RARE OP BRIGHT LIGHT - JCRC- USSF POW RESCUE VIETNAM WAR FLASH BERET PATCH 90

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Rare Beret Flash Patch - Vietnam War - JCRC
US Special Forces - Operation Bright Light (Project Sigma)
1st / 5th Special Forces Airborne - POW RESCUE TEAM
MACV-SOG - Original Beret Flash Patch
Operation Bright Light – Project Sigma
Operation Sigma - Road Runners
Project Sigma, Special Recon was initiated under orders from General Westmoreland in August of 1966 was initially set up to achieve the task of rescuing US Military Operatives held prisoner in Cambodia.
Over the following years the Project was to grow to Eight Recon Teams (Special Recon) and three Commando Companies and in late 1967, under the command of MACV undertook additional Long Range Intelligence Gathering activities in conjunction with the POW search missions.
B-56, (US Special Forces Detachment B-56) was homed at Ho Ngoc Tau and was the base of numerous Montagnard Operatives attached to the Bright Light Operational Teams. (POW RESCUE).
Project Sigma Unit was singled out by the North Vietnamese as been one of the most aggressive Special Forces units involved in Operation Phoenix Missions.
The Road Runners of the US Special Forces were Long Range Recon Patrol Units, otherwise known as Recon Teams. They made up the entire force of Operation Sigma.
JCRC
The JCRC (Joint Casualty Resolution Center) was formed in January of 1973 and was a US Special Forces, MACV-SOG commanded unit responsible for the location of US Prisoner of Wars and US Servicemen lost in combat in the Vietnam theatre of War.
With the US no longer officially conducting aggressive combat missions within Vietnam the role of the JPRC (Joint Prisoner Rescue Command) and Bright Light Teams was officially ended.
This however did not end the search for US Servicemen, missing or held Prisoner and this role was assumed by the JCRC.
Officially the role of the JCRC was to find and collect the remains of servicemen for identification by the newly formed 'Central Identification Laboratory Thailand' (CIL-THAI). The unit operated in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam until 1976. No official, covert ground missions are recorded after this time in South East Asia.
With numerous name and structural changes over the ensuing years the Unit now operates from a Headquarters in Hawaii.