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MAC V SOG: Team History of a Clandestine Army Volume 5 This is the fifth publication in the MAC V SOG series by Jason Hardy. The limited printing of 500 copies are hard cover with a dust jacket and chronologically breaks down the history of Recon Teams: ALABAMA (FOB#1 AND CCC), HABU (CCN) AND MICHIGAN (CCN). The large format, 400 page book is on heavy archival paper with over a thousand period photographs of Recon Team personnel, mission notes, letters home, and artifacts. The author has identified the following individuals as having served on the teams during their tour in Vietnam; RT Alabama: John J. Allen Jr., Kenneth M. Cryan, Paul C. King Jr., Timothy K. Schaaf, Steven Engelke, Lynne M. Black Jr., James D. Stride Jr., Gentry O. Deck, Robert J. Gullette, James F. Morse, Allyn S. Waggle, Carl R. Franquet III, Allen G. Sammartino, Donald A. Green, Samuel T. Helland, Kent R. Marshall, John J. Kinstrey, Phillip Hoffman, Richard A. Fisher, James C. McIlroy Jr. RT Habu: Silas W. McDade, Duane L. Chilson, Wayne L. Hawes, James W. Lytle, Florentino Campos, Frank L. Picoli, Mark S. Gentry, Francis J. McCloskey, Craig M. Teal, Stephen H. Porter, James W. Horton, James H. Correll III, Slawomir Grabianowski, Lemuel D. McGlothern Jr., Lloyd Adams, Jimmie R. Johnson, Charles W. Danzer Jr., Richard N. Brokhausen, Robert E. Cook, Kenneth W. Homes, Stephen G. Hink and Hurley J. Gilpin. RT Michigan: Cyril M. Gray Jr., William E. Lawson, Ferdinand M. Haniczak, Paul A. Bridgewater, Larry R. Payne, Charles E. Borg, Eldon Bargewell, Charles C. Willoughby, Richard A. Fitts, Henry L. Thompson III, Joseph A. Nash, Donald C. Sheppard, Michael J. Morehouse, Terry L. Cox, Ralph S. Favorite Jr., Charles F. Reed, James B.D.E. Weisboro, John H. Adkins, Michael G. Stahl, James H. Correll II, Terry L. Cunning, Richard H. McNatt, Madison A. Strohlein, Dennis M. Kerczewski, Robert L. Bolton, Gary L. Hollingsworth, George Reando, Karl U. Blaine and Robert D. Thomas.