Special Operations Vets React SOG Prairie Fire 

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An uncle of mine was a door gunner on a Huey in ‘Nam and took a round from a PKM in the back while rescuing his best friend. His friend was finished off by that same burst from the PKM. Doctor said he would never walk again and he said, “To hell with that.” and now walks like a champ with just a cane and a limp. Strongest man I’ve ever known.

The game even includes only having 18 rounds in those 20 round mags because the guys would never fully pack the mags because the springs would get fucked and cause failure to feed problems.

Also unrelated, don't be afraid to pause the video. I don't know about my fellow viewers but the longer the runtime the better, and being able to clearly hear our hosts is important to me , at least

One of the main reasons why they used AK's was so that if the enemy started shooting at them when they shot back the enemy would think that they were shooting at their own guys

Listen to the MACV SOG interviews on the Jocko podcast if you haven't already. It's legitimately mind blowing. Very possibly the most hitterest hitters ever known to man.

It's for a good reason ArmA 3 is loved by military vets, currently serving, and other military-interested people for sure.

I love playing RTO in the "MIKE FORCE" servers, you can turn the radio on and listen to the chatter, its authentic declassified radio comms from the war. So COOOOL!

The man in the olive drab cammie is General Vang Pao. He was hired by the CIA to lead the Hmong people along Americans to combat the Vietnamese. He’s a legend in the Hmong community

Jason asked the SOG one zero's about what medical they carried and I was astonished at how it was basically, bandages/cravats and some blood expander that sucked lol. Jimi Shorten is a bad ass dude anyone wanting to learn about SOG should listen to his interview on Savage Game Design's channel. The men of SOG, both those who came back and those who didn't, should have our undying respect regardless of your persuasion.

Arma 3, in general, is the most awesome thing invented in gaming. It's definitively the game I have the most hours in. I'm no war vet, but I did my dues for King and country, so with what I know, it's up there among the most realistic milsims.

Jockos podcast 181 with John Stryker Meyer is fucking amazing. S.o.g. was absolutely insane. Balls the size of Volkswagen

Arma is one of the few games that is consistently played (In the MilSIm Units at least) by Prior service veterans. It is in a way a game to play when you feel like being back in the Army for a few hours without re-enlisting for years. Most milsim missions consist of walking for hours and talking about military service followed by 15 minutes of gun fire.

It becomes a “shoot and loot” once you burn through your 25ish mags and the VC are overwhelming the LZ

My grandfather was MACV SOG in Vietnam, Marine Reconnaissance He retired at E9, MGySg

It is so awesome that they declassified all this stuff. SOG dudes and Nam SEALs are beyond legit! Listen to Dick Thompson or John Stryker Meyer on Jocko. Those dudes are legendary!

Such a privilege that this has been declassified, these men definitely deserve recognition and respect for what they did. Absolute legends through and through. The true definition of a hero.

I was happy to see this. To make sure everyone knows, all of this is in Arma 3, and can be made in Arma 3.

Awesome fun as always guys - let's get you in the game soon. Charlie is waiting... Game details: www.sogpf.com Footage featured in the review is from ShermanatorYT: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M7vmmkHF7V4.html Dick Thompson interview #1 of 3 with Jocko: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TlAoAZIAxQI.html Tilt Meyer interview #1 of 6 with Jocko ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNyo7DZ0QBY.html

