Project Prairie Fire event
also: Prairie Fire
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Vietnamcountry · 2Special Operations Grouporganization · 220th Special Forces Grouporganization · 1North Vietnameseorganization · 1Nungorganization · 1Ho Chi Minh Trailplace · 1Pony Expressorganization · 1Operation Steel Tigerevent · 1Thailandcountry · 1
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The Project Shining Brass, which was the SOG's code name for the cross-border patrols, the Nung, N-U-N-G, were given final training by the Vietnamese, and the patrols became more extensive in 1965. The SOG code name was changed from Prairie…
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from special forces camps into Vietnamese border region. The patrols identified the Ho Chi Minh Trail routes and marked them for bombing by Steel Tiger. This effort was supplemented by a road watch program in which the patrols scouted for s…
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To help move the road watch teams, Prairie Fire executed over 250 missions in 67 alone, including patrols penetrating as far as 12 miles into Laos, where they're not supposed to be. But in 68, in addition to the Green Berets serving in the …