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    Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces reconnaissance company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit of its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army’s Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots, and undertaking other black ops missions. In the event that SOG men were killed or captured while operating “across the fence,” the U.S. government would deny any knowledge of their activity. In many cases, SOG teams were inserted by helicopter under enemy fire and were pursued by NVA trackers for days from the moment they first put boots on the jungle floor. They often engaged platoon- to division-sized enemy forces until the surviving members could be extracted. Some entire teams were wiped out in the process. MACV-SOG documented in 1969 that their ratio of NVA soldiers killed to each Green Beret lost was 150 to 1—the highest documented kill ratio of any American unit in the war. Uncommon Valor follows the recon company housed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) 2 at Kontum, from its creation in the spring of 1966 through January 1970. During that time, FOB 2’s recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, America’s second highest military award for valor. Each of the five Kontum Medal of Honor recipients was cited for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” while tending to the welfare of wounded comrades. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in U.S. wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up for the Medal of Honor after three different missions, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II’s Audie Murphy.

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    Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces reconnaissance company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit of its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army’s Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots, and undertaking other black ops missions. In the event that SOG men were killed or captured while operating “across the fence,” the U.S. government would deny any knowledge of their activity. In many cases, SOG teams were inserted by helicopter under enemy fire and were pursued by NVA trackers for days from the moment they first put boots on the jungle floor. They often engaged platoon- to division-sized enemy forces until the surviving members could be extracted. Some entire teams were wiped out in the process. MACV-SOG documented in 1969 that their ratio of NVA soldiers killed to each Green Beret lost was 150 to 1—the highest documented kill ratio of any American unit in the war. Uncommon Valor follows the recon company housed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) 2 at Kontum, from its creation in the spring of 1966 through January 1970. During that time, FOB 2’s recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, America’s second highest military award for valor. Each of the five Kontum Medal of Honor recipients was cited for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” while tending to the welfare of wounded comrades. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in U.S. wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up for the Medal of Honor after three different missions, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II’s Audie Murphy.

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    PRESS RELEASE: Uncommon Valor

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    Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces reconnaissance company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit of its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army’s Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots, and undertaking other black ops missions. In the event that SOG men were killed or captured while operating “across the fence,” the U.S. government would deny any knowledge of their activity. In many cases, SOG teams were inserted by helicopter under enemy fire and were pursued by NVA trackers for days from the moment they first put boots on the jungle floor. They often engaged platoon- to division-sized enemy forces until the surviving members could be extracted. Some entire teams were wiped out in the process. MACV-SOG documented in 1969 that their ratio of NVA soldiers killed to each Green Beret lost was 150 to 1—the highest documented kill ratio of any American unit in the war. Uncommon Valor follows the recon company housed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) 2 at Kontum, from its creation in the spring of 1966 through January 1970. During that time, FOB 2’s recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, America’s second highest military award for valor. Each of the five Kontum Medal of Honor recipients was cited for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” while tending to the welfare of wounded comrades. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in U.S. wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up for the Medal of Honor after three different missions, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II’s Audie Murphy.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Contact: Jacqline Barnes, (410) 295-1028, jbarnes@usni.org

    The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America's Most Decorated
    Green Beret

    “Steve Moore’s new SOG book Uncommon Valor is well


    researched, well written, and is a must-read for any
    Special Forces warrior or SOG historian/afficionado.”
    —John Stryker Meyer, SOG Green Beret, One-Zero
    of RT Idaho, and author of Across the Fence

    “Stephen L. Moore’s Uncommon Valor is a triumph — a


    masterfully researched narrative filled with tremendous
    characters and firefights that will send readers’ pulse
    rates soaring from the first page.”
    —James M. Scott, author of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize
    finalist Target Tokyo and Rampage

    “…Fast-paced and exciting, Uncommon Valor finally


    reveals the patriotism and raw courage displayed by so
    many of my brothers-in-arms, including five who earned
    the Medal of Honor.”
    —Warren W. "Bud" Williams, Major, USA (Ret.)

    Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon
    company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was
    the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units
    as the Army’s Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors
    operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi
    Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army
    ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots and other black ops missions. During that
    time, Forward Operating Base-2’s (FOB-2's) recon company became the most highly decorated
    unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight earning the
    Distinguished Service Cross-America's second highest military award for valor. Purple Hearts
    were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in American wars of the twentieth century,
    with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen
    different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up after three different missions
    for the Medal of Honor, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since
    World War II's Audie Murphy.
    STEPHEN L. MOORE, a sixth generation Texan, is the author of 18 previous books on World
    War II and Texas history and is a contributing writer for the Dallas Morning News. He graduated
    from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he studied advertising,
    marketing, and journalism. Steve lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife and three
    children.

    NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS


    Publication date: 1 September 2018
    Vietnam War | 440 pp.
    Hardcover & eBook: $35.00
    ISBN: 978-1-59114-574-5
    6.125 x 9.25 in, B&W
    www.usni.org

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