As a Tin Can Sailor I Salute the "Small Boat" Sailors. They patrolled the inland waters of Vietnam in "Swift Boats" Extremely Brave Sailors. M2 Brownings were their main armament. We would at times have them pull alongside our Tin Cans & we would cover them while we replenished what ever they needed. GOD Bless & Thank you for your Service. 🇺🇸
Thank you for this.when I was a small boy my neighbor was on this program and and was shot in the arm and he showed it to us. Than a few years later my father went over on the same operation but in the USCG on the Minnetonka. It's good to see what they did because there was very little talk from them about it, but then my father passed away in late 1974.thank you and keep it up.
This video is so interesting I am watching it again. I only knew of Vietnam war being about helicopters and air soldiers. I knew of some boats but nothing to this extent. Salt troops is first I ever heard of in this video. The boats with mortars were very intriguing. That must have been hard to target land units from the water ways. A rocking boat constantly moving, and small hidden targets that are moving through jungle. I guess harassing fire is sufficiently as good as bracket target destruction, In a skirmish. My grandfather was part of the small boat navy; he was a Seabee. I know nothing about the operations of this nature and he use to only talk about stuff to other veterans at VFW, I had to listen in to hear the conversation as a kid. All I know is he rode a small boat down the delta to do “Seabee stuff” as he said. I have recently looked through his paperwork left in closet after he died. He had 30 years of navy service. He has awards signed from the President 🇺🇸 hanging on his walls. He has many ribbons and awards from the navy. Never knew how big the naval operations in waterways were until recently studying the names and acronyms on his navy paperwork.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks 🙏 to the coastal patrol crewmen. Making this documentary authentic and possible.
I volunteered for PBR duty. Thankfully the Navy had enough volunteers and I wasn't called. My General Quarters station on the port 50 caliber on an LST was plenty enough excitement for me! Radioman 2c
geez how did you deal with all of that rocking???? i was on an LST in 86' and the constant rocking, plus the constant sound of splashing fuel in the rack...
Many years ago oilfield diving in Borneo a buddy who was chief on a PBR in Vietnam told me like in the film 'Apocalypse Now' when they shot up a sampan he said, 'that shit happened all the time'.
I'm a CG veteran having served in VN .I was in DaNang .I actually met a fellow Coast Guardsman in Fla. who was on loan to the Navy as a PCF skipper . I was on the 82 footers 67-68 ...
@@MrAmartin8 As a Coastie brat this sir makes me proud and thank you for your service and sacrifice. I haven't met many Vietnam era Coast Guardsmen. My dad was a Gulf War Coast Guardsman was in the gulf on the USCGC Wrangell. He was an MK3.
I remember seeing this in late 1968, while living on Okinawa. My Dad was stationed on Okinawa. I can remember telling my Dad that this was what I wanted to do when I was old enough to enlist in the Navy (Dad was a Chief Petty Officer). The Vietnam War ended one year before I was old enough to enlist. When I did, finally, enlist in the Navy, I went in as an AD(J) (turbine engine mechanic). In a way, I was disappointed but, in later years, I saw enough death/destruction to last me a lifetime & I never want to experience it again.....
I would like to thank all veterans, who participated in all wars, past and present, along with all family members of the deceased, May the hand of God be with all of you forever!
While on an 8-mo WESTPAC in 1967-68 on the USS Bexar APA-237, we were a supporting mother ship for Assualt Riverine Squadrons 13 and 15 in Vung Tau. These ATC boats are depicted at 24:24 - 27:10 in the film. CWO4 USN Ret.
@@glennredwine289 I didn't know that, but why do you think I should care what he did in the privacy of his own home? He was a great actor who I enjoyed watching perform his job.
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Actually it was very accurate. Drop bow & stern anchors & hold the boat steady, using radar determine your exact location & location of target on your map. Start firing & get hit on the target then let up & down motion of the boat put rounds on the target in a random pattern. Also could fire the mortar in direct fire using the trigger fire , lock the elevation lock to fire the round at the known target distance, leave the train lock released so that you can lead the target at high speed. The more you do it you develop the knack to hit targets like the old sailing ships with cannon.
@@merlinmundy6739 Is it possible to drop the angle of the mortar more and engage in direct fire? I'm just curious. First thing I thought when I saw them. For instance, drop the angle down to 40 or 45 degrees and fire directly at visual targets?
@@JeepWrangler1957 if you were on the Hueys, they also had a Cobra there. Huey would broadcast surrender, green tracer come up, huey lights go off disappear, Cobra there with mini gun fire for two minutes, back would be the huey....repeat,!!
