Tactical Tuesday With SOG Legends Episode 93
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Tonight we have John Stryker Meyer and John L. Plaster as guests on our Livestream. I am told by them, that this is the first time that both of these legends have been on the same podcast together. Gonna be a great show!!!
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I Can’t get enough of John Stryker Meyer and John L. Plaster combat stories individually nevertheless together!!! Never judge a book by its cover, These are two of the most Badass Grandfather’s who have ever lived!
These Teams are absolutely Legendary.
I want to screen-write these stories with these Legends at this age w/ their Brothers and use these insane stories/missions.
Part#1 Use fictional setting and fictional larger mission objective but use all of these missions exactly described.
Part#2
Use the real setting and real objectives in Vietnam,Laos ect. And no one would believe any of it was real!
Respect 🫡 ,Speechless
I haven’t laughed so much, and learned so much at the same time, just listening to these incredible stories. Y’all are legends.
Two absolute legendary warriors. The things they did and survived are frightening just to read about! I've read Plaster's two SOG books and am almost finished with Meyers' Across the Fence. Highly recommended.
Thanks TR for having Tilt and John Plaster on tonight what an amazing livestream. I could listen to these gentlemen all night.
Absolute legends ! The audio version of SOG is on the apple bookstore and the Audible app, I just got my copy ! Thank you Karl and Chad for the stream.
Read some of his stuff, it is excellent, but he is even better in person! Thank you guys for everything!
Great stories from these MAC SOG-V guys. Thanks for getting them together.
One hell of a great show. Thank you for the stories, the laughs, and your service gentleman.
Glad you enjoyed it
William Waugh
(Born December 1, 1929) is a former United States Army Special Forces soldier and Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operations officer who served more than 50 years between the U.S. Army's Green Berets and the CIA's Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016
Waugh enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1948, completing basic training at Fort Ord, California, in August of that year. He was accepted into the United States Army Airborne School and became airborne qualified in December 1948. In April 1951, Waugh was assigned to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) in Korea.
Shortly after the end of the Korean War, Waugh met two Special Forces members on a train in Germany, they informed him of openings for Platoon sergeants, shortly after he requested a transfer. He began training for the Special Forces. He earned the Green Beret in 1954, joining the 10th Special Forces Group (SFG) in Bad Tölz, West Germany.
As U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War increased, the United States began deploying Special Forces "A-teams" (Operational Detachment Alpha, or ODA, teams) to Southeast Asia in support of counterinsurgency operations against the Viet Cong, North Vietnamese and other Communist forces. Waugh arrived in South Vietnam with his ODA in 1961, and began working alongside Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDGs) there, as well as in Laos.
In 1965, while participating in a commando raid with his CIDG unit on a North Vietnamese Army encampment near Bong Son, Binh Dinh province, Waugh's unit found itself engaged with much larger enemy force than anticipated. Expecting only a few hundred NVA, it was discovered that a force of Chinese regulars had joined the NVA Elite; combining for almost 4,000 soldiers. While he and his men attempted to retreat from the battle, Waugh received numerous severe wounds to his head and legs. Unconscious, he was taken for dead by NVA soldiers and left alone. Despite his injuries, with the assistance of his teammates Waugh was safely evacuated from the combat zone. He spent much of 1965 and 1966 recuperating at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., eventually returning to duty with 5th Special Forces Group in 1966. He received a Silver Star and a Purple Heart (His 6th) for the battle of Bong Son.
