Patrol boat, riverboats and speedboats (documentary) – Vietnam War

Patrol Boat, River or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hull patrol boat used during the Vietnam War from March 1966 to late 1971. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common watercraft of the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and have been used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon River and in I Corps, in the area assigned to Task Force Clearwater. , with the aim of disrupting arms shipments. In this role, they were frequently involved in firefights with enemy soldiers on boats and on shore, were used to insert and extract Navy SEAL teams, and were employed by the U.S. Army's 458th Transportation Company , known as the 458th Seatigers.

Swift Boats were all-aluminum, 50-foot-long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol coastal areas and later to work inland waterways as part of the brown water marine. to interdict the movement of Vietcong weapons and munitions, transport Vietnamese forces, and insert SEAL teams for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War.

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