Across The Fence eBook John Stryker Meyer
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For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets fought a deadly secret war in Laos and Cambodia under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, or SOG.
Go deep into the jungle with five SOG warriors surrounded by 10,000 enemy troops as they stack up the dead to build a human buttress for protection. Witness a Green Beret, shot in the back four times and left for dead, who survives to fight savagely against incredible odds to complete his missions.
Shudder as an enemy soldier touches a Green Beret’s boot in the dark of night. Cringe as a Sergeant on SOG Spike Team Louisiana calls in an air strike on his team to break an enemy’s wave attack. A team member dies instantly, and a Green Beret has an out-of-body experience as he watches his leg get blown off.
“As the commander of SOG, I can say that “Across the Fence” accurately reflects why the secret war was hazardous for our troops and so deadly for the enemy.
– Major General John K. Singlaub (U. S. Army Ret.)
Black Ops told with the terrifying clarity that only one who was there can tell it.
– W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Across The Fence eBook John Stryker Meyer
Outstanding read. Compelling. A real "page-turner." I was in Special Forces 74-77 at Fort Bragg, just a couple years or so after 5th SFG returned from Vietnam and after SOG stood-down. While I did not serve in MACV-SOG, I had the opportunity to rub elbows with several SOG guys, one of whom was my college roommate who later rose to major general in SF. John Stryker's book is the real deal. The reader must wonder, "How did these guys survive?" The answer is that many did not. Their families could not be told where they died or even how they died. Because of the secrecy surrounding SOG, the soldiers' and airmen's valor was often downgraded because the award citations were so sanitized as to specifics, that the citations sounded "vanilla" and not worthy of the higher level that was deserved. And in too many cases, the valor went wholly unrecognized, because there were no survivors of the small 6- or 8-man teams to tell the tale. In too many cases, the teams simply disappeared forever after "crossing the fence" into Cambodia, Laos, or North Vietnam. They are MIA to this day. Most Americans haven't a clue as to the sacrifices made by SOG recon and "Hatchet Team" soldiers. It was not until 40 years after the fact that the unit received the Presidential Unit Citation, the unit-equivalent to the individual soldier's Medal of Honor. You couldn't make some of events up, and truth is really stranger than fiction. My beret is off to "Tilt" Meyer and all the SOG guys.Product details
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Across The Fence eBook John Stryker Meyer Reviews
There was a secret war going on in Vietnam. Six men with 2 Americans would jump on a helo and fly into Laos or Cambodia to obtain intel for our mainstream military. The problem was they were dropped into the middle of large numbers of the NVA with nothing but what they could carry. The enemy knew our folks were there and would aggressively chase them through the jungles and mountains to push them into a ambush kill box. The courage of these men and their willingness to do this day in and day out for years is a remarkable story of this special breed of American soldier. This book will take you into the fire of battle and the hide and seek that led to life or death for these men. It is an excellent read. The engagements are distinct, so you can read one short story, put it down and come back for another exciting story without missing a beat.
An amazing first-person account of our secret war inside Laos and Cambodia by specially selected Green Berets during the Vietnam war. The tragic fact is that there was a mole at the highest levels of intelligence in Saigon. So the NVA almost always knew exactly when and where an operation was to be conducted and were waiting with a "welcoming" party when our troops landed on the LZ.
I don't understand why the brass didn't figure that out sooner and make a concerted effort to root out the mole.
John makes the stories come alive and takes the reader with him right into the jungle, repeatedly pursuing the intelligence the team was to collect and fighting for their lives in the process.
I thank these brave warriors for their courage!
The story is well written, the individual actions are amazing, but words alone cannot convey just how unbelievable, almost inconceivable, it is what these men did. And they did it repeatedly, in the face of extreme negative odds, with the scary examples of other teams that just disappeared.
We are fortunate that any one of these men survived to tell about what they did. I'll read it again (probably many times 'again') and I'm sure that each time it will be just as unbelievable to me that at that time, faced with the knowledge of what was happening 'back home' and with the stupid restrictions place on them by politicians and careerist superiors, they still did an almost suicidal job.
I have been reading about the war in SE Asia. A friend of mine was a Green Beret, but I haven't been able to pry anything out of him about what went on. Reading this book and others like it are eyeopening about what took place over there. This book leads into several others by the same author and other authors that were there at the same time. The books kind of flow like a stream, several persons are named in all the books. Lots of photos of the teams and places. Another book by the same author is SOG Chronicles, it's a good read also.
Outstanding read. Compelling. A real "page-turner." I was in Special Forces 74-77 at Fort Bragg, just a couple years or so after 5th SFG returned from Vietnam and after SOG stood-down. While I did not serve in MACV-SOG, I had the opportunity to rub elbows with several SOG guys, one of whom was my college roommate who later rose to major general in SF. John Stryker's book is the real deal. The reader must wonder, "How did these guys survive?" The answer is that many did not. Their families could not be told where they died or even how they died. Because of the secrecy surrounding SOG, the soldiers' and airmen's valor was often downgraded because the award citations were so sanitized as to specifics, that the citations sounded "vanilla" and not worthy of the higher level that was deserved. And in too many cases, the valor went wholly unrecognized, because there were no survivors of the small 6- or 8-man teams to tell the tale. In too many cases, the teams simply disappeared forever after "crossing the fence" into Cambodia, Laos, or North Vietnam. They are MIA to this day. Most Americans haven't a clue as to the sacrifices made by SOG recon and "Hatchet Team" soldiers. It was not until 40 years after the fact that the unit received the Presidential Unit Citation, the unit-equivalent to the individual soldier's Medal of Honor. You couldn't make some of events up, and truth is really stranger than fiction. My beret is off to "Tilt" Meyer and all the SOG guys.
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