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As a Tin Can Sailor I Salute the "Small Boat" Sailors. They patrolled the inland waters of Vietnam in "Swift Boats" Extremely Brave Sailors. M2 Brownings were their main armament. We would at times have them pull alongside our Tin Cans & we would cover them while we replenished what ever they needed. GOD Bless & Thank you for your Service. 🇺🇸
Thank you for this.when I was a small boy my neighbor was on this program and and was shot in the arm and he showed it to us. Than a few years later my father went over on the same operation but in the USCG on the Minnetonka. It's good to see what they did because there was very little talk from them about it, but then my father passed away in late 1974.thank you and keep it up.
As a Coast Guard Veteran thank you for your service all of you!
Nice to see and hear Raymond Burr as narrator.
Thanks to all who served in the River War in Vietnam.
@k henne That depends on your age. Google 'Perry Mason' TV drama series. They still rerun that sucker!
He was my neighbor in the 80's living in Toronto. He lived in the same high rise condo as me, often saw him in the elevator.
I was at Nha Be in 69' and 70' . It changed from when this was made. I kept the PBR's electrical working, mostly changing alternators and starters.
On the toot in 71. Engine repair and overhaul for pigs and chickens program
I was in Nha Be on MSB's Minesweep Boats 1970. There is ONLY one 5 min Video of them IF you can FIND it.
My husband just recently passed away, he was a Brown Water Navy mine sweeper. (Game Wardens) In September 2022 he had a reunion in San Diego.
It is in the name, "Small Boat Navy" that the boats were not so big, but used the "waterways" to the full. This was a good video about these.
Thanks, Periscope! They had good old GM/Detroit power on those rigs too. Thanks again!
"my orders say i'm not supposed to know where i'm taking this boat, so i don't....but one look at you, and i know it's gonna be hot!"
It's gonna be hot!
I don't smoke.
PBR Streetgang
@@DimitriDelCastillo iii
About 75 klicks past the Doe Long bridge. "That's Cambodia Captain", "That's classified"
VietNam was the best duty I had during my 6 years in. The aircraft carrier was the worst place I was stationed.
I ended up in Nam because i received orders to a carrier and turned them down. Boatswains mate on a carrier sucks.
This video is so interesting I am watching it again. I only knew of Vietnam war being about helicopters and air soldiers.
I knew of some boats but nothing to this extent. Salt troops is first I ever heard of in this video. The boats with mortars were very intriguing. That must have been hard to target land units from the water ways. A rocking boat constantly moving, and small hidden targets that are moving through jungle. I guess harassing fire is sufficiently as good as bracket target destruction, In a skirmish.
My grandfather was part of the small boat navy; he was a Seabee. I know nothing about the operations of this nature and he use to only talk about stuff to other veterans at VFW, I had to listen in to hear the conversation as a kid. All I know is he rode a small boat down the delta to do “Seabee stuff” as he said.
I have recently looked through his paperwork left in closet after he died. He had 30 years of navy service. He has awards signed from the President 🇺🇸 hanging on his walls. He has many ribbons and awards from the navy.
Never knew how big the naval operations in waterways were until recently studying the names and acronyms on his navy paperwork.
Hitting moving targets with moving guns has always been a Navy specialty.
Brown water Navy for those and Blue water Navy for the offshore, Agent Orange distinction.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks 🙏 to the coastal patrol crewmen. Making this documentary authentic and possible.
I volunteered for PBR duty. Thankfully the Navy had enough volunteers and I wasn't called. My General Quarters station on the port 50 caliber on an LST was plenty enough excitement for me! Radioman 2c
geez how did you deal with all of that rocking???? i was on an LST in 86' and the constant rocking, plus the constant sound of splashing fuel in the rack...
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Great flick! I'm retired Navy.
Raymond Burr always supported the oceans and its people working the seas.
Thank you men for your service
Raymond Burr one of my favorite Canadians ❤
I was there operation game warden, PBR 1966/1967
living in Vung Tau you would not believe the change from when this movie was made
Saw the houses there
Must at one time been a beautiful place. Hope they restored it to its original beauty.
And without american's democracy :)
Unbelievable! I didn't know that Raymond Burr could walk.
geez how did you deal with all of that rocking????
LOL, awesome.
really ?
Nice! Skyhawks and Phantoms being launched at the start of the video! I already thought when the video started; I know this man! Ironside!
LOL I thought the same thing
was on the Cua Viet river in 67-68
How much CCR did you blast?
great vid! Wish there was a vid on the Navy advisors in the junk force
Many years ago oilfield diving in Borneo a buddy who was chief on a PBR in Vietnam told me like in the film 'Apocalypse Now' when they shot up a sampan he said, 'that shit happened all the time'.
Lots of small boats in the "Brown Water Navy" and riverine forces were actually manned by Coast Guardsmen.
I'm a CG veteran having served in VN .I was in DaNang .I actually met a fellow Coast Guardsman in Fla. who was on loan to the Navy as a PCF skipper . I was on the 82 footers 67-68 ...
