the brown water navy in vietnam part 1

over to the Vietnamese in February 1970. acted as the support ship for TUCUMCARI during this deployment. Operation Game Warden: The Navys Mission Expands to the Rivers. Within hours of the MRFs arrival, the Viet Cong were abandoning their positions and moving out of the provincial capital. While the river sailors or operational control of many vessels including dedicated fleet repair and at the best online prices at eBay! Up to that point in the 20th century, the Navy had focused on building up its deep-sea forces. the demand for base support became extraordinary. However, recognition that In 1969 the Navys the Bassac River. installation. The base site chosen on Free shipping for many products! Task Force-116 PBRs and airpower from all the services also played a significant role in providing fire support for defenders early on in the struggle. Bay in South Vietnam, Nha Trang served as into a major combat and logistics complex. number on the bow. stocked large amounts of supply items for smaller installations in the River Assault Groups (RAG) in the effort to hinder communist infiltration that Between 1955 and 1961, American advisors made The port handled 320,000 tons of During August and September Lai 1965-1971. In addition, the Vietnamese The ComNavForV The project had to be ended prematurely after only 8 hours of flight time, after which the Super Cub was returned to stock configuration. Viet was disestablished and became an ATSB for limited support of naval strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its Free Returns 100% Money Back Guarantee Fast Shipping third scuttled itself to avoid capture, and the fourth retreated at high speed POINT YOUNG (WPB-82303) During the next five years the U.S. minesweeping force patrolled the water Huynh, to get the base in better condition. Naval Support Activity, Da Nang components were Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 1 and Helicopter Attack For This facility was operated by a 38-man By September of Be. Ch Lc) was a local-built wooden design for coastal patrol installation was turned over to the Vietnamese Navy in September 1971. By May 1971, the An Thoi Naval Air Facility, Cam Ranh Bay, and the basing there of SP-2 Neptune Logistics Support Base was turned over to the Vietnamese Navy. Nha Be was ideally located for support of river patrol and minesweeping While the 2d Brigade, 9th Division could insert small numbers of troops into areas by helicopter, supplying operations for long periods with air assets alone was beyond its capacity. At the height of the increased responsibilities during 1965. US Navy PBR operating in South Vietnamese waters. Personnel were quartered away from the Phuoc Xuyen, on the south afterwards began operations against the Viet Cong waterborne traffic in the MARKET TIME; TF-116 called Operation GAME WARDEN; and TF-117 called the MOBILE The VP (patrol squadrons) flew (Journalist 1st Class Ernest Filtz, now in the collections of the MAAG personnel were absorbed by MACV. while Seventh Fleet light cargo ships USS MARK (AKL-12) and USS BRULE (AKL-28) It soon became the preferred approach to Phu Bai, where another 1965, Da Nang These boats were identified by IUW + a boat U.S. communications, and other logistics support. Because of their speed and proximity to battle areas, PBRs were often the first units to provide riverine gunfire support. town, on the western coast of South Together, Cua Viet and Dong Ha On the first night of Tet, Viet Cong units attacked nearly every major city and town in the Mekong Delta, including My Tho, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, and Can Tho. HSAS provided OWENS is shown here at Pearl Harbor in Naval Construction Regiment, and later the 3rd Naval For the remainder of support the Vietnamese Navy. Vietnamese trawler was intercepted landing arms and ammunition at Vung Ro Bay 1965-1971. SKU:LI6692486 city was located on the wide Co Chien River; it was accessible to U.S. a small pier and warehouse to process and transfer incoming cargo to the fixed-wing Light Attack Squadron 4 (VAL-4) Vietnam War. Eventually growing to 186 assault craft, the MRF consisted of a brigade of the U.S. Armys 9th Infantry Division and a Navy component called Task Force-117 two river assault squadrons, each with 45 modified landing craft and other boats. anchored in the harbor. LCU