At this time Waugh joined the Military Assistance Command-Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). While working for SOG, Waugh helped train Vietnamese and Cambodian forces in unconventional warfare tactics primarily directed against the North Vietnamese Army operating along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Prior to retirement from U.S. Army Special Forces service, Waugh was senior NCO (non-commissioned officer) of MACV-SOG's Command & Control North (CCN) based at Marble Mountain on the South China Sea shore a few miles south of Da Nang, Vietnam. Waugh held this Command Sergeant Major role during the covert unit's transition and name change to Task Force One Advisory Element (TF1AE). SGM Waugh conducted the first combat High Altitude, Low Opening (HALO) jump, a parachuting maneuver designed for rapid, undetected insertion into hostile territory. In October 1970, his team made a practice Combat Infiltration into the NVA owned War Zone D, in South Vietnam, for reassembly training, etc. Waugh also led the last combat Special reconnaissance parachute insertion by American Army Special Forces HALO parachutists into denied territory which was occupied by communist North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops on June 22, 1971.
Waugh retired from active military duty at the rank of Sergeant Major (E-9) on February 1, 1972.
Prior to retirement, Waugh worked for the CIA's elite Special Activities Division, starting in 1961. After Waugh retired from the military, he worked for the United States Postal Service until he accepted an offer in 1977 from ex-CIA officer Edwin P. Wilson to work in Libya on a contract to train that country's special forces. This was not an Agency-endorsed assignment and Waugh might have found himself in trouble with U.S. authorities if it weren't for the fact that he was also approached by the CIA to work for the Agency while in Libya. The CIA tasked him with surveilling Libyan military installations and capabilities - this was of great interest to U.S. intelligence as Libya was receiving substantial military assistance from the Soviet Union at the time. This additional assignment quite possibly protected Waugh from prosecution after Wilson was later indicted and convicted in 1979 for illegally selling weapons to Libya.
In the 1980s he was assigned to the Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall Islands to track Soviet small boat teams (Naval Spetsnaz: Dolfin) operating in the area and prevent them from stealing U.S. missile technology. Some of his more critical assignments took place in Khartoum, Sudan during the early 1990s, where he performed surveillance and intelligence gathering on terrorist leaders Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden with Cofer Black.
At the age of 71, Waugh participated in Operation Enduring Freedom as a member of the CIA team led by Gary Schroen that went into Afghanistan to work with the Northern Alliance to topple the Taliban regime and Al Qaeda at the Battle of Tora Bora. Waugh was in-country from October to December 2001. Waugh spent many years being both a "Blue Badger" (employee) and a "Green Badger" (contractor). He continues to work as a "Green Badger". It is unknown how many missions Waugh was involved in during his career.
In 1985, Waugh was again requested by the CIA for clandestine work. Before he took the offer, he decided to further his education, earning bachelor's degrees in Business and Police Science from Wayland Baptist University in 1987. He also earned a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialization in criminal justice administration (MSCJA) in 1988 from Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State), in San Marcos, TX.
Awards and decorations
Combat Infantryman Badge (two awards)
(United States)
Master Parachutist Badge
US Military Master Freefall Parachutist Badge with gold Combat Jump Device
Military Freefall Jumpmaster Badge with gold combat jump star (5 or more combat jumps).
Silver Star x 8
Legion of Merit
Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters
Silver oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Purple Heart with seven oak leaf clusters
Air Medal
Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Army Commendation Medal with valor device and three oak leaf clusters
Bronze oak leaf cluster Presidential Unit Citation (United States) with olc (one award in 2001, Studies and Observations Group)
Good Conduct Medal (7 awards)
Army of Occupation Medal
Bronze star National Defense Service Medal with one bronze service star
Bronze star Bronze star Bronze star Korean Service Medal with three campaign stars
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Arrowhead Silver star Bronze star Vietnam Service Medal with Arrowhead device and six service stars
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
Civil Action Unit Citation
Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Medal Unit Citation
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Republic of Korea War Service Medal
7 Service stripes.
Another epic livestream with four legends! Thank you for sharing your stories, wisdom and knowledge!
DAAAAAANGIT!!!! Missed a good one! Got books from both these incredible authors and heros!
Amazing stream guys! Thanks so much!
Incredible show. Awestruck by these heroes! 🇺🇸💪🏻
Absolute amazing livestream. I love hearing from the heroes who made it home. Thank you to all veterans.
