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Comprehensive VIETNAM Reference Guide »
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IT! This is a video of a suicide VBIED (Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosion
Device). The explosions are definitely not like the movies. We were actually
out on patrol that day and heard the blast from about 7 miles away. Watch the
slow moving dump truck moving toward you in the left lane. You'll see some
Iraqi Army humvees pull up behind it before it blows. No Americans hurt that
day. View the video »
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magazine [June 1970] about the USS Harnett County during Operation Giant
Slingshot and view a copy of the Presidential Unit Citation »
River Group One Challenge Coin —
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Space-A Military Travel
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Featured on our Poems & Stories page:
Once I Was A Navyman
Gamewardens of Vietnam
Association would like to express our appreciation to FTCM E. A. Hughes, (SS),
USN (Ret) for permitting its use on our website:
I originally wrote
"Once I Was A Navyman" in 1958 while attending Denver University, as an English
102 assignment. This was after my first hitch in the Navy. In less than a year
I was back in the Navy and served another 20 years. I felt the need to say
something more about my experiences in the Navy for those 20 years, so I
updated my original "Once I Was A Navyman" to reflect some of those
experiences... more »
Featured on our Poems & Stories page:
A Short & Savage Ambush
By Ivan Travnicek,
Submitted by Richard Cragg.
In the dim light of dawn on 24 May 1967,
a two boat Navy patrol was silently drifting down a South Vietnamese river when
Vietcong machine-gun fire erupted.... more »
DFAS
Retired Pay Newsletter »
It's Official!! DD-214's are now online through
the National Personnel Records Center
(NPRC).
Vietnam vets' experience on boats utilized in Iraq
— 7/9/2006 By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY.
Read the full article
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Brown Water Sailors Rededicate Monument (Navy
Newsstand article - 7/27/2006) »
Read CAPT. Kenneth Meek's speech here »
Read presentation by Jack Lynch
here »
 Riverine Warfare website
»
East Coast Memorial Monument and MK I PBR Rededication
Ceremony — July 21, 2006
Details Here »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Vietnam Vets to
Rededicate Monument and Vietnam-Era River Patrol Boat at Little Creek
Amphibious Base.
More
»
 "On
Memorial Day" — The poem read by Tom Glickman's daughter, Cyndi
Szurgot, at the dedication of the Brown Water Navy memorial at the Virginia
Beach Veteran's Memorial »
Vietnam Unit Memorial
Monument request for donations »
View the Vietnam
Unit Memorial Monument program online »
 THEY'RE BACK!! Museum Quality MKI and MKII
PBRs
The PBR models are again available on our Ships Store —
Click
here for the MKII or
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 Mystery Solved! Sam Eaton's account on the
fate of YRBM21 »
"River
Rats" Book by Ralph Christopher at our Ship's Store »
Read about
the Book Signing here
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Enjoy hundreds of clips of
Vietnam-era music
»
Naval Special Warfare Comes
Through at Crunchtime »
NSW boat crews search for Stennis
survivors By JOC Scott Boyle Naval Special Warfare Task Group Katrina Public
Affairs.
Commander Naval Forces
Vietnam (COMNAVFORV) Monthly Summaries »
Brown
Water Navy And Delta Army Vietnam Veterans Message Board »
 Dedication Ceremony & SEAL Capability Exercise pictures from
NAB Little Creek, VA, July 18th & 19th, 2003. Many photos from members!
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Herb Stephan's dedication
speech from the ceremony at the Naval Amphibious Base Special Warfare
Compound at Little Creek, VA, July 18, 2003 »
 View the entire contents of
the book:
A Day In The Life Of The Brown
Water Navy.
A rare book by LTJG John. F. McGuire that outlines an
"average" day on The Mekong Delta in a stunning pictorial fashion.
[PDF document 103K] »
 Video — we've got previews of videos
available on our ship's store. Take a sneak peek at Vietnam February 22nd, 1969 or Gamewardens Reunion in New
Orleans »
 Memories of Tom
Glickman, staff officer, CTF 116 1968-1969
here »
 The official Gamewardens of Vietnam
Newsletter — Brown Water Log. We're working on digitizing back issues
— all the way back to 1968! View our archives
here »
All Hands — View the complete
November 1966 or
April 1978 edition of All Hands magazine
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 Photo Gallery — Close to 300 photos in our
photo gallery with more being added often! See the
images that our members have shared with us here
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