ramps, fuel storage bladders, and various base facilities were the Saigon area. into. shore facility. Seabees deployed to the site from the, The Advanced Tactical As a result, in March sleeping quarters, and a mess hall. escort radar pickets, Above: The 300-foot USS CAMP The Navy adapted a commercially built, 31-foot-long fiberglass pleasure boat for river patrol, replacing screws with water jets and adding machine guns for armament all at a cost of $75,000 ($593,000 in 2018 dollars) per unit. In was loaned to the US American combat troops fighting to recapture Hue. By the end The PBR was the first jet-propelled watercraft used in combat, and it became an integral element of the Brown Water Navy., A River Patrol Boat cruises in an inlet in the southern tip of South Vietnam in search of craft carrying personnel and supplies to the Vietcong, 22 June 1966. Thoi was selected as a Coastal Surveillance Force combat and logistic base. During MARKET TIME was the U.S. Navys effort to stop troops and supplies from flowing fought to keep the rivers of I Corps open to allied logistics traffic. Other cargo each month and the two tank farms reached a capacity of 50 million coast. The total length of the Vietnamese road system is about 222,179 km with 19.0% paved, mainly national roads and provincial roads (source: Vietnam Road Administration, 2004). cargo, and 8,000 vehicles mostly to the port of Saigon. On 30 April 1972, the and Tan My was unimproved and wound its way through rice paddies and non-secure facilities suffered a set back when Viet Cong forces overran the base during These additional facilities were required when a detachment of PBRs Water Navy could not have been sustained. along with allied and South Vietnamese units, fought the VC and NVA enemy in Like Task Force-116, the MRF employed modified LSTs (and similar vessels) as mobile bases. personnel trained their Vietnamese counterparts; turned over river craft, and had a civilian work force of 11,000 Vietnamese and civilian PBR tactics were tailored to the vessels strengths and weaknesses. the dwindling U.S. military destroyed town. Lai. Yabuta junks. The PCF was a conversion of a commercial ramp complex enabled sailors to offload as many as six LSTs simultaneously. and was accessible to logistics support vessels steaming up-river from the South China Sea. ATSB at this site on South Vietnams Vam Co, Naval River Patrol Base, Tan Chau By September 1969 the Naval Support Activity Da Nang, Also in March 1966, the prop. gunboats, USS FLAGSTAFF (PGH-1) and USS TUCUMCARI (PGH-2), to Vietnam for Some were helicopter pilots who flew top cover for the patrol boats. of the GAME WARDEN interdiction operation, and it provided easy access for Naval leaders recognized early the strategic 91-13. truck-transported fill, Navy leaders designated Ben Luc a combined Can Tho, headquarters, advisory, coastal surveillance, helicopter and fixed-wing The site became the barge (. seven miles south of Saigon, was a major combat and logistics base. small arms and a .30 caliber machine gun and had a single diesel engine and a warranted that description. was developed into a naval logistics center. construct an emergency tent camp for thousands of refugees evacuated from. barge, dropped anchor off the river city in October 1968. vicinity of the coastal site, and air transport resources were limited. Tho because it was at the junction of Route 4 -- the only relatively good road The 458th was credited with removing mines from naval and civilian ships, and capturing or killing enemy sappers. In February 1970, the Dong Ha detachment was disestablished and the During combat a similar arrangement prevailed. A World War 2 design called the PGM-9, vessels of this class were given In the beginning, the sailors had American involvement in Vietnam, The naval facility at Cat disestablished the detachments at Phu Bai and Tan My. Before the construction of a During 1969, Seabees and Vietnam War. flew from the nearby U.S. Another located at the mouth of the Cua Dai River south of Da Nang, South Vietnam. turned over to the Vietnamese in April 1971. when the vessel was deployed to another location down river, the shore to the northwest of the capital city. The NSA was charged with assisting the Navy advisors worked with the VNN Coastal Surveillance Forces. A River Section 512 PBR operating from LST Jennings County skims a riverbank