The boat was an MK1 River Patrol Boat, or PBR. Wahler is intimately familiar with this type of boat as he was a patrol officer with a PBR unit during the Vietnam War from 1970 to 1971.

I went with my Vietnam vet dad, who was on Navy river patrol boats for his second tour and had a PTSD flashback and panic attack at seeing the Mekong again; there were a lot of older Lao guys with ...

Joseph, who is 79, was a chief petty officer in Vietnam from late 1969 to late 1970. He was in charge of patrols by groups of two to 10 PBR (Patrol Boat, River) patrol boats.

He also needs funding to refurbish the three displayed watercraft — Patrol Craft Fast (also known as Swift boats after the manufacturer), a River Patrol Boat and a Command and Control Boat.

The role of a riverine navy is to transport troops, support infantry, evacuate personnel, patrol waterways, engage enemy forces, and provide supplies to isolated positions. Typically, a riverine navy ...

On the My Tho river, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1968: Seaman and gunner Stephen Artz is silhouetted sitting atop a U.S. Navy patrol boat.

Well before Taylor Swift fans co-opted the term, there was another group of “Swifties” — Navy veterans who operated highly dangerous Swift Boat missions in Vietnam. When someone talks about ...

The two former sailors reunited in Hampton this week with other Navy and Army veterans who patrolled the inland waterways of Vietnam on boats called PBRs, which stands for “patrol boat, river ...

The “PBR” boats, also known as Patrol Boat Riverine, were equipped with two powerful machine guns that Slieter would operate. “I mean, you could mow down trees on the shoreline just like [that].