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This site was conceived by me for Mike, who has been a member of Silicon Investor since 1998, with over 12,000 posts. Mike recently received the highest honor that our Special Forces awards, membership in the Regimental Hall of Fame. He is the 95th member. I consider this honor to be on the level of receiving the Medal of Honor. Here is a picture of Mike in the Hall of Fame May 9th, 2013, next to his picture and citation.  He is featured on The Military Channel in the TANK BATTLE VIETNAM show. "Mike receiving 2 combat awards SF HQ RVN 1969" they were a Bronze Star for Heroism and a Purple Heart.  The ceremony last month  With his family. His father, on the right, is a WWII vet.  The Hall of Fame  MAJOR MICHAEL D. LINNANE U.S. Army, Retired Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment Inducted May 9, 2013 Michael D. Linnane served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, predominantly in Special Forces assignments. He completed Special Forces Training, earning his Green Beret in 1962. After attending OCS, he received a commission in the Infantry. While serving with ODA-244, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Ben Het, Vietnam, Linnane led a small force of Special Forces, indigenous soldiers and a U.S. tank platoon in a 10-day continuous battle against a North Vietnamese Army Battalion, which was reinforced with 10 Soviet PT 76 tanks. They succeeded in destroying two of the PT 76 tanks and a personnel carrier that came within their range as well as most of the enemy attackers. In other SF assignments, he became a subject-matter expert in developing operational concepts for urban Special Forces operations. In Berlin, he further honed his expertise as a staff sergeant with an alpha-detachment and, later, as a team commander serving under then-Major Sidney Shachnow. Fluent in German, he developed training scenarios that included performing unconventional warfare in cities, conducting target reconnaissance, establishing live caches and dead letter drops, setting up safe houses and befriending useful local leaders. Major Linnane is qualified in military free fall (HALO) and combat-diving concepts, including performing combat-training dives from submarines with SEAL Team II as part of the major expansion of SF organizations and capabilities. He also served in many key assignments in the conventional Army. While a company commander with one unit, he tested a new Advanced Infantry Training concept. He completed a bachelor of arts while on active duty. As a major, he held conventional command and staff positions. Although selected for Command and General Staff College and integration as a regular Army Officer, his combat-related wounds and injuries forced him to accept medical retirement in 1982. After retirement, Linnane started a highly successful contractor construction company. One of the founders of the Save the Montagnard People Organization, funded initially by individual Special Forces veterans, he served as co-chairman of the Montagnard Scholarship Fund for two years. Since 1986, he has sponsored 13 5th SFG (A) Montagnard families and 30 single Montagnard single Montagnard warriors from Ben Het and Dak To. Additionally, in 2002, Linnane set up the Green Beret Warehouse in Greensboro, N.C., to support the large resettlement of Montagnard Civilian Irregular Defense Group families and soldiers. From this location, SF and civilian volunteers are able to provide fully furnished apartments and clothing for newly arriving families sponsored by Special Forces veterans. Work with the Montagnards, to him, epitomizes living the Special Forces motto “De Oppresso Liber” to the fullest extent possible. He has been active in the Special Forces community, serving as treasurer, secretary, vice-president and president of a Special Forces Association chapter. In recognition of his many contributions to the SF community, he was awarded the Silver St. Philip Neri Medal. He is currently the treasurer of Purple Heart Chapter 638, and was a founding member and operations officer of Veterans of Special Forces. Major Linnane’s military awards include: the Bronze Star Medal with one oak-leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal with one oak-leaf cluster, two Purple Heart Medals, Combat Infantryman Badge, Master Parachute Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, Berlin Occupation Medal, Vietnam Parachute Badge, Belgian Parachute Badge, German Parachute Badge and Spanish Parachute Badge. Here is a recent video about him. | ||||||||||||
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