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The Mobile Riverine Force in the Vietnam War with Erik Villard

The Strategy Bridge

CHAPTER

The History of the MRF

When President Nixon made the decision to begin a gradual trawl, you don't know his Vietnamese-ation. The first unit to be sent home was actually was tubergated in the 1950s. So with it being withdrawn, plus the fact that by the middle of 1969, the situation had gotten a whole lot better for the Allies in the Mekong Delta. Partly through the efforts of the MRF, the Viet Cong grip on the countryside had been much relaxed.

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