Yeah, the Vietnamese, especially Ho Chi Minh and his Generals were largely incredibly competent leaders. It's especially astounding when you consider that these leaders all learned their craft almost from scratch. They learned from text books and war diaries and humiliated the French first, and eventually the US as well. There was this pervasive belief in the US Armed Forces at the time, mostly among the top brass; that the US' Army could defeat any small nation through shear Economic Might alone. It makes sense to a degree, I mean that's what World War II taught Generals and Political Leaders in the West (Russia learned the blood price lesson). The issue of course is that at that point, the US Army had almost no real experience or frame of reference as a Nation fighting to defend their own borders. The closest the US got was the War of 1812, and perhaps technically the Civil War. The US was entering into a culturally very different nation. The terrain was not exactly suited to combined arms in the least, which significantly hindered the United State's capabilities. The situation facing the US Forces in Vietnam at the time was such that commanders felt they had little to no choice but to send Squads on Patrols into areas where NVA were suspected. Not to go in and clean them out, but to instead serve as bait to draw the NVA into the open. At that point the Patrol would call in artillery and / or air support to try and kill as many of the NVA as they could. In the long run this ruined morale, and ended up giving many soldiers a sense that their commanding officers considered them nothing more than Cannon Fodder. That's why you hear about Fragging happening so much during the Vietnam war. Nowadays, the top brass in the US Forces are a little bit wiser these days. - First we have the whole "Hearts and Minds" initiative. This, in part, includes actually educating soldiers about the culture they're about to get thrown into. The rest involves several programs and initiatives to provide food, medical care and other services to those affected by the war. Sure, this happened to an extent in Vietnam, but nowadays it's considered a far more integral part of any foreign Campaign. - Then there's generally knowing how to fight Insurgents far more effectively than previously. That's more or less what Vietnam was, at least in tactical style. Proper counter-insurgency tactics play a key role in modern conflicts, many of those lessons were learned in Vietnam.

The Field of Jars is a burial place they put body's inside the jars in a sitting posture then put a stone lid over them.

Always love seeing these guys pop up in my news feed, makes it even better being Arma 3.

I love that flag you guys got there, that should be part of your merchandise

Wave after wave of VC. At night while trying to build a fob. No modern weapons. Enemy screaming talking. Tracers frags petrol bombs. Scary to play gets the heart going.

Some of them wore canteen pouches because canteen pouches can hold more magazines which I thought was a cool detail that they took from history

We NEEEED a SAVAGE ACTUAL podcast asap tbh you guys def got enough to talk about and should know enough people to have gnarly interviews should 100% kick it off when you do the Mac v sog shit with John Stryker not to mention the $$$ podcast is making rite now @SavageActual

Also jockos has 3 episodes with dick thompson and that dude is a fucking legend. Hard as they come.

Awesome work as always y'all. Fun to see your reactions to this project that's been brewing so long now! It's such a great honor to help tell their story - and a huge responsibility to get it right. Appreciate y'all this is just great.

The content you guys put out is getting better, and better, and better!

Awesome video guys! I’m glad Stryker Meyer was involved and the other SOG guys that makes it that much more kick ass. I’m a stickler for realism.

I remember when I first got in to the DLC I joined a match that happened to be run by Sav, who a believe was the creative director for this DLC (from memory). It was really cool talking to him and learning about how the team went about making this DLC

My father was in the Vietnamese communist army, but he was too young to fight in the Vietnam war. He was a Laotian that happened to be living in Vietnam, and got into their special forces as a radio operator as part of a sapper team. My dad is fluent in Laotian, Vietnamese and French and that helped him a lot at the time. As a special unit, he told me they had freedom of choice to pick their own weapons and he chose the m1 carbine because of how heavy his radio was. He usually didn’t talk about his experience, but one night when he was drunk with his friends, he told me during the sino-Vietnamese war, they took heavy casualties. The outpost was in a remote mountainous area, and there was heavy rain. So they were unable to evacuate the bodies from their camp. He had to sleep near the dead bodies for a few days. He was wounded in the leg during a firefight and medically discharged. Of course he moved to the states back in the 80s. I guess that war messed him up and he hates communism.

