# Medal Of Honor Winner & MACV-SOG Legend

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Podcast: [Heroes Behind Headlines](https://stenobird.com/podcast/heroes-behind-headlines-4769541)
Published: 2026-06-15T04:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1944105/episodes/19302632-medal-of-honor-winner-macv-sog-legend.mp3
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## Resource

Colonel Robert Howard was a very distinguished member of the top-secret MACV-SOG units that fought during the Vietnam War in America’s secret war in Laos and Cambodia. Comprised of only one to a few U.S. special force team members plus a cadre of native Vietnamese, Montagnard, Cambodian (Khmer Krom), and Nung fighters, these recon units operated deep behind enemy lines recovering downed pilots and attempting POW rescues, destroying enemy fuel dumps and caches, conducting wiretaps, gathering i...

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