Joe Parnar > Quotes

“Initially, I couldn’t grasp the intent of the question or thought I’d misheard it. But then I explained, “We went back to the mountain because we were SOG and that’s what we did, that was our mission.”
― Joe Parnar, SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

“Steve said, “I don’t think so. I think we’re having a mad minute.” (A mad minute is an expression for when someone fires off a shot accidentally and everyone else starts shooting in the belief that they are in contact.)”
― Joe Parnar, SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

“Many dead enemy soldiers were found in the wire and around the camp as well as bloody bandages and heroin packets they used to drug themselves in preparation for the attack.”
― Joe Parnar, SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

“You might wonder why I wasn’t court martialed for disobeying an order. One thing you learn in the field is that nothing succeeds like success.”
― Joe Parnar, SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

“This sounded good in theory, in the war room in Saigon, but combat reality has a way of getting out of focus.”
― Joe Parnar, SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969