MIKE Force
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The Mobile Strike Force Command, or MIKE Force, was a key component of
Foreign Internal Defense
mission.
History
Green Berets were in-country, with their headquarters at Nha Trang. Their primary mission was to train and advise CIDG groups, many of whom were hostile to Viet Cong
(VC) efforts to promote socialist revolution in the countryside.
In late 1964, there was increasing Viet Cong activity in the area surrounding Saigon, a zone officially controlled by the South Vietnamese
Degar peoples, also known as Montagnards.)[1]
Mike Force's missions were intended as multipurpose reaction units and to act as a country-wide
counter-guerrilla warfare
against enemies from behind their lines that emphasized body-count rather than force multiplication.
Mike Force was active under
Master Sergeant or Sergeant First Class
and assisted by two or three other SF soldiers including a medic. Mike Forces distinguished themselves at famous battle locations such as Ashau, the Plei Trapp Valley, Nui Giai, Nui Coto, Duc Lap, Nui Khet and others.
Nung people from Mike Force manned
King of Cambodia
objected a week later.
Mike Force had a critical role in the
LRRPs.[3]
In 1971 MIKE Force was disbanded during Vietnamization.
See also
- Montagnard
- Kit Carson Scouts
- Vietnamese Rangers
- Civilian Irregular Defense Group program
- Detachment 101
- Project DELTA
- Project GAMMA
- LRRPs
- Operation Phoenix
- MACV
- Tiger Force
- Role of United States in the Vietnam War
References
- ISBN 9781134145850.
- ISBN 9781610601344.
- ^ Terry White (1998), Eliteverbände der Welt (in German), Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to MIKE Force.
- Save the Montagnard People
- Vietnam Studies, U.S. Army Special Forces 1961-1971, CMH Publication 90-23, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. 1989 (First Printed, 1973)
- MIKE Force: An Element of Impact
- SF Books-Who's who and known ops
- The Special Force by Ed Sprague
- MIKE Force Association
- "Australian Army Training Team in Viet Nam", MIKE Force Assn.
- MIKE Force History