"Rare brown river Navy photos." Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2020 10:12 p.m. PST |
Nice pics here… link
Hope you enjoy!
Amicalement
Armand |
| Joe Legan | 30 Oct 2020 5:57 a.m. PST |
great photos. very interesting part of the war thanks Joe |
| Choctaw | 30 Oct 2020 6:55 a.m. PST |
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| William Warner | 30 Oct 2020 10:38 a.m. PST |
There but for the grace of God go I. In 1968 I graduated from USN radioman school. The orders for our class trickled in until only two of us were left. Our orders arrived on the same day: I went to a submarine rescue ship in Pearl Harbor and he went to a swift boat squadron in Vietnam. I guess I threw double sixes and he threw double ones. |
 deadhead  | 30 Oct 2020 1:21 p.m. PST |
So you trained to dive to depths where your vessel could have been crushed like an eggshell, if it had done so the atmosphere inside would instantly ignite and the only rescue vessel if you got into trouble was….err you? Sounds scary to me, indeed anything involving water deeper than 4ft is scary to me. Often wondered, how did the Brown Water Navy crews actually do? I imagine the "Apocalypse Now" type PBR crews took high casualty rates. But the heavy duty stuff, the armoured barges basically with the massive plating on the sides and turrets must have been (almost) impervious. |
| William Warner | 30 Oct 2020 8:11 p.m. PST |
The only real danger was going bar-hopping in the Philippines and getting mugged. The guys who went down in the rescue bell were way above my pay grade. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 30 Oct 2020 8:30 p.m. PST |
Thanks for posting the link. |
| Tango01 | 31 Oct 2020 12:44 p.m. PST |
No mention my good friend!.
Amicalement
Armand
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