• US Navy SOG SEALs

  • The MACV-SOG Medal of Honor Recipients Series, Book 2
  • By: Keith McKim
  • Narrated by: Keith McKim
  • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (590 ratings)

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US Navy SOG SEALs

By: Keith McKim
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Based on the true stories of the two US Navy Seals operating behind enemy lines in Vietnam with the super top-secret unit MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Special Operations Group)

US Navy Seal Lieutenant Tom Norris, on three separate occasions over a four-day period, with no sleep, went behind enemy lines to rescue two downed air force pilots. Using stealth tactics, he was able to get though or around hundreds of North Vietnamese to rescue one pilot. The second pilot - hungry, thirsty, and having lost 40 pounds - was disoriented and unable to help in his rescue. Norris, with the help of one Vietnamese Seal, was able to safely bring the pilot back inside US lines.

Six months later, US Navy Seal Mike Thornton was on a top-secret mission with Lieutenant Norris behind enemy lines. Chinese junks dropped them off 10 miles north of their target. After swimming to shore, the team conducted a recon mission but was discovered the following morning by North Vietnamese. Fighting their way to the South China Sea, they began swimming out to sea. All were wounded, but Thornton, himself wounded and using a breast stroke, was able to tow or push the whole team out to sea until they were rescued.

This was the first time in the history of the Medal of Honor that one recipient got the medal for rescuing another recipient - and each was able to witness the other's ceremonies.

©2018 Dave German / Keith McKim (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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great stories, awful audio, biased perspective

This book could easily be 5 stars across the board.
The stories are fantastic, and while most of us might be aware of them, there is a lot more depth that was fascinating.

Author's recording mic makes the audio sound like it was recorded on an 8-track. Also, despite the narrator and author being the same person, the story is poorly told, with awkward pauses in the middle of sentences.
Sadly, the author also dishonors the legacy of these brave men by inserting his personal politics into the story. No one cares what he feels "the socialist-communist media", or "the Democratic congress", the "Godless communists" etc. Tell the story, and leave your skewed politics and faith out of it.

For those of us that listen to a lot of military history on audiobooks, this one is pretty difficult to get through.

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Just an angry old man

I turned it off when he couldn’t shut up about the democratic congress or liberal colleges.

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Amazingly Brave Teams'

It unbelievable how the Aviator's, worked to save Team's on the ground & vice-versa awesome!!

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God bless our fighting men and women.

Incredible story.
Audio quality isn’t great bit of an echo in the background.
Leave no man behind.

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Pretty poor but a story about exteodinaray people.

Good story with a very poor reading and some very biased opinions. You can hear the narrator turning pages and slurring words.

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Great book

loved it, great stories very detailed was not hard to finish listening to this book.

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Barely listenable

Since this guy couldn't stop with the politics, he should have been a politician. Seems to me, he disrespects the stories and the characters with his total inability to just tell the stories and be propagandizing. Then there is the old cassette tape audio, pretty bad all in all.

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This book is mostly right wing grievances

Don't waste your time, there are much better sources for this information that isn't being conveyed by war mongers with an agenda.

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a unforgivable error.

while speaking of the second day of the tempted to recover that 21, the author refers to the aircraft in the area being fired upon by Chinese 51 mm machine guns. somebody needs to go back to school and learn of chicom machine guns. there is no such thing is a 51 mm machine gun. most likely he was attempting to refer to it as a 51 caliber machine gun. this error is totally

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Great story poorly told

US Navy SOG SEALs, The MACV-SOG Medal of Honor Recipients Series, Book 2, by Keith McKim (2018, audiobook 4 hrs 44 min). This book tells an important, inspiring story told in an uninspiring, politically-tainted manner. Two books about Medal of Honor winner Lt. Tom Norris that are much better written are Bat-21 and The Rescue of Bat-21. A third book, written by the two MOH winners in this book, Lt. Norris and Lt. Michael Thornton, is Honor Bound, but it’s still in my to-read stack. McKim’s book tells the story of Lt. Norris rescuing a downed Air Force flyer in Vietnam and, later, his rescue by Lt. Thornton in another action in Vietnam. For good reading, skip this book and read one of the other three volumes.

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