Talk:Mobile Riverine Force

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This article is grossly biased toward the US Navy and gives practically no credit to the Army for its part in the fighting in the Mekong Delta. I was there, I know. I was an infantryman in the 9th Division (4/47) in 1968 and 1969.

Army troops did the fighting. The Navy delivered us in Tango boats to various spots in the maze of rivers, streams and canals and then left. We engaged and pursued the enemy.

To give the sailors on the small boats their due, it was dangerous to deliver us to the patrol areas and, of course, some sailors were killed and wounded doing it. We soldiers participated in all the risk the sailors endured and then we stayed to fight.

The sailors who manned the troopships in the milewide river never participated in any of the fighting. They may as well have been on civilian ships for all the risk and privation they endured. This is also true of the Navy and Army personnel who never left Dong Tam.

Peter

Petesally (talk) 13:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]