Glad you enjoyed it
Every time I watch you guys jump gives me that goosebump-hair-standing-up over the whole body feeling. So bad ass.
Thanks to these GENTS for there information! GOD bless them and their + family sacrifice!
WOW the knowledge and experience they have
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Missed this live stream but man was it great to listen to it and listen to all your stories. Also that ending with you guys jumping off.
Holy shit I didn’t even know Plaster was still with us. What an amazing stream.
Legendary thanks for setting the foundation.
Thanks for watching, TR
Wow, what an honor to see these guys and hear them speak of the shitt they have been through. Incredible video for civilian and us vets alike. Thank you. SINE PARI
I just finished to read Plaster's SOG, simply a superb book, in my opinion the best book about the Vietnam war.
Agreed
Great show. Glad to see my buddy Tilt back again with the legend Maj. Plaster.
"The Swiss say that they're neutral, ... and that just makes me not trust you". And here I thought to be the only one doubting in our neutrality. Thanks for the support Karl, amazing podcast.
by neutral they mean there willing to sell gun and ammo to both sides pretty smart if you think about it
@@grizzly_mint I already know that. That's exactly my comment.
Bummed that I missed the end of the stream. Super excited about Ultimate Sniper and SOG photo history coming back into print! That'll be my two Christmas presents to myself.
I got SOG photo history for like 230 a year or so back! Some are 500-800 bucks lol
@@budgibson185 Yeah they're nuts. Still haven't heard any update from Maj. Plaster but I check his website daily. Gotta get while the gettin's good
Read all of the books they have written. Awesome show!! Please have them again.
Give a prayer of thanks for guys like Stryker Meyer and Plaster!
I listen to Meyers interviews and have read Plaster's sniper book, lot of wisdom to learn from.
Love Maj. John Plaster. Did a book signing for us at Bill's Gun Shop in Lilydale, Minnesota in the late 1990's.
Try to get SFC Melvin Morris on he was a MOH winner in SOG. Absolute stud. All 3 of them on at once would be insane.
Do you have his contact information?
@@TacticalRifleman Email: info (at) americanveterancenter (dot) org and ask for his information. I know they have it. If you tell them who you are you shouldn't have any issues. He was 5th Group just like you before going back and going to SOG.
Truly national treasures !!! I didn't watch live, my loss!!! I wanted to ask a Carlos story, M2 50bmg + 10x scope.. Carrying it to make his long shot !!! Stay Strong and Be Safe !!
These guys are legends, please let them talk
Wish this guy would have let them talk.
Great show awesome guest s I’ll have to get them marine sniper was a good one ☝️
Ok, I've watched twice now. Can't say enough about how awesome these guys are. It was great to learn that Jack Singlaub is still alive. Amazing. John Plaster looks and sounds like someone's kindly ol grandpa, yet he is a lethal killer. Ha Ha. Tilt still looks kinda dangerous. I'd love to see you do this again or have a war stories with them for the Patrons.
Holy crap! Tilt and the Plasticman ?!!!
Great livestream
Love this, Thank's
Greetings from Scotland, I've read all of Tilt's books as well as Mr Plaster's SOG Commandos book and Franklin D Miller's book "Reflections of a Warrior". Please gave these guys back on your show again.
Thanks for watching, TR
You need to read Nick Brokhasen “ The Few” “ Whispers in the Grass “ and “ Vagabonds” the books are on the Money & Brilliant ( just UA-cam his name for a taste he’s interviewed John Meyers podcast Magical 👍👍👍
Hey John Plaster! You need to tell the story of helping your NVA prisoner take a piss...
Lee Burkins, MACV-SOG, FOB II, OneZero, RT Vermont, RT Colorado. Dec 69 - Nov 70. Author of 'Soldier's Heart: An Inquiry of War'
Lee, when you want to come on the livestream?
