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Mike
22 November 1999, 15:11
The precedessor of the SBU were the Brown Water Navy using PBR.

Bryant, Jimmy R. Man of the river:
memoir of a brown water sailor in Vietnam, 1968-1969.

Croizat, Victor J. The brown water navy:
the river and coastal war in Indo-China and Vietnam, 1948-1972.

Croizat, Victor J. The brown water navy Vietnam river warfare 1945-1975.

Cullen, Leslie Julian. Brown water admiral:
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. and United States Naval Forces, Vietnam, 1968-1970.

Cutler, Thomas J. Brown water, black berets:
coastal and riverine warfare in Vietnam.

Dunnavent, R. Blake. Sealords:
the riverine interdiction campaign in Vietnam.

Forbes, John. Riverine force.

Freitas, Mark. Stygian myth:
U.S. riverine operations against the guerrilla. NPS.

Fulton, William B. Riverine operations, 1966-1969.
GPO, 1973.

Gregory, Barry. Vietnam coastal and riverine forces handbook.

Huchthausen, Peter A. Echoes of the Mekong.

Mesko, Jim. Riverine:
a pictorial history of the Brown Water War in Vietnam.
Carrollton, Tex.: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1985.

McQuilkin, William C. Operation Sealords:
a front in a frontless war, an analysis of the brown-water navy in Vietnam.
Thesis (M.A.)--U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1997.

Rottman, Gordon L. The Vietnam brown water navy:
riverine and coastal warfare, 1965-69.

Sheppard, Don. Riverine:
a brown-water sailor in the Delta, 1967.

Spangler, David J. What lessons can be drawn from U.S. Riverine operations
during the Vietnam War as the U.S. Navy moves into the twenty-first century?
Thesis (M.M.A.S.)--U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1995.

Wages, Clarence J. Riverine warfare microform:
the need for a brown water navy.
Thesis (M.A.)--Naval War College, 1967.

Wiarda, Jonathan Siqueira. Coastal patrol in Vietnam:
the U.S. Navy at its best.
Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Contemporary History Branch, 1994.

Dominique
23 November 1999, 09:16
You forgot the Boat Support Units.

Mike
24 November 1999, 11:38
Yes, the special boat units were manned by non-qualified blackshoes Navy personnel.
First set up in 1965.