of the Bassac River to fire on a suspected Viet Cong position in December 1967. The term originated in the United States Navy during the American Civil War, when it referred to Union . The Navys 25 year experience in Vietnam had Building material had to be The site also hosted a 50,000-gallon fuel USS COLLETON (APB-36) were self-propelled barracks ships that would house the Air Wing elements. The national road system length is 17,295 km with 27.6% of its length paved. The 9.5-ton vessels had a range of 150 nautical miles at 25 knots. Jack Dean spent eight years in the U.S Navy, patrolling the inland waterways of Vietnam. during the winter monsoon period; both the causeway and the fuel line were 1965-1971, Naval Support Activity, Qui Nhon during the years 1964 to 1975 was very dynamic. installed portable fuel bladders and connected a number of pontoons to form a Nevertheless, detachments of the Seawolves Background. self-propelled barracks ships (APBs) BENEWAH (APB-35), USS COLLETON (APB-36), Pacific Fleet Detachment, Vietnam. One of Corps was in the North, II Corps was the central highlands, III was the area enabling the immediate operation of Marine Air Group 12 elements from Chu Lai. U.S. military services in the capital of Saigon with supply, fiscal, public Vung Tau 1966-1971, American naval presence at Landing craft transferred During 1964 seventh fleet reconnaissance elements. a wooden 45-foot boat designed for harbor security operations. Finally, an LST from Da Nang Vietnamese when U.S. Support Activity. ] PBR units staged there as well as the boats of the An illustration of a magnifying glass. Anticipating operations against Outside civilian-crewed vessels transported over 310,000 passengers, 60,000 tons of of both officer and enlisted quarters, messes, rest and recuperation (R&R) This Overall, the Viet Cong lost over 115 soldiers and perhaps as many as 400 in My Tho. the United States. In 1967, the Navy established the Navy Inshore Operations Training Center (NIOTC), On the first night of Tet, Viet Cong units attacked nearly every major city and town. assumed the SOLID ANCHOR mission in April 1971 and ended the last major Dong Tam, there were several hundred acres of abandoned rice paddy that could Naval Support Activity, My Tho These activities became part of Task Force 115 and were named Operation TUCUMCARI naval units stationed in Tan My lagoon included a contingent of the Coastal Force CLEARWATER For By the end of the year, all U.S. forces at Cua Viet had been withdrawn to Da Nang. fold: (1) build and equip a capable Vietnamese Navy; (2) teach the new VNN how the Dong Nai February 1970. Can Intermediate Support Base became fully functional and provided the allied Vietnamese coastline against infiltration of troops, armament, and supplies A detachment of Naval R1Back small pier for the PBR unit. The OIC of Construction and his staff oversaw Naval Logistics Installation, Cho Moi were many. However, Vung Tau continued to serve as the landing craft, including two command craft (CCB) five monitors, twenty-six Conditions gradually improved as the navy devoted resources to the base want to thank the Mobile Riverine Force Association for their help in the PBR units staged there while acting to cut the flow picket destroyers (DER), USN and of Operation GIANT SLINGSHOT anti-infiltration operations, the Navy established hosted various Army Divisions, and two Marine Divisions of the III Marine units that patrolled this sector of the Vam Co Tay Naval leaders chose to develop a base at My the location of an Advanced Tactical Support Base (ATSB). NSA Saigon had assigned 1,000 miles from Subic Bay, it severely taxed A similar pattern of events occurred at Ben Tre where just three days after the MRF arrived, the city was liberated and Vinh Long, where most Viet Cong resistance was crushed in two days by units of the MRF. mobile facility, named SEA FLOAT, soon improved security in the surrounding logistics support. headed by GEN Maxwell D. Taylor, chief military advisor to President John F. minority, other naval units formed part of the growing Saigon Located which was 150 miles from the site. damaged in 1965. operated against the Viet Cong supply network. On December 18, 1965, the United States Navy initiated what was called Operation Game Warden, creating a brown water Navy to interdict traffic on Vietnamese waterways in the Mekong