Sort: Prev Next: You are not authorized to post a reply. U.S. Coast Guard History Program. More than 8,000 United States Coast Guardsmen served in Vietnam. 16 February 1965- A 100-ton North Vietnamese trawler unloading munitions on a beach in South Vietnam's Vung Ro Bay is discovered by a US Army helicopter. Coast Guard In Vietnam. 13 Willard J. Smith: 1 June 1966 : 1 June 1970: Smith was the Commandant of the Coast Guard when the service was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the newly formed Department of Transportation. Their primary mission was patrolling the coast and inland waterways in a variety of cooperative operations with other American service branches. One of the most successful Coast Guard collaborations of the war was Operation Market Time, in which large, USCG high-endurance Owasco-class vessels and…Read … 14 Chester R. Bender: 1 June 1970: 1 June 1974: The Coast Guard … The Vung Ro Incident led to the creation of the OPERATION MARKET TIME coastal surveillance program to combat Communist maritime infiltration of South Vietnam. -General Wallace Greene, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps, 1967. The men who wrote this virtually unknown chapter of Coast Guard aviation history exemplified the highest traditions of Coast Guard Aviation and the United States Coast Guard. I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear. Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG; Vietnamese: Cảnh sát biển Việt Nam, lit. A brief clip from the Military Channel's Coast Guard at War which follows the Coast Guard in Viet Nam.
He assisted the U.S. Navy with operations in Vietnam by supplying crews and cutters for Operation Market Time. Says he saw service on patrol boats with the "Brown Water Navy" and mentions … Author: Messages: ql New Member Posts:3: 25 Jun 2018 11:57 AM: Hello, I'm acquainted with an person who was in the Coast Guard between 1966-1970 and claims service in Vietnam. As indicated in the quote above, the Coast Guard played a vital role in the Vietnam War, but the Service’s combat operations in South East Asia remain unknown unknown or forgotten … 12 Replies. This is the story of those Coast Guard aviators who flew as part of the U.S. Air Force Combat Rescue Forces during the Vietnamese Conflict.
USCG in Vietnam Chronology . Coast Guard Aviation in Vietnam Combat Rescue and Recovery. "I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear." The full dvd can be purchased on Amazon. Last Post 19 Nov 2018 12:56 PM by sardaddy.