The humid steamy jungles wrapping around Mekong River overshadowed the continual fighting ... The term ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’ has a different meaning since Vietnam.” The Brown Water Navy was ...

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 ...

Another lesson was that every brown-water sailor had to possess a set of unique ... My Tho-based PBRs were berthed at the Vietnam Navy River Assault Group 27 base during this period, which is to the ...

It initially will be just a sliver of the Vietnam-era brown-water fleet at its peak. But leaders in the new command quickly reached out to the old river veterans – scattered when the Navy ...

A Navy seaman ... the “brown water” rivers and canals of the interior. Initially lacking riverine vessels, it soon acquired some — in particular, the nimble patrol boat river, or PBR ...

The brown-water Navy with its heavily armed boats and ... refugees out of Cambodia and housed them on the side of the river in Vietnam at a Red Cross camp.” Meanwhile, the role of U.S. forces ...

A Navy veteran, Restemayer was a forward ... And Tuesday morning, the boat known for brown-water river duty in Vietnam took a saltwater cruise. From the North Marina, powered by two Detroit ...

Organizers of the 19th annual reunion hosted by the Northeast U.S.A. Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association have issued a call for "Brown Water Navy" sailors, aviators and other personnel who served ...

As members of Task Force 116, the Navy’s river patrol ... of the Gamewardens of Vietnam Association, a fraternal organization. At least 200 of the so-called “river rats” and other visitors ...