CODE WORDS, SOG WORDS, PHRASES

CODE WORDS, SOG WORDS, PHRASES

and COMMON CALL SIGNS

ABCCC Airborne Command and Control Center (Laos, BARREL ROLL Area)

ABLE MABEL Tactical Reconnaissance in South Vietnam

AIZ Air Interdiction Zone

ALASKA Thu Duc (SOG-33)

ALLEY CAT Call Sign for ABCCC during night time in BARREL ROLL Area

ANGRY TALKER Secure word for Golf-5 Radio Relay Site

ARC LIGHT B-52 Strike

ARIZONA Cambodia (SOG-33)

BARREL ROLL Northwest Area of Laos (SOG-32)

BENSON SILK NVA Scrip inserts (discontinued Aug 70) (SOG-33)

BI FROST Cross-Beach missions in-country in support of CAS, 3MAF and XXIV

Corps in the IFFV/I Corps area. Originates from NAD (now DODGE

MARK) (SOG-33)

BLACKBEARD Intel collection plan for DANIEL BOONE AO (both obsolete)

BLUE BOOK SOG Word, SOG-35 Psyop material

BLUE CHIP 7th AF Command Post (TSN) (SOG-60)

BLUE EAGLE EC-121 flying psyops missions out of Da Nang/Saigon

BLUE TREES Tactical Reconnaissance over NVN (SOG-20)

BORDEN (C) Diversionary Program directed against VC and NVA in Cambodia, Laos

and NVN. Under the FORAE (C) Program (SOG-34).

BRIGHAM Call sign for GCI radar at Udorn RTAFB (SOG-32)

BRIGHT LIGHT JPRC (Joint Personnel Recovery Center) recovery mission (SOG-80)

BROWN ANCHOR KC-135 refueling tracks (also RED, WHITE, BLUE, TAN and GREEN)

BROWN STALLION Rewards Program Leaflets (SOG-80, SOG-39)

BUFFALO HUNTER Drone photography flown by SAC over NVN, also known as BUMPY

ACTION (SOG-20)

BUFFALO TRACK Rewards Program Leaflets (SOG-39, SOG-80)

BUGS SOG commo, [DATA REDACTED]REDACTED

CADO Maritime intelligence, psyops and cross beach missions (SOG-31)

CALIFORNIA Russia (SOG-33) (discontinued SOG word)

CANDLES Radio Tapes

CAS Combined Area Studies or Controlled American Sources (CIA)

CEDAR WALK Indigenous Cambodian intelligence collection teams (SOG-36)

CIRCUS ACT Wire tap operations run by SOG 35/36

CLSC-V COMSEC Logistic Support Center - Vietnam (SOG-60)

COLD TURKEY Psyops material (leaflets, gift kits, radios (SOG-33)

COMBAT SPEAR 90th Special Operations Squadron, C-130E’s (SOG-32)

COMMANDO HUNT 7th AF program for enemy interdiction in Laos

COVEY PRAIRIE FIRE FAC call sign

CRACKER BOX C-123’s/C-130’s assigned to SOG (SOG-32 SOG word)

CRICKET Daytime call sign for ABCCC in BARREL ROLL Area

CSS Vietnamese counterpart organization of Maritime Studies Group (Coastal Security Service)

DANIEL BOONE Now known as SALEM HOUSE

DCPG Defense Communications Planning Group

DEWEY RIFLE Nickname referring to cross-beach missions conducted in-country (SOG-

31)

DIAMOND HEAD Use of people sniffers

DODGE MARK Cross-beach operations in-country (SOG-31)

DORSAL FIN Tactical reconnaissance photography over Cambodia run by 7th AF (now

FACE VALUE) (SOG-20)

DOUBLE CROSS RT operations into DMZ under control of 3d MAF.

DUEL BLADE Replaced nickname DYE MARKER. Ground obstacle system to impede

infiltration into RVN. Compatible with IGLOO WHITE

DUEL SPEAR A ground obstacle to infiltration

DUFFLE BAG Employment of DCPG resources in SEA for purposes other than to impede

infiltration from NVN to SVN

DUMP TRUCK Air supported antipersonnel sub-system of IGLOO-WHITE program

DUST COVER Modular transportable sensor data collection and processing system

EARTH ANGEL NVA Hoi Chanh recon

EGGS Gift Kits (SOG-33 SOG word)

ELDEST SON Relating to introduction of contaminated ammunition in enemy hands.

