Common
Military Assistance Advisory Group
US military advisors sent to other countries to help train their armed forces
Military Assistance Advisory Group
A Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) is a designation for a group of military advisors from the United States sent to other countries to assist in the training of conventional armed forces and facilitate military aid. Although numerous MAAGs operated around the world throughout the 1940s–1970s, including in Yugoslavia after 1951, and to the Ethiopian Armed Forces, the most famous MAAGs were those active in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, before and during the Vietnam War. Records held by the National Archives and Records Administration detail the activities of numerous assistance advisory groups. In the NATO countries, MAAGs and similar bodies included JAMAG Europe; MAAG Belgium-Luxembourg; MAAG Denmark; MAAG France; MAAGs in Italy; the Netherlands; Norway; and Portugal, and the MAAG United Kingdom (1949-57); and military assistance units in Greece (from 1947); Turkey (from 1947); and Spain (from 1953). MAAGs and military assistance bodies beyond NATO were located...
Open boosters, collect cards and trade them. Free to play.
Play for free