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Episode 12 of the Late Night History podcast welcomes a true living legend: Bob Charest. Bob Charest is a distinguished member of the US Army Special Forces Regiment aka the Green Beret Hall of Fame. Charest served in the US Army between 1956 and 1981 and completed two tours during the Vietnam War; the first with Army Special Forces and the second with MACV-SOG. Charest later served with the now legendary special operations unit known as MACV-SOG. He ran recon and hatchet teams. Recon Teams typically had two Americans and four indigenous troops, while hatchet teams were much larger assault forces consisting of about 19 people. On one of these missions, Charest was nominated for the Silver Star. Although the nomination was downgraded to the Bronze Star with Valor, Bob recently received news that his "missing Silver Star" was approved and his service record corrected.  In his hall of fame career, Charest also notably served two stints with a previously classified Cold War stay-behind unit in Berlin called Detachment-A. We briefly discussed this, but will do a more in-depth dive covering this unit's history in a stand-alone episode.  Please visit Bob's website to learn more about Detachment-A: https://detachment-a.org Follow Late Night History on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latenighthistory/

Episode 12 of the Late Night History podcast welcomes a true living legend: Bob Charest. Bob Charest is a distinguished member of the US Army Special Forces Regiment aka the Green Beret Hall of Fame. Charest served in the US Army between 1956 and 1981 and completed two tours during the Vietnam War; the first with Army Special Forces and the second with MACV-SOG. Charest later served with the now legendary special operations unit known as MACV-SOG. He ran recon and hatchet teams. Recon Teams typically had two Americans and four indigenous troops, while hatchet teams were much larger assault forces consisting of about 19 people. On one of these missions, Charest was nominated for the Silver Star. Although the nomination was downgraded to the Bronze Star with Valor, Bob recently received news that his "missing Silver Star" was approved and his service record corrected.  In his hall of fame career, Charest also notably served two stints with a previously classified Cold War stay-behind unit in Berlin called Detachment-A. We briefly discussed this, but will do a more in-depth dive covering this unit's history in a stand-alone episode. Please visit Bob's website to learn more about Detachment-A: <a href="https://detachment-a.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://detachment-a.org</a> Follow Late Night History on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/latenighthistory/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/latenighthistory/</a>

Episode 12: Bob Charest

Bob Charest served in Vietnam and with Special Forces Detachment A conducting the urban unconventional warfare mission in Berlin in the event that the Soviets ever invaded. In this episode we discuss Bob's career bouncing between Vietnam, Thailand, and Berlin where he served in Project Sigma (which became MACV-SOG) where he did cross border ops into Cambodia, working for the CIA in Thailand, and doing clandestine sabotage ops in Berlin with Det A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Charest served in Vietnam and with Special Forces Detachment A conducting the urban unconventional warfare mission in Berlin in the event that the Soviets ever invaded. In this episode we discuss Bob's career bouncing between Vietnam, Thailand, and Berlin where he served in Project Sigma (which became MACV-SOG) where he did cross border ops into Cambodia, working for the CIA in Thailand, and doing clandestine sabotage ops in Berlin with Det A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin, Project Sigma in Vietnam with Bob Charest, Ep. 50