MACV SOG Interviews with warriors - Bill Spurgeon SOG Special Forces Vietnam veteran Part 1
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- Interviews with warriors - laid back interviews between my Vietnam War Special Forces friends and contacts. It has taken me years to gain their trust. First I was allowed to publish their stories in my publication Pucker Factor stories of MACV SOG and now I cautiously ask them for a recorded interview. These warriors will not be with us forever. My goal is to get their stories in their own words out there for the public to read and understand what these covert warriors of MACV SOG did during the Secret war of the Vietnam conflict.
So awesome Daddy - so so proud you are my Daddy! LOVE YOU!!!!!
This is getting a lot of views!
Bill has one of the stories we as Americans should be so proud of. Thank you for your awesome service Bill. You are among the greatest to serve.
He is a warrior that is for sure !
I have the pucker factor book where bill talks about operation ashtray! I cant wait for the second part
Bill is a cool trooper. I remember him from Nam...
You will be on here soon enough my friend!
Gotta Love that DOORS intro✊
Looking forward to this interview. Cheers from Baltimore ☘️
make sure you watch part 2
Absolutely great !! Once again. They were there and did that. Awesome Warriors. Thank Jason, you and Bud are doing great job and I do appreciate that.
Thanks again!
Thank you 🙏 just trying to keep the stories alive
The 46th Special Forces Company assisted Thai forces in resisting Communist guerrilla activity along the Laotian border and in the south on the Malay Peninsula. The origin of the 46th Special Forces Company was D Company, 1st Special Forces Group which was activated 15 April, 1967 in Thailand.
THank you, shared with the rest of the "Gross" family
Thanks ~!!
Great video great interview. I can’t stop watching and listening to VIETNAM stories, back then we had no idea what these HEROS went through, shame on the government…..
These men were BOYS young teenagers 17 18 19 and 20. Some of these young boys celebrated their 21st birthdays in that hell hole.
I salute each and every one of the veterans, thank you so much for all you sacrificed for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🇺🇸
The land of the free and the home of the 🇺🇸
God bless
I will keep doing the interviews.
I'm very glad to see you doing these interviews.
I've been listening to Tilt Meyer's program, but that's a tall order for one man to interview all of the SOG guys that are still out there, I'm sure. 🇺🇸
will be doing a third with bill soon.
and if Tilt has time one with me!
Great Interview🤙
FWIW, SOG Warriors are Brothers, not "friends."
Continued Success🍻
RP
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Yah, absolutely!!
I like your interview style🤙
Stay Well👊
RP
42:40 I had little doubt that they DIDN'T take an SR-71, so I looked up what a Blackbird was. It was a C-130 with a black & green paint color scheme. 👍🏻✈️
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There will be more from Bill very soon.
MRS ALEXANDER - Special Operations Association
April 27, 2019 ·
Mrs. Billye Alexander, or Mrs. ‘A’ as she was known, was the Special Forces NCO assignment officer at the Pentagon before and during the Vietnam war. There were photos of her posted several years ago on a tribute website, but that website has since disappeared.
The SOA has dedicated a web page, with the lost photos, to Mrs 'A' , the unofficial Special Forces "Guardian Angel". You can view the page at
specialoperations.org/billyea.htm
There is also a CCS-SOG page with a nice biography of Billye at
ccs-sog.org/.../mrs-billye-alexander-ccs-sog.../
Transcribed news article from May 1967: PENTAGON 'MOTHERS' ARE BUSY (By Jerry T. Baulch)
A couple of Special Forces Green Beret fighters in Vietnam got to wondering whether their Pentagon 'mother' would receive a letter if they merely addressed it to "Mrs. A., The Pentagon." So they tried it.
They figured, they wrote Mrs. Billye Alexander, that "you are famous enough to be known by even the lowest postal clerk since a least half of the S-F men write you letters from all parts of the world." Their letter, asking for nothing but giving thanks for past favors, went right to Mrs. Alexander, and no questions asked.
