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The Mobile Riverine Force in the Vietnam War with Erik Villard

Mar 28, 2023

48:18

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Mobile Riverary Force in the Mekong Delta

6min

The Command and Control Scheme of the Mobile Rivering Force

1min

The Navy's Interest in Rewring and Amphibious Operations

4min

The Importance of Maintaining Your Body

3min

The Coronado Operation: A Brief History

4min

The Power of the MRF

2min

The Different Types of Boats That the Americans Used to Operate

3min

The History of the South Vietnamese Marine Corps

3min

10.

The MRF's Coronado Operation in the Mekong Delta

3min

11.

The Mobile Rivering Force's Operation on the Basak River

3min

12.

The Life and Times of the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War

3min

13.

The MRF's Role in Vietnam

4min

14.

The History of the MRF

2min

15.

The Navy's Traditional Role in the Vietnam War

4min

During the Vietnam War, a joint Army and Navy unit known as the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) was established to operate in the maritime environment of the Mekong Delta. In the episode we talk about the Mobile Riverine Force with Erik Villard, the digital military historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and a historian of the Vietnam War. Villard is the author of “Combat Operations: Staying the Course, October 1967 to September 1968.”