Yay more arma videos lets go!!! also this arma CDLC really kicked ass it's amazing

Sorry I missed you's guy's. I was away visiting my kids and then a wedding for one of my PJ brothers... Jimi Jones-Shorten "Wild Carrot"

Would love to see John Stryker-Meyer on for a war stories and beer 💯👍🏻

my grandpa flew a f-80 in vietnam laying down WP so napalm could hit their target. He flew a lot of other planes and missions throughout his air force career, but damn i wished i asked him more about his time in Vietnam. I was a kid sadly and didn't understand the value of true stories like that from actual people, especially people related to me. If you ever have a chance to ask about history, don't let it slip. there's not that many left

You can also play this content with other mods and make it even more challenging and realistic. My group uses the ACE3 Medical system combined with KAT Medical, so when someone goes down you absolutely have to employ TCCC effectively if you even want a chance to get them back up. ACE3 adds many different types of wounds, anything from minor abrasions to large crush wounds, punctures, avulsions, bone fractures, lacerations, etc. KAT Medical also expands things further to include features like airway management. As a lead medic, you might regularly have 2-3 guys working on one patient applying tourniquets, splints, checking vitals, performing CPR, setting up IVs (saline, plasma, Blood - make sure it's the right type), checking for airway obstructions, applying hemostatic agents for clotting while packing wounds, then wrapping them up with elastic bandages, etc. The way we prefer to play: if you have a severe wound, you must be moved to a higher level of care to get a "full heal" before you're able to be reinserted back into the fight as a "reinforcement". And that depends on MEDEVAC / CASEVAC / transport availability. The challenge of managing a mass casualty event, compiling ACE and MIST reports, throwing together a 9-Line, directing LZ operations for extract, etc. just adds a level of game play that simply doesn't exist in any other game. Arma 3 can be played just about any way you want to play it.

At 25:00 Looks like the Plain of Jars in Laos, from my limited understanding they had importance in funerary customs, some of the jars have full bodies inside. Very old and very fascinating location. Definitely worth looking into some more.

Love macv/sog. Tilt, Savage and those guys are beast man!! The true SF guys man!! Smh truly badasses!!

Yes I was gonna ask you guys to watch this

I love El Cid's Peace Train story! Never think of of that song the same way again.

Hey Jason,referring to episode 1 what does a 50 Cal look like when it hits a person?

SOG inovated foregrips, red dot sights, and a variety of other weapon modifications that are still in use today.

ARMA is the type of video game where you can get War veteran PTSD and military EP

00:29 Just so u guys know... the dudes on this picture are not Marines. As a matter o fact, they ain’t even U.S troops... they are South Vietnamese soldiers.

Shit got so intense even the dog got hyped up.

One of better sog vids iv seen, always interesting seeing guys like this with arma etc have they reacted to any sqaud stuff?

Loved the reactions, I really like how you don't pull punches and are brutally honest. I think that's one of the biggest incentives for watching this channel- we get the raw, unadulterated view of two Ex-SOFs. Anyways, keep up the good work, and I'd suggest analyzing big battles of history so we can get your tactical takes on waging warfare!

Clearance Clearwater Run Through The Jungle needs to be playing right about now.

That tall white guy in the picture at 1:20 is actually from Easy Company from the show Band of Brothers, and he helped start Delta Force. His name is Burr Smith, you can look him up. He wasn't shown in the show Band of Brothers though.

I genuinely did not know this was made by the Unsung team until I watched this video... guess that shows how much research I did.

Having put almost 100 hours into this game since buying it last Month I can honestly say it is the best and most intense gaming experience I have had in over 25 years

Oh man I would love to watch you guys actually sit down and talk to Vietnam vets and drink bear. My uncle fought in nam so he doesn't like to talk about it. This is close as I can get to learning of what my uncle went through

All the videos this week! You guys are spoiling us! Love the Savage flag btw

Y’all need to start an arma group, where your fans who have arma, can join you in maybe a monthly operation and connect a bit. I feel like SAVAGE Actual would skyrocket if y’all posted a once a month arma operation with the community.

3:47 Prior to modern times, Vietnam projected their military strength onto Cambodia and Laos (so much so that Cambodia was a vassal state fairly recently prior to the war), so it’s less that they “got something out of it” and more that they just didn’t want to piss them off

Have you guys considered testing out/reacting to virtual reality shooters like Pavlov/Contractors? Could be a cool video idea!

