Mobile Riverine Force Becomes Operational

June 1, 1967

Overview

Task Force 117, the Mobile Riverine Force, becomes operational. It is a joint U.S. Army-Navy task force whose goal is to search out and eliminate Viet Cong elements along the Mekong Delta’s many waterways. During operations, Navy gunboats and landing craft offload Army infantry units in amphibious assaults on enemy positions in the delta. The task force is disestablished in 1969.¹

¹Graham A. Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962–1967, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2006), 312–13; George L. MacGarrigle, Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, 1966–1967, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1998), 401, 411–14; Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 764–65.