@@TacticalRifleman Thank you Karl. Maybe read my book to see if you would like to have me on... Send me an address where I can send you some photos of MACV-SOG, FOB 2.
Consider yourself invited. As for address, don’t put your address in the comment section. Rather, send an email to tacticalrifleman1@gmail.com and I’ll send you back my mailing address.
Thank you for your service. Strength and Honor, TR
John Stryker Meyers!! I Loved it so much, I came back for some more! Hahahah😂 Best Ever🥲
Glad you enjoyed it
@@TacticalRifleman It was a good Live Stream.
Just finished reading SOG. Great book!!!
June 21st, 2022: My girlfriend and I were at her grandparents and her grandpa had a gift for me. While he and his wife were at a local VFW dance, he saw his old friend and told him about me and my military service and how I am interested in becoming a sniper. After sharing this, his friend then left the dance for a short while and returned with a book. "Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG". Written in the title page was "To XXXXX, With best regards to a fellow warrior. John Plaster U.S. Army Special Forces MACV-SOG" Small world after all.
Awesome
@@TacticalRifleman I'll be meeting him at the next VFW dance, the catch for getting the book is that I'd have to learn how to dance according to my girlfriends grandpa 😂
What an awesome live stream 3 great American heros 🇺🇲 then the cherry on top watching the #tacticalriflemanfamily parachute jump! You have to have *BIG CAJONES* to jump out of a perfectly good airplane ✈ 🤣🤣🤪
I finished reading Secret Commandos by Plaster. Incredible book!
Awesome guests!
I just found your videos. I subscribed. Thank you and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE .
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching
Karl, you never disappoint. This was one of my favorite Tactical Tuesday’s ever. Before you, Major Plaster has been a hero of mine for years. Him and Captain Meyer made for an outstanding episode. I hope you can get both of them down to Palatka. Whether they jump or not, they could be our featured speaker (just thinking out loud). That would be awesome. Hey, you, your son, and your team, need to join us for the water jump this time. Oh, and, try to get Rawhide to join y’all.
We will be there for sure
Got all the Ult SN books from Plaster, keepers all of them along with One Round War!
Airborne brothers! Four and a half years with the 11th.
There is a picture of a guy riding a cobra on the skids in plasters photo history book! I think that’s what you saw not tilts story
i love hearing these nam stories before all the technology, my dad goes on for hours, those where the dog days
*Major Plaster, you keep silently staring into the distance. Are you looking for something?*
_Yes. As a matter of fact, I am..._
*And what would that be, Major Plaster?*
_I'm looking for a war._
Joe Parnar’s book SOG Medic has a lot of comic relief in it.
Hello, im not sure if you guys read the comments on these videos or not but if you do, I am the CEO of Grey Wolf Protective Industries and we are interested in doing some training through you guys for an upcoming contract we have, I tried looking on your website but didn't see anywhere to get ahold of you so I hope here will work as a catalyst. If you see this please know that I am serious about my inquiry and my company's interest.
Please send an email with details to tacticalrifleman1@gmail.com
@@TacticalRifleman thank you for replying, an email has been sent to you from me at gws1307@gmail.com
Behold a quiz of such caliber of men. Who said what?
''There are men too superior to be seen except by the few, as there are notes too high in scale for most ears.''
''For every ten people you find clipping at the leaves of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.''
''None are closer to the author of pain & sacrifice Himself.
Than those who choose to perform it for the sake & safety of others.''
''In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, 11b4p 1/504 '74
Awesome
Karl, Have a wee question for ya! Who has the Longest Sniper Shot in the Jungle? You never talk about who has difference, on who holds the Losgest Sniper Shot! Between Urban & Jungle?
Legendary.
You need Nick Brokhausen on here for 3 hours !!!! plenty of whiskey 👍the man’s Life in Macsog is Magical and after he was even Awesome ( language hard might stop you but he’s a Legend ) 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Are there plans to rerelease the Ultimate Sniper course DVD?
