Dark Seas | River Rats - Operation Game Warden @DarkDocsSeas | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Following the initial success of Operation Market Time, a joint mission between the US Navy and Coast Guard to patrol the coasts and waterways of South Vietnam from Communist smuggling, the Navy launched the ambitious Operation Game Warden.
Contrary to Market Time, the vessels in this operation were tasked with going deeper into the Mekong Delta and the Rung Sat zone to obliterate the Viet Cong and its supply networks.
Swiftboats armed with mortars, M2 Browning machine guns, and even flamethrowers comprised Task Force 116, which was sent not just to police the rivers of South Vietnam but also to engage the enemy with support from helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
To pull all of this off, the American patrol boats cooperated closely with special operators such as Navy SEALs, MACV-SOG, and CIA agents on infiltration, extraction, and search and rescue operations.
From intense river firefights to shore ambushes, desperate supply operations and scattered Army and Marines outposts, Task Force 116 would tirelessly fight to keep the rivers of South Vietnam safe until the very last days of the war…
Following the initial success of Operation Market Time, a joint mission between the US Navy and Coast Guard to patrol the coasts and waterways of South Vietnam from Communist smuggling, the Navy launched the ambitious Operation Game Warden.
Contrary to Market Time, the vessels in this operation were tasked with going deeper into the Mekong Delta and the Rung Sat zone to obliterate the Viet Cong and its supply networks.
Swiftboats armed with mortars, M2 Browning machine guns, and even flamethrowers comprised Task Force 116, which was sent not just to police the rivers of South Vietnam but also to engage the enemy with support from helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
To pull all of this off, the American patrol boats cooperated closely with special operators such as Navy SEALs, MACV-SOG, and CIA agents on infiltration, extraction, and search and rescue operations.
From intense river firefights to shore ambushes, desperate supply operations and scattered Army and Marines outposts, Task Force 116 would tirelessly fight to keep the rivers of South Vietnam safe until the very last days of the war…