Also known as ITALIAN GREEN and POLE BEAN. (discontinued)

(SOG-33)

EL PASO COMUS MACV OPLAN for overground operations across Rte 9 in

Laos.

ELEPHANT WALK Rewards Program Leaflet Drops (SOG-39, SOG-80)

FACE VALUE Tactical Recon in Cambodia

FLAMING ARROW Unclas name for in-country recon operations conducted by 5th SFGA under the control of Senior Corps Advisors using assets (teams, etc) programmed for SALEM HOUSE (discontinued)

FLYING HORSE Now known as SALEM HOUSE

FOOTBOY (C) SOG covert operations against NVN

FORAE (C) Diversionary operations against NVN. Active sub-programs are

BORDEN (C) and OODLES (C) under FOOTBOY (C) program

FORD DRUM Low level, hand held aerial photography over the SALEM HOUSE and

PRAIRIE FIRE AO’s

FOUNTAIN PEN High-altitude leaflet drop along RICE River, Cambodian-SVN borders

(SOG-32)

FRANTIC GOAT High altitude leaflet drop along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Laos, Cambodia

(SOG-32)

FULL CRY Unclas name for MACV plan to conduct large scale military operations in

S. Laos

GAME WARDEN Inland waterways patrols interdicting VC shipping

GIANT NAIL High altitude photography (U-2) over SEA

GIANT SCALE High altitude photography over SEA (other than U-2)

GOLDEN EARRING Unclas name for TAC AIR missions (strikes) in support of RT’s

HAILSTONES M4A resupply containers

HAWAII Camp Long Thanh (SOG-33 SOG word)

HATCHET FORCE OP-35 platoon size exploitation force. No longer used

HAVOC FORCE OP-35 Multi-platoon size exploitation force. No longer used

HAYMAKER FORCE Battalion-size force. No longer used

HEAVY HOOK SOG C-123’s

HEAVY MOW Two of the above C-123’s on loan from the GRC

HICKORY OP-35 Hill 950 Radio Relay Site

HILLSBORO Call word for ABCCC during the day (STEEL TIGER)

HITCHHIKER SOG word, scheduled logistic/personnel airlift (SOG-32)

HORNET FORCE Platoon size force

HUMIDOR Psyops against NVN under FOOTBOY (C) (SOG-33)

ICE CUBES Leaflets (SOG-33 SOG word)

IGLOO WHITE Sensors placed on LOC’s

IGLOO WHITE/ IGLOO WHITE in-country

DUFFLE BAG

IGLOO WHITE/ IGLOO WHITE operations in Laos or DMZ and NVN

COMMANDO HUNT

INSISTENCE (S) SOG MAROPS in coordination with MARKET TIME (NAVFORV) to

prevent infiltration by sea into SVN

INVERT Call sign of GCI Radar at UBN RTAB (SOG-32)

IRON HAND Anti-SAM missions (SOG-32)

ITALIAN GREEN Introduction of contaminated ammunition in enemy hands. Also ELDEST

SON and POLE BEAN (discontinued) (SOG-33)

IVORY TRUNK Use of Elephants

JELLY BEANS Mail (SOG-33 SOG word)

JGS Joint General Staff, RVNAF

LEAPING LENA Superseded nickname for cross-border operations in Laos

LIAISON SERVICE Counterpart to SOG-35. Subordinate element of the STD

LEGHORN Call sign for Golf-5 Radio Relay Site

LOKI SOG Naval recon activities against NVN

MAINE Communist China (SOG-33 SOG word)

MARKET TIME Coastal patrol in waters of SVN to interdict infiltration into the Delta

MIDRIFF (C) Compromised code word replaced by SHEDDER (C)

MINT A MAROPS interdiction boat mission where 2 or 3 PTF’s are sent to one

of six specific OP areas of the coast of NVN to destroy shipping and take

prisoners

MOON BEAM Call sign of ABCCC at night (STEEL TIGER)

