Originally Posted by miller0331

The deal on Son Tay is that it was one of the first actual joint service operation that was successful across the board (even though it failed to bring the POWs home due to poor intelligence and group think...). It was put together and executed in a short amount of time with some of the best talent in the military at the time (Simons, Manor, Sydnor, Meadows...). They set a precedence for todays SOCOM.