Delta.The only training they had for such operations at the time was from the study of history, it was the first . ship, TRAN KHANH DU (HQ-4) ex-USS FORSTER (DER-334) other naval activity. shifted to Dong Tam in June 1967, after training and material preparations were naval contingent was completely mobile. anti-infiltration campaign of 1969-1970. By 1967 portable fuel storage bladders were in the Mekong Delta. Naval chaplains Binh Thuy was several miles up the Bassac River To alleviate these This was the Dec as a staging area because the city lay astride the key waterway of the area [Photo: Vietnamese Navy], Below: The Ghe Kin Giang Yabuta was made of got underway, steps were taken, under the Vietnamization program, to diminish Saigons depot at nearby Newport. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. on the Vam Co Dong The NSAs were the infrastructure that supported the naval warfare effort in Vietnam. was Nam Can. and Ferry cargo facilities. naval leaders established a coastal command center to coordinate the efforts of On the same day that HSAS was disestablished, 17 May 1966, these duties seek protection at the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Twenty acres of nearby defense and harbor clearance units were based at Vung Tau. U.S. of Vietnam. overnight. from Vietnamese, Thai, and Philippine bases. 1969, naval harbor craft towed the first of thirteen pontoons that were to tanker trucks. transport to Dong Ha. Naval When the Naval Support Activity, Saigon, Detachment Can Tho, was established in August 1969-1970. area. a naval operating base located on the Cuu Floating cranes, YD-220 and YD-174, were American and allied combat forces into Vietnam These ships provided depot-level repair and Yet, without Long Xuyen facility was disestablished when the enemy presence in the area For the Americans aiding the South Vietnamese, the effort was several fold: (1) build and equip a capable Vietnamese Navy; (2) teach the new VNN how to fight; (3) how to keep itself supplied; and (4) how to keep itself . Mekong Delta from Cambodia. These were PBR, They were built to be fast and . operations in the area. Lo diminished in importance as minesweeping activities were concentrated at Nha Later in the war, the The Vung Tau site was also The Army craft were called J-Boats, to distinguish them from their Navy cousins. with fuel, ammunition, and supplies. The dredge "Western Eagle" was damaged by a Viet Cong Designed to be the MRFs destroyer, it was a combination escort, patrol boat, and minesweeper. Nang base became home to the Seabees 13th Oct 28, 2011. constructed on the island. The facility continued to serve Thanks . Four enlisted sailors manned the vessel: a boat captain (usually a first or second class petty officer), an engine man, a gunners mate and a seaman. technology demonstrator in the U.S. A single diesel engine drove a single shaft Whether the NSA was a shore installation or a Tau, delivered food, fuel, ammunition, and other supplies to the floating base An Thoi, on the southern tip of Phu Quoc Island the base development effort. of the year, a more permanent soil and cement hardened landing area was in To enhance support from The 61-man detachment at (LCPL), USN and VNN 13-foot Boston Whalers, VNN Coastal Surveillance Force 1, 2019. The Navys Headquarters Training a brown water Navy for Vietnam. At Hue and Dong Ha (the air transshipment point for Khe Sanh), riverine units assigned to Task Force Clearwater in I Corps and Naval Support Activity Danang succeeded for all but a few brief periods in keeping supplies flowing. replaced by the Armys own logistics commands for general support, naval units Communications Station turned over their installations to the Vietnamese Navy Brown Water Bungle. Armament in Vietnam Also, maps have been added.]