentation (SOA), which provided their "cover" while under secret orders to MACV-SOG. The teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction which were called, depending on the time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.
On the morning of April 24, 1969, Shriver's hatchet platoon was air assaulted into Cambodia by four helicopters. Upon departing the helicopter, the team had begun moving toward its initial target point when it came under heavy volumes of enemy fire from several machine gun bunkers and entrenched enemy positions estimated to be at least a company-sized element.
Shriver was last seen by the company commander, Capt. Paul D. Cahill, as Shriver was moving against the machine gun bunkers and entering a tree line on the southwest edge of the LZ with a trusted Montagnard striker. Capt. Cahill and Sgt. Ernest C. Jamison, the platoon medical aidman, took cover in a bomb crater. Cahill continued radio contact with Shriver for four hours until his transmission was broken and Shriver was not heard from again. It was known that Shriver had been wounded 3 or 4 times. An enemy soldier was later seen picking up a weapon which appeared to be the same type carried by Shriver.
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One of the campaigns is missing below, because as I remember, I had seven during this time frame. Anyone know? (All in-country were awarded these regardless of location)
Thank you for posting on Mad Dog, Shriver. Ever since you introduced him to me,
ReplyDeleteI have been enthralled with Shriver. Looked and looked for a biography on him
but could find nothing. I've been thinking about Shriver's missing body and wonder
if his body was taken to collect the $10,000 bounty. Another mystery.
Looked and looked for a biography on him but could find nothing.
DeleteThanks and seems someone would produce one as well as a movie. Should be big hits.
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I've been thinking about Shriver's missing body and wonder if his body was taken to collect the $10,000 bounty. Another mystery.
You would think the NVA would brag mightily about killing him, all things considered, which makes it even more curious. Sure would like to get to the bottom of this.
he may have been captured & "sold" 2 russia. Green Beret, Seals, & Spetznatz, & others are tough bastards. but they're NOT in invincible. jl. gaines,mi
ReplyDeletehe may have been captured & "sold" 2 russia.
DeleteI hope not, as he would have wanted to go down fighting, I am sure.He had been hit three or four times before his last transmission and I haven't seen anything on the Montagnards who charged with him.