SOGCast 009: Mike Taylor. Three and a Half Years in SOG. Ground and Air.
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RIP Mike taylor. You were a warrior! -and god needed you on his side. We love you and appreciate your sacrifice immensely.
I just read that this hero passed away last September. I sincerely hope that isn't true. But if it is.. then damn. I didn't know the know the man but this was an amazing podcast that hit home for me. It's obvious that the world is not a better place without him. But he lived one hell of a life and I say amen to that. RIP Mike Taylor.
It is with a heavy heart the Special Operations Association passes on the news that we've lost our comrade Mike Taylor, who passed away on September 3rd, 2022. Per his wishes, Mike will be interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
Yes he passed. What a lose.
Glad the SOG Cast is back. It's been a minute or two. Keep em coming!!
Absolutely amazing stories. Thanks again guys. God Bless all our hero VETS 👍
Thanks Jocko for giving these legends a voice. Don't have to tell anyone...but these guys are the next to go. God bless them and thank you for your service
Listening to Mr. Taylor's emotional responses hits hard. Thank you, sir. Bless you and your teams.
Thank you Mike for sharing your stories. Thank you Tilt for making it where we can hear them.
My grandfather never talked about Vietnam but after he died we found some old pictures and documents from his time in. One of the pictures he had was him sitting in the cockpit of what I think was a h34 helicopter. The unit patch he had on had the motto "So that others may live". The moment I saw that picture I understood why he probably never talked about it.
Parajumper brother, bravest of the brave ,be very proud! Yr DNA
My Grandpa warned me. 🥰
Well your grandfather was a hero and Patriot and God bless him rest in peace
Air Force Para Rescue? those fellows were so tough they sent them thru Superman school (the PJ training pipeline).
@@cavscout7113 don't think so he was a pilot
Mr.tilt,,,.keep em coming ....your content never gets old....super fantastic....! Thank you..God bless. ❤️☕
My great uncle who flew in WW2 and Korea, transitioned to the CIA flying for Bird and Sons during Vietnam. He rotated between Thailand and Saigon. He use to go to Bein Hoa to see my dad when he was in country. My dad was a part of the 334th AHC 1st Platoon (3 tours).
The airbase in Ubon, Thailand was also a refugee camp after the fall of Saigon. That’s where I was born and live until 1983
Wow….that would be a great story to hear.
Glad you made it out.
Glad to have you with us!
Thank you once again Tilt for another extremely interesting interview. An SF / Sog Officer with knowledge, dignity , respect & honor.
His direct knowledge of the nuts n bolts of daily actions, even stuff NCO Tilt didnt really know, is just riveting.
He tells all, good and bad, and names names. Love these guys.
THANK YOU and welcome home gentlemen.
My Uncle, a 2 tour Vietnam Army vet with engineers, just passed last month.
During the honor guard service, they insert 3 empty blank cartridges into the folded flag. The Army symbol is a Bald Eagle with talons of wheat, which a wreath on his casket was army green with wheat. After the honor guard finished, i approached the casket, took some wheat from the wreath, snapped to attention, and saluted My Uncle.
When we walked outside, there were 3 bald Eagles flying over the cemetary.
We are in north western PA. Not a lot of bald eagles around here. Whats the chances of that?
I know my Uncle was there.
Yes he was, Sir. Much Respect too you're Uncle.
Thank you Tilt. This is my favorite podcast. You sir are my Hero.
Thank you, Mr. Myers, for doing these pod casts much appreciated. You gentlemen are my hero's my dad is a vet from the PBRs .
cant get enough of SOGCast
I hate when these end. The SOG chronicles are the best. Still waiting for someone to produce their miniseries a la band if brothers.
Love these so much. These dudes are my heroes.
Mike RIP Buddy Thanks for you service
So glad to hear about SOG from the air perspective on here. On of my all time favourite books to come out of 'Nam has to be Tom Yarborough's "Da Nang Diary".
Great video Tilt!! Thanks to Jocko and keep up the good work. Bircher in Brentwood, TN.
Loved this one, especially the ending. “Come to the Seattle Airport, I’ll pick you up”. “Come to SOA meeting, there are so many of us who do not like you”. 😂😂 The name drop was absolutely necessary
SOA?
@@NinjaofApathy special operations association
Love to listen to your past❤thank you for your service, courage and sacrifice to answer the call to serve 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fantastic. Thanks for your service and being here today to tell your mindblowing stories. Whew
Thank you gentlemen gentlemen once again blown away By the stories and sacrifices of these special men.
Tilt ~ after watching all of the SOGcast specials ~ it dawned on me ~ you have a photographic memory. Like few & far between, at a moments notice, you're able to recall minutia & connect dots to the over all mission like none I've witnessed before. Thanks to all SOG for your service //(- -)
I’ve noticed most of those guys can remember dates and names and places but I think it’s cuz the trauma of it imprinted on their mind
Buckets of respect Gentlemen!
