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Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the 2004 presidential plan), Swift Watercraft were versatile build "big enough to outrun anything they couldn't outfight" but too small to take care of even a modest sea chop, too loud to sneak through to anyone, and too flimsy to stand up to the mildest of rocket attacks. This made more challenging an already troublesome objective: navigating seaside waters for ships and sampans smuggling contraband to the Viet Cong, disrupting enemy supply lines on the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta, and placing SEALs behind enemy lines. The stories in this booklet cover the Swift Watercraft' early years, which found search-and-inspect operations in Vietnam's seaside waters, and their later years, when the Swift Watercraft' objective shifted to the Mekong Delta's labyrinth of 3,000 a long way of rivers, streams, and canals. That is an intimate, exciting oral history of Swift Watercraft at war in Vietnam.
