is absolute crap, but it was the best we could do.” See Schreadly,
From the Rivers to the Sea: The United States Navy in Vietnam,
85.
4
Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam:
The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954-
1975, trans. by Merle L. Pribbenow (Lawrence Kansas: Univer-
sity Press of Kansas, 2002), 115.
5
Cutler, Brown Water, Black Berets: Costal and Riverine
Warfare in Vietnam, 93.Problems with this maritime paramili-
tary police force were caught up in a larger debate about South
Vietnams initiative to establish a Civil Guard, which the U.S.
considered a private palace guard loyal to the president and not
a legitimate police force.
6
Marolda and Fitzgerald, The United States Navy and the Viet-
nam Conflict: Volume I The Setting of the Stage to 1959, 176.
7
Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam, “Monthly Historical
Summary: June 1966,” Appendix III.
8
Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam:
The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954-
1975, trans. by Merle L. Pribbenow (Lawrence Kansas: Univer-
sity Press of Kansas, 2002), 53
9
Ibid, 456, note 26.
10
Ibid, 116.
11
Ibid, 127.
12
Edward J. Marolda, “Changing Tides,” in Naval Coalition
Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
(New York: Routledge, 2008), 139.
13
U.S. Department of Defense, United States-Vietnam Rela-
tions 1945-1967 Book 2 of 12, IV A. 5, Tab 2 (Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 1971), 55.
14
CDR R.L. Schreadley, USN (Ret.), From the Rivers to the
Sea: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 79-81.
15
John D Sherwood, War in the Shallows, (Washington DC:
Department of the Navy, 2017),
16
Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam, “Monthly Historical
Summary: June 1966,” Appendix III.
17
Schreadley, From the Rivers to the Sea: The United States
Navy in Vietnam, 83.
18
Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam, “Monthly Historical
Summary: April 1966,” memorandum for distribution, May 27,
1966, Appendix IV.
19
Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam, “Monthly Historical
Summary: September 1966,” 16.
20
Victory in Vietnam, 146.
21
Major General William B. Fulton, Riverine Operations,
1966-1969, U.S. Army Series on Vietnam Studies (Washington
D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973), 182.
22
Frank Snepp, Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Sai-
gon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in
Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1977), 19-20.
23
Marolda and Fitzgerald, The United States Navy and the
29
Vietnam Conflict: Volume II From Military Assistance to
Combat 1959-1965, 93.
24
Marolda and Fitzgerald, The United States Navy and the
Vietnam Conflict: Volume II From Military Assistance to
Combat 1959-1965, 93.
25
In 1965-66 the U.S. Army led development of riverine doc-
trine and capabilities in Vietnam, based upon the French Di-
nassult concept. See Major General William B. Fulton, Riverine
Operations, 1966-1969, U.S. Army Series on Vietnam Studies
(Washington D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973), for details
on the River Assault Force.
26
Marolda, Edward J. "The War in Vietnam's Shallows." Naval
History 1, no. 1 (04, 1987): 12.