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Uncommon Valor
- The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America’s Most Decorated Green Beret
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War.
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert US military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed US pilots, and other black ops missions.
During that time, Forward Operating Base-2's (FOB-2's) recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight earning the Distinguished Service Cross - America's second highest military award for valor. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in American wars of the 20th century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on 14 different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up after three different missions for the Medal of Honor, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II's Audie Murphy.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-07-20
It's a must read. Well written & narrated
The best book ive read on the vietnam war. So informative with detailed description of us and nva troop movements
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- Philip Mackie
- 28-11-22
Informative, moving and worthy
For me this was one of several books I have read or listened too recently. Yes it was informative but you have to listen to lists of names being read out time and again. These men are worthy of recognition for their brave above and beyond the call of duty. Yet the script does not serve them well. I found the narrator had too flat a delivery that lacked emotion that I was feeling. Yet the story and let’s be honest this is not a story it is an historical account of things that happened. Bad things, some humorous things and many heroic things.
I am glad I listened as I learned a lot.
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- MATT HUNT
- 21-09-20
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An excellent book , very thorough and informative. really enjoyed it throughout. I recommend this for a bigger picture understanding of the risks these chaps took.
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