Mrs. Alexander is one of the many Pentagon 'mothers' who look into the problems of GIs around the world. Some probably should be called 'fathers' since they are men. Each of the Army's many branches has a 'mother' such as Mrs. Alexander. And the other services have similar setups.
Last year the Army 'mothers' received over 105,000 letters a month. The problems posed are countless but mainly involve requests for preferred assignments (efforts are made to assign each man where he asks if it is possible.) And there are queries about other personal problems, such as schooling opportunities or family matters.
A pretty, brown eyes blonde, Mrs. Alexander doesn't particularly care for the title of 'mother' - because "so many of them are a lot older than I am." But she still habitually refers to them with sparkling eyes as "my boys."
"It's a sort of mutual love affair."
"Sometimes one of them is passing through at 2 in the morning and calls me," she says. "I don't mind, but if anybody else telephoned me at that hour I'd probably chew his head off."
Her husband - a civilian in Army finance - doesn't object to her spending so much time with her "boys". Many have been guests at their home.
Mrs. Alexander talked one of her two sons, a University of Maryland student, into putting a Special Forces sticker on his car. Some Army men hailed him with "Hey, Special Forces, what outfit?"
I'm not Special Forces," the youth shouted back. "It's my mother."
"Oh, Mrs. Alexander," the solders said as they drove off.
When I was asking Bill about his German SGT and was he a WW2 Vet this is what i was talking about - The Lodge-Philbin Act was a U.S. law, which allowed for the recruiting of foreign nationals into a military force, fighting under the command of the U.S. armed forces. If they successfully served five years with an honorable discharge, they were guaranteed U.S. citizenship The act was passed on 30 June 1950 during the cold war.
Lodge-Philbin Act Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc.
definitions.uslegal.com/l/lodge-philbin-act/ If you wish to know more about this topic purchase my first book Pucker Factor stories of MACV SOG 1 - Foreign Nationals in MACV SOG - We explore the introduction of foreign nationals into the ranks of MACV SOG and the Lodge Philbin Act.in MACV SOG - get the expanded version.
I was born in the Spring of 1966 in Thailand near a village by Takhli RTAFB...got "relocated" to Alabama in 1975 after coming over in 1973...ended up on an attack sub for my first free trip back home in 1986....thanks Uncle Sam!!! Roll Tide!!!😂🤠🐘
I Remember that had two friends die of that on base they took them somewhere. Yes they did I was going through it,it was hard.
Cant be easy to loose friends.
more interviews from the SF warriors please !
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I’ve spoke to dirty joe messer about the monsoon mission and it was a nightmare! I’ve got photos of everyone including Ed Wolcoff is greeting them . Trench /Immersion foot so bad their skin came off with the boots .. also ran out of food and water.. I didn’t know bill was with Joe till recently
Hi,from France..🤣😍🤗I love these guys,they are something else than today's pussies who don't want to serve,and faint if you show them a water pistol...or start running to the nearest psy trying to be allowed to return to mama and their usual drugs!...
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are there going to be more interviews with Bill? If so when
Another one tomorrow !
I was entranced by my grandfather's who I have pictures on the wall, all of them have FULL BONNETS some all they way down to the ground, their stories and faces pushed me to become the best soldier in any war. I was privately acknowledged by the US on my return in hospital but because my missions with SF and SOG were private, some of us will never be known because all missions were in 'OTHER" countries.
My father was frank maiorano mac v sog!!
email me jcollins101@outlook.com
Was this the SGM Spurgeon who was at North Georgia College during the late 1980’s?
Yep, that's me!
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the above has a link to my book with Bills story of operation ashtray
Annoying music in long intro.
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You bought 4 fake rolexs
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Nope. Didn't buy four, bought about 20, at the Rolex Store in Hong Kong. Didn't buy them at the night market!
Big ol' Balls
Ex Waffen SS. Were serving everywhere. Dont know much do you fella.😊