MUD RIVER Air supported anti-vehicular sub-system of the IGLOO WHITE

MUSTARD FLAKE Call sign for VHF Radio located in SOG-32 (SOG-32)

NAD Naval Advisory Detachment. Operates base for MAROPS

NASTY PTF’s Craft employed by MAROPS on missions north of 17.00N

NEW YORK Word for NVN (SOG-33)

NICKEL STEEL SOG operations in the DMZ

OODLES (C) Notional agent teams in NVN; under FORAE (C) program

PANAMA Call sign for GCI radar at Da Nang AFB

PARADISE CU LAO CHAM Island (closed down)

PARBOIL (C) MAROPS in support of FOOTBOY (C) operations in NVN. Formerly

PLOWMAN (C)

PARFAIT (C) SSPL pseudo organization in NVN, under FOOTBOY (C)

PATIO (C) TAC AIR strikes in support of SALEM HOUSE

PEANUTS Radios (SOG-33 SOG word)

PFSP Peoples Front for Social Progress, Channel “C” (SOG-33)

PHU DUNG Nickname replacing PRAIRIE FIRE. Cross-border operations in Laos.

PIKE HILL Ethnic Cambodian intel collection teams

POLE BEAN Program by which various types of Soviet Bloc ammo are contaminated

and inserted into NVA/VC areas of Cambodia, Laos and RVN. Also

known as ELDEST SON and ITALIAN GREEN (discontinued 23 Feb

70 (SOG-33)

POLLACK (C) Project to incriminate North Vietnamese personalities as anti-regime, dissident

elements; under FORAE (C) never implemented

PRACTICE NINE Unclas name for a series of plans concerning the establishment of barriers

in the vicinity of the DMZ and augmented by air interdiction, mining and recon

PRAIRIE FIRE Cross-border operations into SOG’s Laotian AO

PROJECT ATHENS COMUSMACV operations to cut Rte 110 in Laos

PROJECT BUFFALO COMUSMACV operations to cut Rte 547 A Shau Valley

PROJECT JENNY Airborne Psyops Broadcasts (SOG-32, SOG-33)

RED ROCKET Special alerting message originated at JCS level

ROLLING THUNDER Area in NVN north of TALLY HO Area

RUB DOWN Unclas name for MACV plans to conduct large-scale operations into

Cambodia

SALEM HOUSE Cross-border operations into Cambodia

SANITARIES (C) Project Associated with the diversionary program in NVN (TSLD)

SCU Special Commando Unit

SEA DRAGON USN interdiction of NVN coastal shipping 17.00N to 18.00N

SEALS Sea Air Land - the term applies to specially qualified Naval personnel

SHEDDER (C) Airdrops in support of FOOTBOY (C)

SHOT GUN Unclass name for SOG draft deception plan (June 66) to simulate preparatory

actions of an amphibious landing force in the area north of the

DMZ

SINGLETON An agent operation of Airborne Studies Group

SLAM Search, locate, annihilate and monitors special missions often performed

by the C&C detachments

SNOW FLAKES SOG word for MA6 containers

SOAP BUBBLES Indigenous RT members

SOAP CHIPS Psyops booklets in Laos and Cambodia (SOG-33 SOG word)

SPIKE TEAM OP-35 twelve man recon team. No longer used. Applied to short term

operation concept to exploit an identified situation.

SSG Special Security Group

SSO Special Security Office

SSPL Sacred Sword Patriots’ League (SOG-33)

STEEL TIGER Panhandle of Southern Laos

STRATA Short term reconnaissance and target acquisition teams used in crossborder

opns

STRAW HATS US RT members

STRAY GOOSE Now known as COMBAT SPEAR

SWIFT POPS A 50 foot American built patrol boat craft capable of 25 knots, used

mostly for logistic support

TALLY HO Area extending from south of the DMZ to the northern border of Route

Package One (Vicinity of VINH, NVN

TAR HEELS Incapacitating gas

TASK FORCE ALPHA AF organization that operates IGLOO WHITE

TEAR DROPS Materials for drop on the HO CHI MINH TRAIL

THOT NOT Nickname replacing SALEM HOUSE, cross border operation in Cambodia.

