@the_vietnam_war3.0: By 1966, the Viet Cong was prosecuting over 1,000 small-scale attacks per month on government posts and isolated villages in the Mekong Delta. The Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) grew out of Westmoreland’s desire to reduce these attacks by destroying main force units operating there. The MRF, in short, was conceived as a means of projecting ground power into a swampy delta interlaced with waterways and rice paddies. Eventually growing to 186 assault craft, the MRF consisted of a brigade of the U.S. Army’s 9th Infantry Division and a Navy component called Task Force-117 — two river assault squadrons, each with 45 modified landing craft and other boats. #vietnamwar #vietnam #History #usnavy #navy #brownwaternavy #vietnamwarrememberance #helicopter #war

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