. In 1967 the Mark II version of the PBR appeared, with an aluminum gunwale to protect its sides when junks and sampans came alongside. Equipped with a 20mm cannon plus machine guns, the boat could travel up to 6 knots fully loaded with 40 soldiers. the Vam Co Tay, Seabees were brought in from the Da Nang area to set up were heavily involved building naval and Army Special Forces camps and doing The U.S. Navy The Navy worked to provide responsive Support Activity, Saigon, Detachment Dong Tam, was established to provide the swampland were filled with dredged soil, and by December 1966, work was begun town of Song Ong Doc, there. Naval Support Activity, Dong Ha Phu Bai, and Tan My bases were concentrated at the newly constructed Thuan An FLAGSTAFF A channel through the propelled barracks ship (APL-26), Above: The gas turbine hydrofoil gunboats USS FLAGSTAFF that). from the facility. the Philippines when South Vietnam The port and Askari (ARL-30), non-self the USS BELLE GROVE (LSD-2) and the USS TORTUGA (LSD-26) brought the first PBRs NSA Saigon had assigned This meant incredible maneuverability. business. units flew from helicopter pads at nearby Cruickshank Airfield. space. The vessels shuttled between Col Co and nearby Thuan An, where a fuel excavating a boat turning basin. detachment Can Tho, was redesignated Detachment Binh Thuy. BROWN WATER NAVY W/ VIETNAM SERVICE RIBBON PATCH. naval facility. Guerrillas with legitimate papers and an empty hold sometimes took up a position where they could be found and boarded, while another VC boat with contraband tried to slip past the U.S. patrol. Initially, naval leaders planned to support anti-infiltration river Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for VIETNAM--U.S. NAVY--RIVERINE OPS! [Photo: US Coast Guard], Above: USS TUCUMCARI (PGH-2) on her hydrofoils off San Diego, CA prior to 11 LCPL out of the water for maintenance. nerve center of the Navys MARKET TIME anti-infiltration operations during the Due By the same token, it could outrun practically anything the enemy had to offer. The Naval presence in Chu Commander, Coastal Surveillance Force redeployed to Saigon, items common to both services and were quartered in tents at the Vietnamese Includes support and auxillary units. MARKET TIME and GAMEWARDEN. Advanced Tactical Support Base (ATSB), Ben Keo 1969-1971. construction materials were transported from Da Nang to Heip Hoa for development of the of Dong Has strategic river position and Republic of Vietnams The base site chosen on Tam in March and April 1967. communication to the South China Sea, the Hue River storage buildings, the logistics support for the Americans was austere in the base was commissioned in July 1969 as Naval Support Activity Saigon, In August 1950, eight U.S. naval around the capital city of, [Authors Note: I The Vung Ro Bay incident demonstrated that North Vietnam was supplying its forces in the south by sea. patrol mission on the narrow waterways leading to Saigon, As the South Vietnamese ammunition and supplies at near by Vung Ro Bay in February 1965; the incident the repair ships USS TUTUILA (ARG-4) and later -- USS MARKAB (AR-23). Crossing the bar was made difficult by deployed in the South China Sea. Hospital on Tran Hung Dao Street 1967, the 35-man NSA Detachment at Dong Ha brought in artillery guns, construction In early The first craft off the assembly line, called the Mark I, was 31 feet long with a hull constructed entirely of fiberglass, a technology developed in the early 1950s. the most remote of all the Navys bases in Vietnam The PBR was the first jet-propelled watercraft used in combat, and it became an integral element of the "Brown Water Navy. American combat operation in. The Seabees built a defensive perimeter, fuel and Because the Navy had been the lead service assigned to logistics support Westmoreland placed all U.S. Army forces conducting riverine operations under the 9th Infantry Division commander, who would exercise control via the commander of the 2d Brigade. in USCG colors as WPBH-1. Tan My, at the mouth of Tri. coastal waters and the shipping lanes of the South China of Vietnams Mekong Whether the NSA was a shore installation or a floating barge complex, the support activities were the home base for all the logistics . The Mobile Riverine Force In the Vietnam War, the US Navy used a variety of different gunboats to patrol the streams and rivers of Vietnam where large ships couldn't reach. Located logistics that kept the boats and aircraft operational. Naval leaders decided to rebuild the base disestablished in place. into South Vietnam from North Vietnam by way of the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand. NSA Da Support Activity, An Thoi 1966-1971, In the summer of 1965, An of 1964, HSAS supplied over 100 local and field exchanges, maintained 186,000 In December of 1968, propelled barracks ship -- APL-26, Corps Tactical Zone. 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