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

Publisher's summary

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.

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.

Amazingly Brave Teams'

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

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.

Just an angry old man

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

Great book

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

MACV-SOG

I totally enjoyed listening about all our Viet Nam vet heroes who were involved in MACV-SOG, this is an area about the Viet Nam War that I have always been interested in, and you learn about the real story of BAT*21, the 1988 movie with Gene Hackman and Danny Glover. of coarse Hollywood told a slightly different version of the true story. The narrating could have been better, but it was still good. Recommended if you are into military history.

Phenomenal work

Loved it. Listening to the sacrifices of these two warriors brought tears to my eyes.

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.

The real story behind Bat 21

Outstanding account of frog men of MACV, the heroic deeds they themselves downplay as just doing their duty. Some may point out this or that on maybe narration, not me. The narration had me there and throughly briefed, tracking the mission as if I had been first man behind man on point. I recommend this read

Outstanding Story of Heroes

This was an excellent book and an amazing story. At first the narrator seemed a little off, but as you listen he does a great job. My Dad served three tours in Viet Nam and listening to this book brought back memories of what he would talk about. Definitely worth listening to and learning about some incredible heroes!

I'd be interested but

I'd be interested but Mr Keith McKim is not a professional narrator. The story seemed intresting however I kept catching myself daydreaming whilst listening to the book and missing quite a bit of information so I abandoned not knowing who what when most of the time.

Very good

It is something else to hear the voice of a 1-0 read the stories of other unbelievably brave soldiers and their endeavours. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, having listened to a lot of other books and podcasts about MAC-V SOG and Vietnam veterans.

Thank you so much for your service and your job writing, reading and publishing this excellent book Keith McKim.

Love from Norway.

A highly detailed account

This has given me more information on an era I knew little of. I'd seen the Bat 21 film and found the details describing the real event fascinating.
The people described in this account are truly hero's.

Amazing stories

Too short if anything wanted to hear more about SOG experiences and lead up to operations. Truly incredible stuff!

Amazing.

The bravery and determination of the SOG guys mentioned in this book is almost beyond belief. Well narrated, enlightening and well worth the listen.

high action, accessible read

Insightful look into the American military perspective of Vietnam. Although I don't agree with the politics, this was an excellent listen. The writing style is simple, impactful, and often hilarious. The Vietnamese guerillas are frequently referred to as "the bad guys". Americans opposing the war are callef "hippies" and "youthful idiots". The narration by the author is spot on - a martial story told by a martial man.