THUNDER CLOUD PW Snatch missions in Laos/Cambodia

TIGER HOUND Southern portion of Laos panhandle

TIMBERWORK (C) Agent operations in NVN in support of FOOTBOY (C) program

TOTEM POLE Identification of wire tap equipment

TRAFFIC COP Destroyer operations against coastal shipping of NVN 17.00N to 18.00N

also known as SEA DRAGON

TREAT In-country black propaganda

TROJAN HORSE High level U-2 photography, now known as GIANT NAIL

URANOLITE (C) Project associated with the diversionary program in NVN (TSLD)

WACO CITY Reaction teams inserted at sites of enemy contact or downed a/c to recover

bodies or survivors

WATERBOY Call sign for GCI at Dong Ha, SVN

WILD WEASEL Aircraft employment electronic detection equipment used to detect and

destroy SAM sites

YANKEE STATION Term to describe TASK FORCE 77; that unit of 7th Fleet that conducts

air operations against NVN. Team is made of 3 CVAs and associated destroyers providing screening support and SAR support and also protection  to MAROPS when requested

YANKEE TEAM Tactical recon over Laos

YOUNG TIGERS SAC program for re-locating KC-135s to Taiwan in support of an increased

B-52 effort

Addendum

C & C Command and Control Detachment (SOG-35)

CCC C & C Central located at Kontum

CCN C & C North located at Da Nang

CCS C & C South located at Ban Me Thuot

CLT Camp Long Thanh, MACSOG-38 Training HQ

NKP Nakhon Phanom, Thailand

SCT Sea Commando Team - CSS special operations team (SOG-37)

SCU Special Commando Unit – term normally applied to Montagnard mercenaries Liaison Service Counterpart to MACSOG-35. Is the operational element of the STD which provides personnel for conducting cross-border intelligence gathering missions into Laos and Cambodia. Consists of 30 ARVN-led recon teams. Ten teams at each Task Force.

SRU Special Recon Unit Freedom Runner A nickname to planned, unilateral FANK Special Forces Operations in NW Cambodia (CINCPAC Msg 260231Z May 71 (PASEP))

PASEP Passed separately. Not included with the message or package. Not under

a TAB.

Meritorious Achievement Praiseworthy accomplishment, with an easily discernible beginning

and end, carried through to completion. The length of time involved is not

a consideration but speed of accomplishment may be a factor in determining

the worth of the enterprise.

Meritorious Service Praiseworthy execution of duties over a period of time normally not less

than six months in duration. Service differs from achievement in that service concerns a period of time while achievement concerns an enter prise having a definite beginning and end, but not necessarily connected with a specific period of time.

SAR Search and Rescue. OPCON to 7AF. Authority is listed in 7AF OPLAN

7-15 0r &-30.

FTX Field Training Exercise

DTE A technical control facility performs maintenance, circuit analysis and repairs voice circuits. Planned turn over to civilian contractor but unable to support contract without military personnel.

Red Eye Anti-aircraft heat seeking missile.

Fresh Mandate Nickname for CONPLAN (Concept) -- calls for activation of a Brigade to

counter NVA/VC activity during US deployment. Brigade from 25th Inf Scoffield Barracks.

Special Action Teams UW trained SMS selected for recon. Attend ARVN recon course.

DATAREDACTED

Special Action Specially configured force configured for specific task Force

Exploitation Force Indigenous quick reaction force IDHS Intelligence Data Handling System.

Friar Report Slightly wounded in action report.

Ether Report KIA

AIZ Air Interdiction Zone – PHU DUNG thru THOT NOT. Freedom Deal Nickname for AIZ.

MAP Military Assistance Program -- statutory appropriation of funds for a program.

USAID US Agency for Internal Development “Economic Support Plan”

FY Budget to $150 million from $250. [sic]

AIK Assistance In Kind -- Military (USAID Civilian) assistance, VN supplies labor, AIK material.

MEDTC Charged with supplying material to Cambodia.

Combat Apple Specially configured C-123.