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Operation Game Warden was a joint operation conducted by the United States Navy and South Vietnamese Navy in order to deny Viet Cong access to resources in the Mekong River Delta. Game Warden and its counterpart Operation Market Time are considered to be two of the most successful U.S. Naval actions during the Vietnam War .
USS Garrett County (LST-786) in the Co Chien River, Mekong Delta. Recommissioned on 15 October 1966 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Garrett County saw extensive service during the Vietnam War, operating as part of Operation Game Warden, a brown-water navy effort to keep the rivers free of Viet Cong infiltration.
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.
Operation Game Warden [23] U.S. riverine patrol operation to deny Viet Cong access to the resources in the Mekong Delta: Mekong Delta: 1000: 39 Dec 19–20: Operation Jingle Bells [1] 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: III Corps: Dec 19–22: Operation Clean House II [1] 3/1 Cavalry search and destroy operation ...
A "strike" force was inherently and essentially different from the existing Navy interdiction and patrol forces (the River Patrol Boats of Operation Game Warden, and the coastal blockade of Operation Market Time). The Delta presented a classic venue appropriate to riverine operations such as had not been seen since the Union Navy in the ...
In 1965, when major US combat operations in Vietnam began, the majority of the American public backed US intervention. But a US commitment that swelled to 543,000 personnel by 1969, along with ...
Feb. 15—Investigators believe they have solved the Great Depression-era cold case of an Idaho game warden who vanished in the mountains south of Mullan. Though the body of Ellsworth Arthur Teed ...
Navy PACVs were deployed in Operations Game Warden and Market Time, the Navy's operations to deny Viet Cong access to resources in the Mekong Delta and prevent North Vietnamese weapons, fighters, and supplies from entering South Vietnam, respectively. [29]