{"id":82277,"date":"2025-03-04T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=82277"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:25:40","slug":"history-of-the-macv-sog-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/history-of-the-macv-sog-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the MACV\/SOG Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conrad \u201cBen\u201d Baker was a problem solver. When special operations troops during the Vietnam War needed a \u201cnon-attributable,\u201d or sterile, knife for cross-border reconnaissance and irregular warfare, Baker was uniquely positioned to design and procure their plausibly deniable piece of kit. From this request were born the rare and legendary MACV-SOG knives.<\/h2>\n

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In 1964, Baker was the Deputy Chief for the United States Counterinsurgency Support Office (CISO), based in Okinawa. Tasked with outfitting U.S. Army Special Forces, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDGs), and the Military Assistance Command\/Vietnam (MACV), one of Baker\u2019s many assignments was to produce an unmarked knife that could act as a survival tool or close-quarters weapon in the hands of U.S. soldiers or sailors.<\/h2>\n

One of several groups under MACV command was the\u00a0Studies and Observation Group, or SOG<\/a>. MACV-SOG conducted dangerous recon and raids \u201cover the fence\u201d into Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam. A typical SOG team would consist of two to three U.S. SOG members and up to nine indigenous personnel (typically Montagnards, Chinese, or Cambodians). SOG began with Army Special Forces and CIA assets, but quickly brought in U.S. Navy SEALs and Force Recon Marines.<\/h2>\n

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  Conrad \u201cBen\u201d Baker was a problem solver. When special operations troops during the Vietnam War needed a \u201cnon-attributable,\u201d or sterile, knife for cross-border reconnaissance and irregular warfare, Baker was uniquely positioned to design and procure their plausibly deniable piece of kit. From this request were born the rare and legendary MACV-SOG knives. Background In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,16821,6002,177,10,5016,1898,7357,24],"tags":[18593,8798,18592,6270,7509,766,8123,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82280,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277\/revisions\/82280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}