My Dad would cry about 2 friends he lost in L-19’s Eddie Richenbach and Thompson Tommy Bergen true heroes❤
I usually listen to these a couple times to avoid missing something. Thanks Tilt, take care of yourself, we need a bunch more of these podcasts. As always, thanks Jocko, Echo..
I never have spent 2 hours watching a podcast before these stories started popping up. Thank you so much for bringing these heros to the studio to tell their stories...
This History will now be preserved forever as inspiration for all.
Thank-You Tilt and Mike for sharing this important part of Americas History we otherwise would never have known.
Thank you for sharing these men with us tilt. I hope you see this. God bless you guys. You have mo idea my gratitude for all of you.
I want to comment, but I can't find the words. Remarkable, inspiring, grateful, honored to hear these Mens stories is all I can come up with.
Thanks for the Awesome interview. You guys are Great.
Forgot to add,,,enjoyed your story Mike....amazing!
Thanks for keeping these stories alive! I get choked up to each one I listen to. As a young Army Ranger you guys were our Hero’s! Today I study the History of the War to keep their names alive
Fantastic as always. Thank you.
Thank both you guys and all involved for your sacrifice
I'm still waiting on a high end network series done on these men's endeavors and tribulations. These sogcast episodes and Jockos episodes are good to help etch their duty in stone for the world to hear. But to visually see what these men went thru time in and time out can be hard to visualize and comprehend to scope and gravity of the perils of their missions and what they willingly went into. A lot of their missions were basically behind the gates of hell and would go back for seconds. These warriors can never get enough shine. Welcome home brothers.
Welcome back John! Look forward to each of this more than anything else!
Is it my imagination or does Tom sound like Jocko with some voice modulation. The pacing, syncopation, and background knowledge is so similar.
Another amazing podcast. Quite a different point of view. Keep ‘em coming!
Jocko 180 Started it All. In retrospect.
Yep and it infuriates me that this one other podcast is trying to get their numbers up by talking shyt about Jocko The amount of jealousy in the SF community is insane to me
Thank you so much GVP, SGU, Hmong son. I’m a American and I thank her by enlisting in the greatest army ever The US ARMY. T-28 Trojans were rough as nails.
Great stuff. Much respect to all you SOG guys...
A nice little present before Thanksgiving. Gona enjoy this.
Love these guys and their stories!!!
Tilt, I hope you stay in good health and continue to make these SOG Casts for years to come. It is long overdue that these stories be told. We need to get as many first hand accounts as possible before it is too late.
My grandfather died in an F4 Phantom in Laos under the FAC “Nail 61.” Him and his fronseater are still considered MIA in Laos, but nothing will ever been found. Crash site found but no remains
Damn man, that’s heartbreaking. I’m sure there’s many grateful men that were saved because your grandfather.
@@washedupwarvet2027 Thank you for your support, brother.
Thank you for bringing these stories to all of us You guys have sacrificed so much for us and each other After listening to your stories I get mad thinking of how you all were treated by the brass Having volunteers that are willing to do these suicide missions should have been treated like gold I truly hope you all know how much you all are appreciated and revered by so many people I think to when I was 20 and I can’t see myself doing any of these things you all did How anyone could treat you terribly when u came home is beyond me Thank you guys
Thanks for keeping this series going
Had a very close friend that was SOG He passed away a year or so ago
His name was Ward Gilbert,
He had many interesting stories.
One was about a place called Rooster IIRC
thank you for sharing! waiting for something new from you each time
Thanks for giving us this on Thanksgiving eve.
Ugh! I hate finding out these men are passing. My grandfather was a Covey FAC and he was lost on June 29, 1972 while saving men on the ground and his back seater. I have so many questions and would have loved to picked his brain. He, my grandfather, was out of Da Nang.
Another great episode!
This was epic.... Greetings from Australia
Thank you
Thank you. 🇺🇸
Awesome, love SOG Cast
Another great interview, and we finally have a name - Lt. Colonel Donahue.
Keep them coming
John I read your book across the fence and listen to your Podcast It would be an honor to meet you someday and other sog members. The sog recontinent and all the aviators and everybody involved are the bravest men his country has ever seen . I wish they would have let you guys win the war without Letting their political BS get in the way. Thank you for your service And good luck to you and your family in the future
Reconnaissance
Awesome, thank you
These guys are my heroes unbelievable warriors. God Bless you-all
Donahauge needs finding and shamed by everyone 😡😡😡
John you are a great man!
*Jocko Willink is the Reluctant Leader we need.*
.....We know you've done enough, but your Nation needs you.
🇺🇸 *2024* 🦅
He'll, the world needs him, America does not have a monopoly on dickhead politicians, we have an excess of them here in Scotland and the UK!
There must be a good reason why the camera was seldom on the main focus! Also, some illustrations of people and areas would have been good!
