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CSM Bennie Adkins – RIP

April 17, 2020 SOF News 0

Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Bennie Adkins died on Friday, April 17, 2020 after being hospitalized with coronavirus. He was a career Special Forces NCO who served in the Vietnam conflict. He was also a Medal of Honor recipient. Adkins passed […]

Painting - "Earthquake's Final Flight" depicts the final flight of a C-119 flown by contract CIA pilots dropping resupply bundles to the French over Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam in 1954. The aircraft was struck by AAA and later crashed in Laos. (painting at CIA HQs).

Intel Update 20170109 – CIA flights, spy gadgets, and more

January 9, 2017 SOF News 0

Intel Update 20170109 – gadgets that spies use, questions to be posed during CIA confirmation hearings, Trump to revamp Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a CIA contract aircraft’s final flight, a partisan CIA, Trump and Intel, and […]

Medal of Honor Award for SOG Vietnam Vet

July 31, 2016 John Friberg 0

Gary Rose, a U.S. Army medic, was part of the secret Studies and Observation Group (SOG) – an organization made up of Special Forces volunteers who served in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War SOG conducted cross-border operations into Laos – […]