Explore: Riverine Operations

Special Operations Craft – Riverine is a boat used by the United States Navy to perform short-range insertion and extraction of special operations forces

of Operation Game Warden, and the coastal blockade of Operation Market Time). The Delta presented a classic venue appropriate to riverine operations such

“The Navy’s Riverine force focuses on conducting Maritime Security Operations and Theater Security Cooperation in a riverine area of operations or other

A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in inland waters (rivers, lakes and inland

XXX Corps is known for its ability to conduct mechanized and the riverine operations. Its mission parameters also included preventing the Indian Army's

da Esquadra, FFE), under the Naval Operations Command, in Rio de Janeiro, and Marine Groups and Riverine Operations Battalions, under the Naval Districts

raiding, longer term inland operations, occupation and settlement. They were conducted as sea, coastal, and riverine operations, and sometimes were strategic

S. Navy's Repair Facilities, Mothballing Operations, Submarine Operations, and Riverine Training Operations for both Patrol Craft Fast (PCF—more commonly

top. The three stars represent the three main areas of U.S. Navy riverine operations in Vietnam: Game Warden, Market Time, and Sealords (Southeast Asia

spent with small units and getting experience of raids, ambushes, riverine operations and intelligence gathering with the Central Intelligence Agency.