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Long Range Reconnaissance (Recon) Patrol.

Basically, groups of 3-8 men, often with some "indig" (ingenious personal, ie "locals") with them. Idea was to helicopter deep into Indian Country, with little regard for foolish things like international borders, gather intel on enemy movements, call in artillery and air strikes on them, scare them in their own rear areas, and when caught, run, pray and often die, in that order.

The unit that is most "noted" for this activity was "MAC-SOG," short for Military Assistance Command - Studies and Observation Group. The term Studies and Observation Group was used to make it sound innocuous and confuse anyone hearing it.

Most LRRPers worked in northern and northwest areas, near (and often over) Cambodian and Laotian borders.

Down in III Corps, SLRRPS (Short Little Ridiculous Recon Patrols) idea was to catch PAVN and hard corps VC units moving from Fishhook area down toward Saigon.

When US forces first OFFICIALLY entered Cambodia in '70, a guy I know once claimed "I was the first officer off the first chopper to touch down in Cambodia." Another guy, from SOG, piped up. "Yeah, it's true. He was. I was in the treeline watching him!"

U work in radio?

You know, I remember my husband talking about Cambodia. He was honorably discharged in '71 and was in Nam, and I guess possibly Cambodia, 12 months of '70-71.

I didn't know him then. We got married in '76. The whole time we were married, he always made it a point that we know Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants. My son wound up being an Asian Studies major, speciallizing in VietNam. His language ability has faded a bit, but at one time he was quite good. He was also the only non-Asian holding officer positions in the Vietnamese student club at Michigan. He was even voted president, but decided to be co-president w/a Vietnamese kid because it looked so weird for a non-Vietnamese to be head of the club!

I don't work in radio, but I love it. From all kindsa talk (including BBC and NPR as well as Rush and at one time Stern), to classic radio shows like Fibber McGee, to music of all types (rap isn't music).