Posted on Dec 30, 2018
U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese
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The South Vietnamese Navy receives 125 U.S. vessels in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. Navy’s four-year role in inland waterway combat. This brings the total number of vessels turned over to the South Vietnamese Navy to 650. About 17,000 Americans remained with the South Vietnamese Navy in shore positions and as advisers aboard South Vietnamese vessels. The transfer of inland waterway combat responsibility was part of President Nixon’s Vietnamization program, in which the war effort was transferred to the South Vietnam so U.S. troops could be withdrawn.
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U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese
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I did not realize we left so much behind. Staggering...and the thought that it ultimately ended up in the enemy's hands is another thing entirely. Morning Mark
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Sgt Vance Bonds
In 2014 and 15, I did about 17 months in Afghanistan, we did the same. Anything the ANA didn't want we gave to any ISAF force that did. All left over, even MRAPs were cut up or burned. We'd been bringing stuff into Theater for so long, we didn't have the logistics to get it all out in a hurry.
I had a connex yard that at one point was so big you could have built a small village in the same area. We'd ship the excesses out and te sea worthy containers would be given back to the companies we leased from or cut up and paid for. We had contractors, Some 3rd ID. 4th sustainment BG, and there h eer lping.
They Afghan Police would paint them and glue mirrors on them to make Police "Jingle Trucks". There might be bells on some of them.....Incinerated Ammo, what we didn't transfer.
In my mind. I'm sure Taliban and Al Qaeda must have got their hands on some.
I see some parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan.
I had a connex yard that at one point was so big you could have built a small village in the same area. We'd ship the excesses out and te sea worthy containers would be given back to the companies we leased from or cut up and paid for. We had contractors, Some 3rd ID. 4th sustainment BG, and there h eer lping.
They Afghan Police would paint them and glue mirrors on them to make Police "Jingle Trucks". There might be bells on some of them.....Incinerated Ammo, what we didn't transfer.
In my mind. I'm sure Taliban and Al Qaeda must have got their hands on some.
I see some parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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LTC Jason Mackay
Maj Marty Hogan we did but didn’t. If you watch the last days in Vietnam documentary, a young Naval Officer, Richard Armitage, was ordered to get the RVN surface combatants out to avoid NVA capture. Ended up being part of the evacuation, then laid up in the Philippines after being reflagged as US vessels.
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I remember this. At the time we pulled out Vietnam had one of the best equipped Navies in Asia.
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SP5 Jerry Mucha
yes and everything else that was needed for the ground forces, vehicles, choppers, weapons and munitions, all left for the South Vietnamese, soon to belong to the north.
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Without our support, most of these vessels fell into disrepair and became junk. We have taken similar actions after every major foreign combat action. Probably driven by the MIC.
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