Codename Dynamite: Weapons of SOG LTC Dick Thompson MACV SOG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2023
- Dick Thompson served as a recon team leader with MACV SOG in 1968-70 at FOB1/CCN, Republic of Vietnam. He led 20 black operations deep into enemy territory, and lived to talk about it. In this video, Dick describes combat behind enemy lines in Laos, while serving with MACV SOG. In parts it is graphically described, so viewer discretion is recommended. Dick explains use of the many special weapons carried by SOG teams, and the psychology of extreme combat.
Dick's book SOG Codename Dynamite (part 1) is out on Amazon here:
www.amazon.com/stores/Henry-L...
Biography
LTC (Ret.) Henry (Dick) Thompson enlisted into the Army in 1967 at Fort Jackson, SC, as an 11B Infantryman. After completing Basic and Advanced Infantry training, he attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Infantry in January 1968.
After commissioning, Dick’s first assignment was as an Instructor, US Army Special Warfare School, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, NC, in February of 1968. In September of 1968 he was selected to be a team leader with MACV- SOG, 5th Special Forces Group, in the Republic of Vietnam. In January 1970, after finishing his combat tour (which included 20 recon missions with RT Virginia and RT Alabama), he was assigned as an instructor in the US Army Infantry School Ranger Department and stationed at Camp Frank D. Merrill, Dahlonega, GA. Dick served in several command and instructional and research roles until being assigned as the Professor of Military Science at the University of Georgia Army ROTC department in June 1986.
He retired from the US Army in January of 1988 after 21 years of military service. Dick’s military awards and decorations include 4 Bronze Star Medals, 2 with a “V” for heroism, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, 2 Air Medals for aerial combat, one with “V” for heroism, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry for Heroism. Now a senior executive, and psychologist, with over 30 years of leadership experience from the battlefield to the boardroom, Dick is an internationally recognized leader, consultant, scientist, educator and speaker who helps leaders and organizations move into the High Performance Zone.
00:00:27 Dead man walking
00:02:30 Personal weapons
00:05:00 Suppressed Sten / practising on the VC
00:06:31 .22 usage
00:08:10 Prisoner snatches
00:10:26 Sawn off M79
00:13:18 CAR-15 + 50 mags
(00:13:37 Loud noise)
00:17:03 Equipment for carrying a AK
00:18:25 Mostly saw AK’s
00:19:24 Listening to the sound of weapons fire
00:21:48 Claymores
00:24:15 Frag grenades
00:25:11 Willie Pete (White phosphorus)
00:25:51 NVA motivated and trained soldiers
00:26:49 Toe poppers
00:29:14 Psychology of enemy contact
(00:29:38 Dicks phone goes off)
00:30:23 Bladed weapons
00:32:28 Air support
00:33:16 Wrap up and finish - เกม
thanks everyone for watching the premiere tonight
Dick's amazing nerw bestselling book part 1 - features us in the foreword and appendix :)
www.amazon.com/SOG-Codename-Dynamite-MACV-SOG-Personal/dp/B0C9SB8JGP
more stuff coming - Dick on tactics and team training next week - be sure to hit "notify me"
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dick and cobra pilot col. barry pencek on air support
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Jocko podcast 401 just out
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Jocko and Dick - Don't sign up for SOG:
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Jocko and Dick: Dead man walking:
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Mike Glover ep. 104 with Dick
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To Dick. Did you meet a solder,- pilot named (GEORGE.L. SABER) MY UNCLE...HE WAS IN CHARGE OF AMMON AND FLEW MISSIONS IN LOAS HE ALSO FLEW IN THE 509TH IN WW2 BUT NOT THE NUKES...WE DID NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL AFTER THE FACT AS IT WAS SHUT UP BACK.IF ANYONE CAME ACROSS HIM ,ID LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ...FILL IN SOME BLANKS ..OH YE HE WAS IN CHAREGE OF THE BACK PAKS ( IF YOU SERVED THERE YOU WILL KNOW WHAT THERE WERE.
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I don’t want to minimise the work you’ve put into the prairie fire game, but these interviews will live on far longer as important historical information. Thank you for doing this.
That’s our plan in full - historical preservation in as much detail as we can gather!
the games, documentaries, graphic novels and tv show will hopefully have a broad appeal and reach while the item and memory preservation are timeless.
@b-52eggbeast88 you guys gotta pitch a TV series like band of brothers! I wish I had the connections to make it happen because I guarantee it would be a tremendous hit !
@b-52eggbeast88 "our?"
@@johnqpublic2718he's the CEO of Savage.
'you just have to shoot em more times'. Carrying 22lr is a hot topic within the 2A crowd. It's refreshing to hear SOG ran 'practice' missions using 22s.
Thing is, for personal defense as a civilian you need something that can incapacitate a threat immediately, not after an entire magazine, now like he said if you make good shot placement it can still put dicks in the dirt, but not optimal when you have a mf on top of you trying to stab/or rape you if youre cute enough and need to stop them asap
I have literally been shot in the head with a .22 LR from close range. Obviously, it did not kill me. The bullet ended up approximately 4" from entrance wound. It did not penetrate my skull. I still have the fucking thing from when the VA pulled it out about 3 years later. Not kidding at all.
Thank you for your service.... Vietnam was where special ops really showed and developed their craft. ❤
Steel balls, every one of the SOG warriors did enough to win a Metal of Honor! Thanks sir!