Once again Tilt, Thank You.
The best men I ever worked with in uniform (5 different ones over my career of 43 years) had the motto "Sometimes it's easier to get forgiveness than permission". These SOG men seem to use that motto well. It was always about the mission and the men, not about politics, procedures and promotions.
J,s,m, you are a legend ❤
Great to hear a mention of Payne.
An Australian legend.
Keep the sogcasts coming john!
Amazing !
He'll yea keep em commin tilt, I fuck with these stories, your making the world a better place doing what ur doing, props to all the people who fought and died for us.
Unrelated maybe. I've recently listened to your TED talk at the University of Nevada. Crass as it may be, mistakes and decisions are not the same. A mistake is you stubbing your toe on a mattress frame...a decision, poor or not, is a willing action. Saying " I made a decision and it sucked" shows ownership...saying "I made a mistake" not so much. God bless.
R.I.P. Mike Taylor.
Hope the video guy got issued 100 push up's and 100 pull up's
First one and was thinking yesterday haven’t seen a SOG cast in a minute
Another great book by a SOG covey pilot is: Tom Yarborough - Da Nang Diary.
thanks for the tip, i will look it up.
Great book!
We are losing one of the last generations of "REAL" men.
🇺🇸💪
I believe every citizen should do at least 2 years in the Guard. It would straighten a lot of nonsense out.
@@Tacit_Tern agree 💯
@jocko podcast How can people donate directly to efforts directed towards support of the pursuit of these SF soldiers to bring back their POW????
God Bless gentlemen, and happy holidays!!!!!!
RIP
How could I find out if my dad's best friend was in the secret war? Back around 1987-89 I was a lazy student and I had the great idea to interview my dad's friend, Buddy Phillips, about his service in Vietnam for a book report. Of course I waited until the last day to do and the interview went like this.
When did you go to Vietnam?
"Xxxxx date"
Where were you stationed?
"I can't tell you that."
Can you tell me about a mission?
"I got dropped off at point A and was picked up at point B."
What did you do?
"Killed bad guys."
Where were the significant battles?
" I can't tell you that."
What company were you with?
"I can't tell you that."
And on and on and on it went. Needless to say I totally failed the report. He didn't give me anything. Now knowing about the secret war I wonder if that's where he was. He passed away sometime in the 90's I believe. Late 90's. Anyone have any ideas? It's just for curiosities sake.
Thank you.
To Americas real heroes, you men had guardian angels. Wow, thank you.
I kind of have a habit of saying and doing stupid shit..
0-2 was the Cessna 337 Skymaster
Love these interviews, thank you for bringing us these amazing accounts. If there is a meaning to it I am not aware of, i apologize, but whats up with the huge weird looking head on the p.o.w flag?? I couldn't stop looking at it...haha
*To me* it -- the large forehead -- conveys "deep thought". I assume that's what you found to be huge and weird. The overall comparative size of the head denotes that it is physically close to the viewer (as-in a picture, vehicle mirror, horizon).
Dad would fly L-19 using WP to mark troop movements under the canopy drawing fierce b small arms fire before they could clear the area getting shot at a lot Da Nang 66 Phuc Long in 69-70 MacV
The things that we do, so others may live
Yessir.
My uncle, GENE WYLES. The FOLLOW ME statue model was SF In Vietnam... I don't know how to find out if he was MACV-SOG but, if he was, or if you guys know him. Please get in touch with me so I can find out more on his history and maybe talk to some people that served with him. Thank you giysm
You could probably reach out to the special forces association for information. Best of luck
I served with a guy who served in Korea and done three tours in Nam. His name was Peter Perdavari, who was a Ranger, green beret, and master parachutist who said he went behind enemy lines and destroyed the NVA food, ammo, and fuels supply lines. I understand SOG are supposed to be the only ones who run missions behind enemy lines. He passed away at Ft. Campbell in Oct 81. I went to see him often because we were roommates, and the last time I went to see him, they told me he was gone. I replied, "Did he go back to the unit and they told me he passed away that agent orange had eaten him alive. He spoke 5 languages. His father was Iranian, and his mother was Russian, and he told me that he could never go back to his family because they would kill him. Any info would be appreciated. Thx to everyone and for what everyone has done.
"the rear echelon PUKES club....." lolol
God bless
When men were men
We still have some. Though fewer every day
I thought Billy Waugh, was the very 1st man to do the HALO jump
Mr.Stryker-Meyer. Putting two and two together, seems like Donahue is the same guy who got upset about the encryption device. ??????
Post Interview Summary? After show PIS?
I always wondered what “Covey” was.
Can someone in the chat tell me who Coal- bin Willie was?! Was that nickname for SecDef McNamara
that was the french code for your mom being a streetwalker professional lady of the evening and how she services like 9500 black dudes at the dice games. hurrah