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  2. Coast Guard Squadron One - Wikipedia

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    Coast Guard Squadron One, also known in official message traffic as COGARDRON ONE or RONONE, was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 for service during the Vietnam War. Placed under the operational control of the United States Navy , it was assigned duties in Operation Market Time .

  3. Cat Lo Naval Base - Wikipedia

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    On 22 February 1966, the newly established Division 13, Coast Guard Squadron One began operations from Cat Lo. [3] In early 1966 PBRs of River Divisions 53 and 54 began operations from Cat Lo. [2]: 103 PACV Division 107 operating the experimental Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle also operated out of Cat Lo during their first deployment to the Vietnam ...

  4. An Thoi Naval Base - Wikipedia

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    On 24 July 1965, the newly established Division 11, Coast Guard Squadron One equipped with 9 Point-class cutters and escorted by the USS Floyd County began the transit from U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to An Thoi arriving on 31 July and commencing Operation Market Time patrols the following day.

  5. List of rivers of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of streams and rivers in Vietnam: Northwestern. Northwestern Vietnam. Black River (Asia) Ma River; Nanxi River (Yunnan) Bôi River; Northeastern

  6. Vietnam Coast Guard - Wikipedia

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    According to the Vietnam Coast Guard Law (Vietnamese: Luật Cảnh sát biển) which "prescribes the status, functions, roles, powers, organization and operation of the Vietnam Coast Guard" and declaring the "responsibilities of involved entities and persons", the Vietnam Coast Guard shall be "...under the absolute and all-aspect leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the supreme ...

  7. Mobile Riverine Force - Wikipedia

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    A Mobile Riverine Force monitor using napalm in the Vietnam War. In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy.

  8. Patrol Craft Fast - Wikipedia

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    The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), [6] also known as Swift Boat, [6] were all-aluminum, 50-foot (15 m) long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-water navy [7] to interdict Vietcong movement of arms and munitions, transport South Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for ...

  9. Operation Market Time - Wikipedia

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    Operation Market Time was the United States Navy, Republic of Vietnam Navy and Royal Australian Navy operation begun in 1965 to stop the flow of troops, war material, and supplies by sea, coast, and rivers, from North Vietnam into parts of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.