The World's First Combat HALO Mission | MACV-SOG Veteran Cliff Newman

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@user-sx2nq3kt3xTheresaDale 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Mike for these awesome interviews with MACV SOG VETERANS and thank Cliff Newman and you Mike for the sacrifices and service to our country much respect to all VETERANS and what they went through to protect American people and allies on foreign soil Bless you.❤❤❤❤

@sethdunlap9868 9 ай бұрын

Amazing listening to Vets talk about their time in service. Whether it be 10 years, 50 years, or the last remaining 80 year old story, these men are always so precise in their recollection.

@KGSpradleyAuthor 9 ай бұрын

SGM Frank Nordburry was one of my HALO instructors. He was JM in Vietnam. My other instructor was Gunny Sixta who became SGM Sixta. Infamous in the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill.” Frank was killed a year after I left due to a tail strike with a Dc-3 on exit. this was after he reassured me I would not hit the tail. The aircraft was in a slight climb and faster than briefed due to a miscommunication. I always thought I was barely missing the tail doing poised exits.

@thomasravinsky3258 7 ай бұрын

@alanwilliams2251 9 ай бұрын

Great interview Mike. Thanks for your time. God bless brother!

@anthonycheaford1962 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating, especially hearing the role of Billy Waugh played (I've got an odd connection to Mr Waugh via 1990s Yemen). I guess hearing that intercepted north Vietnamese message with the HALO team names & jump coordinates was when you realised there was a spy within your own indigenous staff - that must have been a really scary moment.

@JimJones-oi8eo 9 ай бұрын

Sammy Hernandez was my 1st Sergeant at 2/75th. He was always encouraging us to go to SF.

@anthonyhernandez6230 9 ай бұрын

Sammy or Samuel Hernandez is my dad.

@JimJones-oi8eo 9 ай бұрын

@@anthonyhernandez6230 He was a great 1st Sgt. And I did end up going to Special Forces. My older brother was in A co as well.

@anthonyhernandez6230 9 ай бұрын

@@JimJones-oi8eo I will let him know you said that.

@Robert-e3l7f 3 ай бұрын

Standard out of the blue logic bombardiers.🎉❤ ,good mite john boy & 2:06

@SuperMulletguy 9 ай бұрын

Great history!!🇺🇸💥🇺🇸💥🪂

@JD47BIRD 9 ай бұрын

I’m curious to know if their giant steel balls was a factor in free fall drop (possibly accelerating decent).

@FeWolf 9 ай бұрын

Richard R Gross of RT Washington did the 4th one

@GW44229 8 ай бұрын

The SAS conducted a Combat Halo Jump in the late 1960's into the Sultanate of Oman.

@pkthurk21 9 ай бұрын

What a freaking gangster!!! This is legit...

@donaldzlotnik505 9 ай бұрын

My God! JUST TELL THE TRUTH!

@griffwoodford1115 9 ай бұрын

@donaldzlotnik505 9 ай бұрын

@@griffwoodford1115 There is a LOT more to that story. In 1964, I was named Soldier of the Year for the 7th SFG. Part of the reward was being able to go to any SF school you wanted. HALO was VERY hard to get into, but my Company CSM was friends with the HALO committee SMG and there was one opening. I told my CSM I didn't think I had the kohonies to make a HALO jump at night into North Vietnam or Laos and turned down the school. My CSM understood where I was coming from; ALL SF training was designed for COMBAT--not just profiling. I was teased for turning down the coveted school, even by a couple of the instructors. Years later, I was the logistics officer at MACVSOG-CCN on the primary staff. We were trying to assemble a HALO team for a top secret mission and could NOT find enough volunteers willing to join the very dangerous mission. Finally, CSM Waugh took over and found school trained HALO men and CONSCRIPTED them to the team. A few volunteered. ONE HALO mission was conducted, but not for the top secret mission. Sky Divers are NOT HALO qualified and are NOT trained to jump with a HALO team. Just being separated by a couple hundred meters in the jungle at night takes a very long time to gather up. It took MONTHS to develop a good recon team, even if this HALO story is true...forming a very dangerous mission ad hoc isn't Special Forces. I think even the narrator smelled male bovine excrement. STRAP HANGERS for a TS HALO mission is not logical. I was in the TOC when they were interviewing school trained HALO men for the mission. MOST of them turned down the mission for many reasons. My point beginning is: If you take the training, then be ready to execute it in WAR. Wearing a black jump suit and French jump boots at the PX on Fort Bragg is one thing--doing ti in war is another. We had 30 Recon Teams at CCN, out of that we rarely had TEN ready for missions and ironically, it was the same tens teams rotating the missions most of the time. Also having been a school trained 05B4S as a buck sergeant and serving as an officer in SF, I am very tired of hearing SF NCOs bad-mouthing their officers and the question should be asked WHY were officers assigned to the recon teams? That should make for a good discussion on your podcast. We had some exceptional men serving with SOG and we had some VERY bad ones. Sadly, the best ones do not seek attention as old men.