Better than Joe Rogan
Ultimate Sniper!
I think the story of the guys getting extracted off in an Apache in Afghanistan was British and it was they went back in on the wings of an Apache to rescue one of their guys as the Apache at the balls and we're small enough to fit where the guy that was wounded and I think he died eventually was at
Pilot I have never jumped out of a good air craft
Yeah, that part where Major Plaster mentions whether the NVA or State Dep was the greater enemy, that speaks to me on many levels.
Just want to be clear about something, Vietnam vets will always have a special place in my heart on a level I could never even properly put into words. It's a personal thing for me imho....let me explain.
Like Jerry J, I was born in a communist dictatorship too (a different one, communist Romania/Balkans under the Ceausescu monster). My parents were in fact anti communist dissidents.
American Vietnam HEROES fought and BLED in an attempt to end communism and free people like us. There is no thank you in the world that would be enough. Yes, through NO fault of their own (I'll talk more about this shortly) Vietnam did not turn out the way it should have, and that war was not what ended communism. Nevertheless, they went and fought and died for people like us. SF motto free the oppressed. That's personal for me and they tried to do exactly that.
But the communist cancer was also growing inside the US. The war in Vietnam against communist forces, to be successful, needed an equal mirrored war against communist forces to be fought INSIDE the USA. Fighting one while ignoring the other was always going to lead in failure. There has been an Unconventional Warfare being conducted against the US since at least the 50's in it's CURRENT KGB originated form, the form we are seeing today.
And, yes, some monkeys will point out that the KGB no longer exists. Yes, that's true, but the processes the KGB put in place MANY decades ago are still very much in place now.
Yuri Bezmenov spoke about what was happening. Search his name, watch his interview. It's all very much still connected, regardless whether people realize it or not.
In any case, unconventional socialist warfare. That's what it's all about. That's what it's been about for so long. But most people do not fully understand even the concept of unconventional warfare in all its violent AND non violent forms.
In any case, thanks for having these heroes on the show. Stay safe.
As for Taiwan, ...Taiwan MUST be defended at ALL cost by America and its allies,... because if it is not, then we in the entire free world/West can kiss our a**es goodbye.
Taiwan is critical for SO many reasons, ANY ONE of which would spell a game over situation for the free world should Taiwan fall into the CCP hands.
If Taiwan falls, then don't worry about anything else, it'll be all over. Game over.
So when I say a free Taiwan needs to be defended at all costs, I really mean ALL costs.
Thanks for sharing
My history teacher had his book now I wish I asked to borrow it.
Great book. Honestly, I don’t mind buying books. Read them, then give them as a random gift to someone that you think will enjoy it. Just instruct them to also pass it on when they are done reading it.
I missed the big daddy code did anyone catch it?
Is that Ultimate Sniper Plaster? 🫡
Yep
Or it may have been in Running Recon by Frank Greco
No Die No Die! 😂
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How about getting some British special forces guys on 👍🇬🇧
We just had a Brit on a few months ago.
I watched it, was a great interview 👍
Tell the John's I said Theo on and be a Lone Ranger if you would #TacticalRifleman !!!
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Them guys ever get close to bearcat
Bump the algo.
What 4 communists dislike this video…
Please karl wright your book. Joe's fuck up so much stuff.
these guys have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to anything with a sticker price over 100k. Asking a bunch of infantry about their opinions on the F22 is wildly inappropriate to put it mildly.
Labeling these men as merely "a bunch of infantry" is like calling an astronaut a beechcraft bonanza pilot. You would be amazed at how much some of the gear and weapons these guys have used actually cost... but you wouldn't know about any of that.
@@SGobuck uh oh, looks some 11b is mad. Lol. Using 5 digit NODs and 6 digits laser designators doesn’t measure up to what the airforce plays with.
Make this episode a DVD for purchase