Each Mobile Guerrilla Force (MGF) consisted of a 12-man A-Team, a 150-man mobile guerrilla company, and a 34-man combat reconnaissance platoon. They were inserted into the assigned tactical area of operations by the most unobtrusive means available. Once in the AO, the unit became a true guerrilla force in every respect, conceived to emulate the tactics of the VC guerrillas. Without artillery support, without reinforcements or med evacs, the MGF operated for extensive periods of time deep in Communist-controlled regions of South Vietnam and Cambodia. They were hit-and-run units, giving the North Vietnamese and Vietcong a taste of their own tactical medicine. Armed with silencer-equipped MK-II British Sten guns, M-16s, M-79s, and M-60 machine guns, the MGF wreaked havoc on the enemy, destroying base camps, ambushing patrols, gathering intel, using the enemy's booby-trapped trails and grenade-in-you-backpack tactics in a sprawling mass of jungle. They required complete freedom of action within a specified area of operations in order to achieve success (no brass or politics). For this reason, once an area was designated for the conduct of an operation, the MGF "owned" that area. The MGF operations were known as "Blackjack Missions" and existed between October 1966 and July 1967. So, if you ever needed a group of skullfuckers to stack commies, this was it. #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #slaycommies #runcharlie