Love the historical accuracy you guys have achieved by speaking with these legends.
His r&r story is probably the most intense combat story out of hundreds if not thousands of veteran interviews I’ve listened to. I would love to see that on a screen. “Sorry about that!”
working on it!
WOW! Those are some very clever tactics! Thank you, Sir, for your service.
this is gold. thank you for your service LTC Thompson. you're an American Hero
Lol Special Forces from that time were the only ones to ever intentionally start a firefight and refer to it as “practice”. Love it!
Dick is the real deal. His books are amazing.
@@b-52eggbeast88 Yes I’ve watched most of the interviews with of the ones that are still with us.
Imagine finding out in the next life that you got smoked by a .22 just so some ninja could verify whether it worked not😂
So cool to see what was used in all the wars non declared... Thank you for your service to MIC
🧨 Dynamite in the building! 🧨 Once again another amazing interview with a true American bad ass! Mr. Thompson’s insight and debriefs bring a unique perspective on the retelling of these heroic SOG stories. Keep ‘em coming!
Could listen to this all day!!!
I bought the DLC the very day it came out. It's still being updated. It's by far the best DLC in ArmA 3 existence. Thanks to all the Veterans whose feedback made it possible and to their service and the stories they brought back home.
Loved the rather in depth talk about weapons, weapons choice and use, etc... Great and interesting interview. I'm eager for the next ones. 10/10
A have listened to his interview on Jocko's podcast for 4 hours while driving last night. It was epic! I'm going to order the book!
You wont regret it!
Excellent and very informative video! Bravo!
Great interview
He did a lot of inter views in DETAIL on Jocko podcast.
Unbelievable man !
Such a badass!
10 of 10 fellas
Love this stuff these guys were warriors the elite 😎
Awesome
I have some original SOG item's and kit if your ever interested !
Go Dawgs!
When's the 2nd book supposed to come out
Real soon (jan 24)
Them there CAR15s are worth a MINT if you can find/afford one!
Civvie clone is about 8-1200 dollars. For a high end one. It don't have the giggle switch but it's the same thing
Why are the little people so tall in game? That's something I always thought the game got wrong, why were the indig team members so tall? I know the nungs were tall but most indig were short
We were building it on top of Arma 3 (which probably had a dev budget around 40 million) with our own content (budget 2 million) and we had no way to change the engine without breaking all the other dlcs and mods. We had to work with what we had. In a future game we have plans to address this as well as string extractions.
Did you say you carried 50 magazines? Thanks for sharing
Yeah, and 3rd burst a decade and a half before it was devised
@@nategross7568 when you use full auto enough it's easy to control the amount of rounds you fire per trigger pull. What I got from this interview was he would use 3rd bursts and sometimes do a full mag dump.
Eldon Bargewell was my commanding general and as such he was very different than most other generals (even most SF generals) I’d been around. No pontificating, no BS, he never raised his voice, but neither was he cold or distant. He was a true “quiet professional” I gauge an officer by how much falderal like plaques, trophies, and souvenirs they have in their office. Generally the more junk they have on display the bigger the douche bag they are. Bargewell’s office had very little “Look how great I am!” crap. Frankly we were all in awe of him.
I wonder did he have his AK and vest in there and a set of range ears. Eldon was on Dick's first team in SOG. He and Dick got along real well. We have Ken Bowra also in our team, Ken is a similar general to your description of Eldon.
The only thing of note that I remember, seeing in his office, was a picture of him in Vietnam. He was standing in front of a UH-1 wearing spray painted jungle fatigues, holding a sawed off RPD, and atop his head was a German stahlhelm. What really struck me is how much he looked like the same guy that was in Vietnam-he had aged VERY well. And that picture was in an obscure part of his office half hidden behind a high back chair. The only reason I saw it was that I had an appointment to brief him on something and he was on the phone and he waved me in. His office was long and narrow and to give him privacy I lingered by the entrance and saw this black and white photo kinda stuck in the corner. I really liked Bargewell. He was so unlike most of the GO’s I’d encountered. In fact he was like the “anti-Boykin” (who I REALLY REALLY didn’t like).This last time I saw Bargewell was IIRC 2008 in front of the Camp Travis gym next to the Republican Palace in Baghdad and we stopped and chatted. @@SavageGameDesign
OK, I’m all effed up in my dates, Bargewell couldn’t have been in Baghdad in 2008 cuz’ he retired in 2006, so I musta met him in 2005 or 06 there.
it seems that a lot of the SOG Forces were avid hunters before the became America's Finest.
What state is this warrior from? Just curious...
He’s Georgia through and through
I wonder if Dick was a fur Trapper when he was a teenager.
He was a woodsman/ hunter from the age of about 4, well discussed in his book.
Did he really say 50, (fifty) mags?
Hello
Isn't SOG the CIA's paramilitary section?
No, the CIA ran their own operations in Laos and Cambodia, and projects like Phoenix in South Vietnam. MACV SOG was like today's JSOC, in that it was a top secret multi-branch military special mission unit reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington DC, and to the president. They had connections to the CIA, and often ran missions in support of CIA objectives but they were military, with indigenous mercenaries paid by the US State Department.
LOTS OF HUMPING
EXPERIENCE TOUGH
Stone cold.
pro-tip - play this at 1.5 speed or faster - much more listenable
or breathe 1.5 times slower and live longer too :)
glad you enjoyed it