Do they have a, "Napalm and Rotting Jungle" scented candle? :)

You guys should check that Russian live fire training video and the footage they released showing them in action.

For anyone that's interested check out the jock podcast John Stryker Meyer episodes. They're bat shit crazy stories. I listened to them multiple times.

Love to see the production quality raising every episode. Keep it up guys, entertaining as always.

Arma is a ton of fun when people take it juuust seriously enough. Some people go way too overboard with how serious they take the game and it can kill the fun, but keeping units organized is almost always a must. People that are super into role playing for this game tend to get mad at me when I'm intoxicated on a weekend and volunteer to be a squad leader or higher, though.

"no acogs, all they had was something taken off of a hunting rifle" Incorrect, Vietnam was actually the war that saw the first use of an early version of a red dot sight, it was a called the Armson OEG which while pretty uncommon for regular soldier use, would have definitely been used by spec op guys. Give it a Google.

Love the react video, I cant wait to see you guys playing it yourself, plain of jars are actually natural rock formations that look like giant jars made by giants. shame yer poor wee dug lost studio time for that one woof ! he was doin a concern

The sog vets playing arma 3 should make a twitch or youtube channel!

The only problem with this mod is something that developers can't do sht about, that is the fact that players will use headsets to communicate. In RL, low-tech warfare in jungles have a challenge of it's own, that is to communicate. Jungles are very muffed but, yet, "silence-ish" enough to let any fart bein heard (and smelled) a few hundred yards away. One of focuses in SIGS course is to teach how to sound like the jungle and don't sound like anything else. Until the late 90 or early 2000's, personal radios were like alien-tech in South America (probably in Vietnam too), but even nowadays our recruits have to learn the old ways, because in jungle environment you can't rely even in modern equipment... so, still aim with the irons, learn to aways have an eye in your comrades hands/faces and don't let the jungle eat you. Thanx for this video! Cheers!

Guys, when it comes to content, you always deliver. To piggyback on your recent SCP react vid, if you want to see a game that blends a military FPS with paranormal elements, check out a series called F.E.A.R. It’s incredible.

my grandfather was usmc stationed in the An Hoa pronounced "An Wah" that village is actually in the game, sadly his combat base isnt in the game. but he was there as a machine gunner during the Tet Offensive. he said the same shit, you cant see the enemy most of the time (besides the tet when they ran 10ft up to him) he said you can smell them in the jungle, he also said the same thing, when you get ambushed you shit your pants, youre shaking, you lay down and just start shooting blindly, he says your not even looking, youre just shoving your face in the ground to get lower. they all smoked weed nobody gave a fuck. it was a free for all on what weapons you can take with you, hed take his m60, or a thompson, or 2 m2 carbines sawed off to be pistols. m79 grenade launchers, but he said most of the time the enemy was within the safety det range on the grenades so the 40mm would just go into the enemy, theyed run and blow up as soon as they got out of that range. for some reason im the only one he really told this shit too. he mostly just likes to talk about hookers and smoking weed when he was in vietnam tho. he also laughed about butt stocking little kids away because they would run up and steal shit out of your pockets, sometimes putting hand grenades in marines pockets. south koreans had a base near him outside the an hoa village, he said they were fucking brutal, they would waste civilians if one guy shot at them from the village, and the south koreans would cut off everyones head and put them on their chest which he took a lot of pictures off. and americans 100% put skulls on spikes outside their base, and dudes would have ear necklaces. vietnam seems like fucking hell on earth.

My dad was doing all that same stuff in Cambodia and 69 and 70 as an airborne raider with the third brigade of the 82nd airborne division before the airborne raiders were folded into the 75th ranger regiment with l.r.r.p's

You guys are so close the 100k

Awesome, I did not know this part of the story of Vietnam of the S.O.G guys. Really interesting. Also, y'all real mean to the dog, like come on, maaaan xD

oh damn, they feature shermanator's gameplay. no wonder the voice is so familiar.

