Complex sentence: Colonel John Sadler, SOG's commander agreed to undertake the mission, even though none of his cross-border reconnaissance teams had ever operated so deep in Laos and the target area was twenty miles (30 km) beyond the unit's authorized area of operations.
Split into simpler sentences: Colonel John Sadler, SOG's commander agreed to undertake the mission, even though none of his cross-border reconnaissance teams had ever operated so deep in Laos. Indeed, the target area was twenty miles (30 km) beyond the unit's authorized area of operations.