and South Vietnamese military were based on a pleasure boat design constructed by Uniflite, a boatyard in Bellingham, Washington, on the northern end of Puget Sound near the Canadian border.Ī River Patrol Boat crewman mans his twin air-cooled. The 11 PBRs delivered in March 1966 and the approximately 300 delivered over the next few years to the U.S. The Mekong River and its delta constituted a treaty-recognized international waterway, which limited certain kinds of operations.
They were authorized to board and search all river craft-except foreign-flagged steel-hull merchant ships, warships and military, police or customs craft, unless specifically authorized by the task force commander. Game Warden units performed harassment and interdiction operations, river patrols and minesweeping operations, especially along the main Saigon shipping channels.
Game Warden forces were charged with disrupting Viet Cong infiltration and resupply operations, destroying VC insurgents in their areas of operation and enforcing South Vietnamese government curfews.
