🇺🇲 Vietnam War Stories: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Master Sergeant Jerry M. Shriver
🇺🇲 Vietnam War Stories: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Master Sergeant Jerry M. Shriver Master Sergeant Jerry M. "Mad Dog" Shriver was a legendary Green Beret. He was a platoon leader with Command and Control South, MACV-SOG. MACV-SOG was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. On the morning of April 24, 1969, Shriver's platoon was dropped into Cambodia by four helicopters. Upon departing the helicopter, the team had begun moving toward its initial target point when it came under heavy volumes of enemy fire from several machine gun bunkers and entrenched enemy positions estimated to be at least a company-sized element. Shriver was last seen by the company commander, Captain Paul D. Cahill, as Shriver was moving against the machine gun bunkers and entering a tree line on the southwest edge of the LZ with a trusted Montagnard striker. Captain Cahill and Sergeant Ernest C. Jamison, t