[ Click on Any Image to Enlarge ]
Alpha 91-1
CCB-91-1
Tango 112-10
BID Patrol (Base Interior Defense) meant periodically throwing concussion grenades to protect the Mobile Riverine Base ships from enemy swimmers (sappers) attaching command or time detonated mines to the hulls. This was a necessary, but pretty boring duty assignment for those who tossed the grenades. Photo courtesy of member Dewey Pollock.
APL-30 going up river from Cat Lo to My Tho, 25 Sep 68 towed by two YTB's with call signs Foxtrot and Sierra. Photo courtesy of Nick Mitschkowetz.
John Harris and Nick Mitschkowetz installing awning on APL-30 in Sept. 1968 at Cat Lo before transit up river. Nick reports that sand bags were later added around the M60 and that area became the bridge.
Thanks to Gary Oliver for this great composite of the USS Askari ARL-30
HM1 (Doc) Rihimaki re-enlisting while at General Quarters transiting Rocket Alley aboard the USS Hampshire County
Communism has brought huge advances in the trucking industry in Vietnam. Thanks Larry Dunn for this photo which is making it's rounds on the internet.
Thanks to member Jim Dickson for this shot of a film clip featuring an insertion of SEAL Team One, Detachment Golf, aboard a mike boat out of Nha Be in 1966.
Thanks to Michael Brophy for this aerial shot of Cam Rahn Bay and the shot of PCF's 44, 42 and 51 heading out for patrol from CRB around early 1967.
Thanks to Dave Harrington for this shot of 2nd Platoon, Co. A, 3rd/47th at base camp east of Ben Tre, October/November 1968.
Thanks to Jim Dickson for this picture of PBR's tied up to the pier in Nha Be in 1966. The boats in the background are Vietnamese RAGs 22 & 28. CDR Wandres, for whom Jim also worked, was their advisor.