@@MrAmartin8 As a Coastie brat this sir makes me proud and thank you for your service and sacrifice. I haven't met many Vietnam era Coast Guardsmen. My dad was a Gulf War Coast Guardsman was in the gulf on the USCGC Wrangell. He was an MK3.
Seebees too!
that would make sense
Uncle was mechanic on one regular navy he said his boat had twin thirty cal
Xin cám ơn những người bạn Hoa Kỳ 🇺🇸.
Thanks my brothers.
I remember seeing this in late 1968, while living on Okinawa. My Dad was stationed on Okinawa. I can remember telling my Dad that this was what I wanted to do when I was old enough to enlist in the Navy (Dad was a Chief Petty Officer). The Vietnam War ended one year before I was old enough to enlist. When I did, finally, enlist in the Navy, I went in as an AD(J) (turbine engine mechanic). In a way, I was disappointed but, in later years, I saw enough death/destruction to last me a lifetime & I never want to experience it again.....
Tra Cu 1970… Advisor to RVN Navy…cannot forget!
I would like to thank all veterans, who participated in all wars, past and present, along with all family members of the deceased, May the hand of God be with all of you forever!
While on an 8-mo WESTPAC in 1967-68 on the USS Bexar APA-237, we were a supporting mother ship for Assualt Riverine Squadrons 13 and 15 in Vung Tau. These ATC boats are depicted at 24:24 - 27:10 in the film. CWO4 USN Ret.
Pretty cool very interesting too.nice boat or ship still do it this day too.??awesome job thank you so much
@bulldog23ist that's great to know.thank you for your answer too greatly appreciated it too.
Hey it's Chief Ironside, HE CAN WALK AGAIN! PRAISE THE LORD!
Did you know Chief Ironside Raymond Burr was gay??
@@glennredwine289 I didn't know that, but why do you think I should care what he did in the privacy of his own home? He was a great actor who I enjoyed watching perform his job.
Hard to believe he murdered his trouble & strife in Rear Window!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
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My friend Denny Olson ran twin 50s on an ATC (or some kind of troop carrier) in 67. Practically stone deaf before he died a few years back.
tell me about it!
Gracias
Firing a mortar off of a boat bouncing up and down in the water must of been very innacurate? 7:45
Actually it was very accurate. Drop bow & stern anchors & hold the boat steady, using radar determine your exact location & location of target on your map. Start firing & get hit on the target then let up & down motion of the boat put rounds on the target in a random pattern. Also could fire the mortar in direct fire using the trigger fire , lock the elevation lock to fire the round at the known target distance, leave the train lock released so that you can lead the target at high speed. The more you do it you develop the knack to hit targets like the old sailing ships with cannon.
These guys are pros.
@@merlinmundy6739 Is it possible to drop the angle of the mortar more and engage in direct fire? I'm just curious. First thing I thought when I saw them. For instance, drop the angle down to 40 or 45 degrees and fire directly at visual targets?
I talked to some Viet Nam veterans that said they were on army gun boats.
Army had more small boats than the; SN.
Coast Guard was also there. Army watercraft were for transport not patrol
@@JeepWrangler1957 if you were on the Hueys, they also had a Cobra there. Huey would broadcast surrender, green tracer come up, huey lights go off disappear, Cobra there with mini gun fire for two minutes, back would be the huey....repeat,!!
@@jerrynewberry2823 the Corps didn’t get snakes until later. In fact the Corps is still flying Huey’s and Cobra’s.
You'll be surprised at how many ship's the army has, it's fleet is much larger than most countries Navies have.
And today , Nam is a big tourist attraction. Who knew.
Susie Q, OH Susie Q ,baby I love you Susie Q 😍❤
whe have one of this boats in Panama is in service in Rodman Aeronaval Good boat ⭐⭐⭐
Where's the P B R !
PBR Streetgang, Almighty, Radio Check. Always remember than from the movie.
Raymond Burr USN 🇺🇸
Is true that the small boat navy (aka the brown water navy} also used USCG personal to man the small boats
My grandpa was a river rat in the brown water Navy
My husband too
He keeps saying "the small boat Navy" but the troops called it "the brown water Navy."
Wanted to go to nam peace broke out. Just missed.
Calling PBR Street Gang...never get off the boat...
NVA & VC -vs- Taliban. I wonder how that would turn out?
Where’s PT 73 ?
Ya in the wrong war son ...PT boats were WWII ...
SaDec 67-68
MSB 50 min div 11
Task force 116.
Be nice if these jagoffs would move their watermark
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this is partly propaganda, hence 'Perry Mason' as narrator. But it all happened and worse.
For that reason US won the war !!!!!!!!!!! hahaha, from Australia
Brown water Navy. River Rats.
Trên thế giới có duy nhất Việt nam win Usa
Unfortunately, nobody won that war. Should have never happened. 😢
Jail them.
Propaganda!
This footage is most definitely SANITIZED