came in and said, ‘Put away all pens, pencils and notebooks. We were herded into a nondescript room and started pulling out pencils and pads, as we had been doing for months. A truck drove us to the C&C (Command and Control Headquarters) near the air base. That was our informal introduction, where there were veteran Green Berets, some mysterious types in civilian clothes who stayed away from green horns like Johnny Mac and I. When we arrived at Da Nang, we stayed in an SF/CIA safe house simply called House 22, not to be confused with House 10 in Saigon. John MacIntyre asked what we were volunteering for and the sergeant glared back and said, ‘You’re in SF now, you’ll know when you have a need to know.’ Well, Mac and I had just seen the movie the Green Berets with John Wayne, we raised our hands and that was that, we were shipped to Da Nang.” They all advised us to go to an A Camp first. Do I have any hands?’ Keep in mind, when we went through (Special Forces) training group (at Bragg), the old Vietnam hands told us this would happen. Meyer: “We landed in ‘Nam at the end of 1968, went to 5 th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Headquarters in Nha Trang and completed the three-week in country training, at the end of which, a bantam rooster-sized Green Beret came out and said something to the effect: ‘We’re looking for volunteers. You had what some might term a rude introduction to SOG, tell us about that. Gordon, Ga., when did you land in ‘Nam? Tell us about your volunteering for SOG. Bragg and some top secret RTT training at Ft. Ok?’ I saluted and started writing.”īrown: “After basic training, AIT, Jump School, Special Forces training at Ft. If they fuck with you while you’re writing for me we’ll take ‘em to the fucking Supreme Court. I said yes, but cautioned that the 20-year secret document I signed in SOG prohibiting me from writing about it, was still in effect. You asked me if I’d like to write SOG stories for SOF. Meyer: “Robert, it started with you and Soldier of Fortune Magazine in 1986. Brown: “Tilt, when did you first start writing about SOG, you know the Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, where you ran top secret missions for 19 months during the eight-year secret war waged by Green Berets and their indigenous troops across the fence in N. Editors said it was a coincidence that its decision occurred at about the same time ads in the magazine were linked to a Texas murder-for- hire case and an Indiana inmate’s escape plot.SOF’s Robert Brown Interviews SOG Author John Stryker “Tilt” Meyer In early March, the magazine announced it no longer would accept employment ads of any type. Anita Spearman was murdered in her Palm Beach Gardens home on Nov. Savage, through Savage’s ad in the September 1985 issue of Soldier of Fortune, authorities say. Spearman, 56, contacted one of the men, Robert M. The sheriff’s office has charged Robert Spearman with hiring two Knoxville, Tenn., men for $20,000 to kill his wife, the former assistant city manager of West Palm Beach. “We’re very sorry something like this could happen. “Well, we obviously wish it hadn’t happened,” said associate editor Jim Pate in a telephone interview. Editors of Soldier of Fortune magazine expressed regret Saturday over what the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says was the murder of Anita Spearman by two men hired through an ad in the magazine billed as a journal for professional mercenaries.
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