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 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 ...

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 ...

As a 21-year old “brown-water sailor” in Vietnam, he served on a combat river ... there were also lots of Navy river boats moving around or tied up to the ships.” Everything was painted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...