Can’t wait for the day we get an A4 teaser 🤞🙏

Clarification: "S.O.G. Prairie Fire" is D.L.C. (downloadable content) for "Arma 3"; you need Arma 3 in order to play Prairie Fire; it is not a standalone game. A3 is a sandbox and it is highly modifiable. If you never use the first-person (you can use third-person or even a top-down) perspective and never fire a weapon, you can still have fun in Arma. There are mods that make wind and temperatures affect ballistics, add a relatively in-depth medical system, add turbulence and the possibility for air resistance to rip off wings, add the ability to drag bodies, or add vehicles and guns, etc.

I hear Shermanator's voice in the gameplay footage.

In the game you can build your own FOB

What would happen with snorers in this situation? I mean, if you're sleeping getting ready for a mission in the middle of the jungle, surely snorers would compromise you? Some sound like an Apache helicopter taking off.

Glad to see yalls take on the game. Was an honor to meet you that night in the Zoom call Jason. Semper Fi brother. I was honored to be a part of this amazing team and got to lend my voice to the DLC. Was so glad to see the actual vets involved with the story and so many military vets involved in the development. Rob, Sav, Sam, myself, and many others served in their respective nations militaries and lent their love and passion to this project. It is something to see vets making games based on their experiences instead of all the same old "Hollywood" gameplay that we have been fed over the years. Keep up the great work guys, loving it.

Reacting to game: "I can say with confidence, that this is in fact a video game."

MACV-SOG Military Assistance Command, Vietnam - Studies and Observations Group

Can't lead a 5 hour 15km patrol in COD or BF. Nothing like a long slow walk in the mountains with the boys.

I love your videos but you should maybe invest into personnel microphone that you stick onto your shirt so the quality of audio gets a little bit better. Edit: im dumb just after writing this comment i noticed you allready have that but i do feel either the settings of these microphones are not good or the microphone itself it has a weird effect on it so that you can hear you sre sitting in a big room or something

They’re not just using the same engine as arma 3 it’s actual downloadable content (dlc) for arma 3

Arma is the best game ever....there are numerous DLCs abailable but this is by the far the best. very well made

Fuck imaging Jason with m79 is badass, especially one so damn old 😂

You guys should watch one of those milsim air soft videos

Are you using 07 army universal camouflage as the background?

I wanna watch these guys rip apart a sovietwomble video lol

Oooh arma! ❤️

Guys. When y'all talk turn the volume of the game down. You 're comments about games/tactics and history are far more important than the narrative of the clip you are reviewing!

Feel like there was a missed opportunity to open with some classic rock...

I would love to play arma with you guys sometimes, I have some experience making missions and with the right mods it's for sure one of the most intense games!!

we are playing every sunday (1500 eastern) with a veteran MACV SOG 1-0 leading the team - here's a recent game example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EdidY8uzKCI.html We'd love to see you guys jump in for one! Jason just hit me up in discord if you have a free sunday afternoon.

As I started living in laos and learned the history, it interests me to get the insight of veterens of both sides, met a reconaissance marine who was stationed in Laos, forgot the operation but he showed pictures of his downed helicopter when I visited him in the states. love these videos!

MACV-SOG the only unit to ever have more than 100% casualty rate

I would highly advise, if you want to interject with some comments pause the video, it was very hard trying to hear you over the narrator during the intro to SOG

Wow this new dlc looks really good I'll definitely pick it up

Gentlemen My Name is Richard A Fitts Jr I am a "GOLD STAR" son of a fallen SOG warrior.& personally know some of these gents.Rob Graham & ARMA III just recently added a virtual Memorial Plaque for my father & the 6 other Green Berets Killed on the same mission at the end of this game in the "ELDEST SON" mission Would love to get in contact with you guys. (bare w/ me fairly new to some of this social media)

Tilt said in an interview that Macv/sog had 120% casualties...

Respect from Russia ✊🏽