From the Editor — October 2025

SFQC Graduation, Class 340

Recent SFQC graduates at the pre-graduation BBQ and at the graduation ceremony where they would done their green berets for the first time.

Help Honor Our Heroes: Support the Special Forces Monument

SFA Chapter 88 located in Northeast Florida is seeking your help to raise funds for a Special Forces Monument to be located in the Jacksonville National Cemetery.

SFACON 2025 —Last Call!!! Register NOW!

Join us for the first-ever Joint SFACon and Special Operations Association gathering. Register now and reserve your room by 09/12/25 to ensure availability and special group rate.

SINGLAUB: The Jedburgh Mission

This story by Jim Morris originally appeared in Soldier of Fortune in 1981. It is the story of MG John “Jack” Singlaub as a first lieutenant and captain in the OSS—including excerpts from an interview with Singlaub.

SINGLAUB—Parachuting into Prison: Special Ops in China

Jim Morris contributed to the September 2020 Sentinel excerpts of an interview with MG Singlaub. Singlaub describes how, in 1945, shortly before Japanese surrender, he led a parachute rescue mission into an enemy prisoner of war camp on Hainan Island. This operation resulted in the liberation of hundreds of Allied POWs.

Maj. Gen. John Singlaub and Col. William Weber Memorialized in Korea at DMZ Peace Park

Memorials honoring two late U.S. veterans who fought in the 1950–53 Korean War was unveiled at Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri Park in Paju, just south of the Demilitarized Zone, during a ceremony in October, 2023.

February 1967: Skyhook and MG Singlaub

This is a riveting account from the April 2019 Sentinel by John S. Meyer of the day Major General “Jack” Singlaub, MACV-SOG Commander at the time, was lifted by the STARS, Surface To Air Recovery System (Fulton Recovery System), or as we simply called it years ago, Skyhook. He interviewed the general at his home, where MG Singlaub described why he was the first person to be recovered in Southeast Asia using Skyhook and some revelations about the later use of the system “up north.”

STARS Surface to Air Recovery System

Also from the April 2019 Sentinel, Colonel John Gargus contributes “STARS Surface To Air Recovery System” describing each job of the crew of the C-130 E Combat Talon aircraft on an extraction.

Skyhook Recovery: A Brief History

This was the final article to follow the stories by John Stryker Meyer and COL John Gargus in the April 2019 Sentinel. Lonny Holmes, the editor of the Sentinel at that time, contributes this brief history of Skyhook Recovery.

SOG Boss Jack Singlaub Gives Chapter 78 Members a Mission

By John Stryker Meyer from the May 2017 Sentinel.

Independence-Born, Owens Valley Raised: Remembering Captain James Birchim

Captain James Birchim, a young MACV-SOG officer missing and presumed dead by age 22, left a legacy of bravery and sacrifice that is still inspiring.

SFA Chapter 78 August Chapter Meeting

With guest speaker Jerry Guzzetta, author of I Walked With Heroes, the story of his experiences as a Green Beret in MACV-SOG.