award for valor. On 4 April 2001, the U.S. Army officially recognized the bravery, integrity, and devotion to duty of its covert warriors by awarding the unit a Presidential Unit Citation during a ceremony at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the home of U.S. Army Special Forces. Technology McGuire rig Fulton surface-to-air recovery system In popular culture In Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard is assigned to SOG and then sent after Colonel Kurtz who has taken his Montagnard force into Cambodia. The Studies and Observations Group makes an appearance in the 2010 Activision first-person shooter video game title Call of Duty: Black Ops being an element in the story line as well as a playable multiplayer faction. On the TV series Tour of Duty, the third season sees the main characters reassigned to SOG in order to conduct covert operations in Vietnam and in Cambodia. In the tabletop role-playing game Fall of DELTA GREEN, the eponymous organization employees Studies and Observations Group operatives and assets for their own operations. The game also suggests that MACV-SOG might have been inspired by DELTA GREEN, as both organizations have similar principles: combining operatives from various military and civilian agencies for covert operations, Top Secret classification and plausible deniability. The MACV-SOG is a playable faction in the ARMA 3 S.O.G Prairie Fire DLC expansion. The co-op campaign follows SOG team Spike Team Columbia as they participate in covert operations in the Ho Chi Minh trail such as Project Eldest Son. See also Case–Church Amendment Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division CIA activities in Cambodia CIA activities in Laos Hughes–Ryan Amendment North Vietnamese invasion of Laos Footnotes Explanatory footnotes Reference notes Citations General and cited sources Unpublished government documents Published government documents Memoirs and autobiographies Secondary sources External links MACV SOG Presidential Unit Citation article MACV SOG Homepage MACV-SOG KIA Lists by year (e.g. 1971) Viet Nam Bibliography: SOG MACV-SOG "Over the Fence" Uniform Article 1964 establishments in the United States 1971 disestablishments in the United States Military history of the United States during the Vietnam War Military units and formations disestablished in 1971 Military units and formations established in 1964 Military units and formations of the United States in the Vietnam War Special operations units and formations of the United States