MACV; Military Assistance Command (South) Vietnam.
" Five O'clock Follies"
They were members of the 1st Special Forces Group that were temporarily assigned to MACV-SOG to lead indigenous "Hatchet" Companies in Vietnam.
There should be an after action report in the National Archives (NARA). There are at least two places to look: One is the large set of files of MACV headquarters which has chronological after action reports. (Note that some of the reports for the Tet '68 period were withdrawn over the years for various purposes, and not refiled properly). The other is NARA's file on Team 24. Some MACV team files are more complete than others, but there ought to be a report in there, plus possibly intel reports, province reports, etc. One other place to ask is the U.S. Historian's office at Fort McNair, which may have a copy.
MACV Advisory Team 90, active in Tay Ninh Province from 1968 to 1969, was composed of U.S. military advisors and local Vietnamese forces. Key members included Captain William A. McCarty, who served as the team leader, along with other advisors from various branches of the U.S. military. Their mission focused on supporting the South Vietnamese Army in counterinsurgency operations against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. The team played a crucial role in intelligence gathering, training, and operational planning during the Vietnam War.
Answer: Black ops/ Black Operations are not a Special Forces Unit. It is a kindove of operation that the government initiate. Special Forces teams or Intelligence agencies such as the CIA, CSIS, ASIS or MI6 do these kindove ioerations. Black Operations/Ops basically mean if that Agent/Team gets caught the Government will deny there excistence in order to prevent a war. The reason Call Of Duty Black Ops is called Black ops is because in Black Ops you are MACV SOG[Military Assitance Command Vietnam Studies And Observations Group] SOG was created in the 60's in the Vietnam war. Displeased with the CIA's effort in the Vietnam war President John.F Kennedy ordered all covert actions be placed in a part of the Army. MACV SOG was born. Handling the CIA's Covert Actions and Black Operations.
DONG TAM WAS THE NAME OF THE 9TH DIVISION/2ND BRIGADE AND THE NAVY BASE IN THE DELTA IT WAS A MILE OR TWO WEST OF MY THO, ALSO NORTH OF THE MEKONG, SOUTH OF WHAT WAS IN THE SIXTIES RTE 4. iT STARTED OFF AS AND EXTENSION OF THE 9TH DIV BASE AT BEARCAT, THEN DEVELOPED INTO A MAJOR NAVAL BASE FOR MACV.
Big Red 1; 4th ID; 5th ID (1st brigade only); 9th ID; 11th ACR; 173rd Abn Brigade; 199th Light Inf Brigade; Americal Division; 1st Air Cav Div; 101st Abn Div (Ambl); 82nd Abn; 25th ID; 1st Field Force; MACV; 1st Aviation.
From 1957 to 1959 US Soldiers (US Army) operated as US military advisors under MAAGV (US Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam). In 1962 MACV (US Military Assistance Command Vietnam) was created; MACV existed until the end of the war.
The "Five O'clock Follies" was the daily press briefing presented in Saigon by MACV that was always painting a rosey picture of the war and touting the body count of the day. The press began to report the truth of the war to the homefront after catching a ride to the field and seeing first hand the chaos of the battles.
There are 12 names are on the Wall, and other reports list 12. The report from General E.B. Roberts First Cav Commander to General Creighton Abrahams MACV Commander dated 5 April 1970 says 13 Americans killed. There were about 26 wounded and medivaced. We buried about 76 NVA in a mass grave adjacent to the trash pit. MM A Co. 8th Engineer, First Air Cav
Involvement in both is wrongly credited to the administration of President John Kennedy. President Eisenhower had put the wheels in motion for both incidents. The planning for the Bay of Pigs Invasion was entirely set up, recruited, trained and financed and placed into motion by Eisenhower and was inherited by Kennedy. The US Advisors, Assistance Command (MACV) and Air America program to support the French recolinization of Vietnam had been in place when Kennedy was elected, Americans had died in action before that date. The connection between the two conflicts was their creators.