[CO-18] MACV-SOG The Beginning

The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was activated, January 24, 1964, to function as a joint special operations task force. Commanded by a U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, MACV-SOG was a subcomponent of MACV, headquartered in Saigon.

Born from a need to conduct more effective special operations against North Vietnam, many Central Intelligence Agency programs have been transferred to SOG, which now consisted of personnel from U.S. Army Special Forces, U.S. Navy Sea-Air-Land (SEALs), U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, Force Reconnaissance and CIA personnel.

We are here to conduct special operations in North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. Personnel, infrastructure, assets and missions are ramping-up to support this new mission. SOG has been given the mission under OPLAN 34A to conduct strategic reconnaissance, direct action, sabotage, personnel recovery, Psychological Operations (PSYOP), counter-intelligence, and bomb damage assessments. Maritime operations, under the cover name of the Naval Advisory Detachment (NAD), is staffed by the Navy and their operations being launched from the Tien Sha Peninsula. They will operate along the coastal areas of North and South Vietnam.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, also called Annamite Range Trail is a logistical network of roads and trails that runs from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provides support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (called the Viet Cong or VC) and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), or North Vietnamese Army (NVA).

MACV Saigon thinks that the 1st, 3rd and/or 7th NVA Division/s have begun building-up forces and support infrastructure utilizing the Ho Chi Minh trail in preparation for an attack on Khe Sanh. Saigon thinks that the NVA have moved across the border into the Dong Dang Valley area.

We are looking for the 1st, 3rd and/or 7th North Vietnamese Army Division/s as well as Viet Cong sympathizers. They are equipped with small arms, grenades, rpg’s, ied’s and booby-traps. Truck convoys have been spotted moving into AO Whiskey from Laos. The NVA utilize way stations for rest and recovery. VC sympathizers blend in with the local population and provide support to the NVA.

Saigon needs some eyes and ears on the ground to ascertain whether any enemy are in that valley and what capabilities they have. Stealthily reconnoiter AO Whiskey which borders with Laos. You are not authorized to cross the border into Laos. Look for any sign of the 1st, 3rd and/or 7th NVA Division/s, as well as any Viet Cong activity. Look for any evidence of way stations, supply areas, ammo caches, NVA trucks or vehicles, etc. Mark the grid coordinates and gather any intel you can collect as evidence of NVA or VC incursion. This is a reconnaissance mission and air assets will be scarce. You are to only report any enemy positions, compositions and equipment. You are to avoid contact at all times and stay hidden. If you are compromised the best course of action is to break contact and evade.

1. Find a suitable HLZ and insert into the southern part of AO Whiskey.
2. Investigate the villages of Kang, Xi So, Xi No and Palien Khun looking for way stations, supply stores or intel on possible NVA or VC units.
3. Investigate three areas along road 11; Area one, two and three looking for any sign of the enemy.
4. Find a suitable exfil HLZ in the northern part of AO Whiskey and RTB.

2 x CH-34D Kingbee Helicopters (Transport) located at the Khe Sanh SF Camp.
1 x UH-34 Kingbee Helicopter (CAS) located at the Khe Sanh Special Forces Camp.
1 x Ammo, 1 x fuel and 1 x repair truck located in the Khe Sanh SF Camp adjacent to the HLZ.

* Air Force Forward Air Controller O-1 (Callsign = Covey) (**This is notional and used only for immersion.)
** SOG PF Radio Support Artillery and Aircraft CAS (**used only if no player CAS available). This asset is limited by the cost of what kind of support you call in. Something big costs the most and you could only call that in 5 times before zero’ing out the budget.

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Mission was created using MalFramework which can be found here [github.com]. I’ve made a series of instructional videos to help guide a person using MalFramework for the first time, which can be found here . This framework was designed to help mission-makers create complex PvE and TvT scenarios in Arma 3. Some scripts have also been integrated into the framework. MalFramework has a special admin menu built-in. Their original authors were given credit in the Credits section.

– Mission is designed for 18 human players consisting of 2 x Recon Teams and 2 x helo crews.
– Mission is designed for respawns to be reinserted via human transport.
– If there is only 1 x helo crew they are meant to split their time reinserting respawns and providing CAS.
– Radio Support Module now supports the transport & resupply option!!

This mission was originally built to be played on FKGaming community[www.fkgaming.eu] calendar event nights.