The US Navy did not possess any inland river patrol forces prior to the Vietnam War and had only a handful of coastal patrol boats, despite the lessons of our country\'s past and of other contemporaries.
American advisors noted their operations and by 1968, three naval task.
The South Vietnamese Army and Navy continued the practice.
France, in her ill fated campaign to maintain the Indochina colonies, used the rivers of Southeast Asia extensively to transport and support their military forces.
The US Navy did not possess any inland river patrol forces prior to the Vietnam War and had only a handful of coastal patrol boats, despite the lessons of our country\'s past and of other contemporaries