Original Vietnam War US Navy 1967 OG-107 Jacket Mobile Riverine Force (MRF)
Very nice original US Navy item. Excellent OG-107 jacket in short sleeve and dated 1967. This is 100% original and the typical uniform of the Navy's Mobile Riverine Force (MRF). Each member of the MRF was issued a set us US Army tropical fatigues as their dress uniform, these were issued with the US Navy plate over the left pocket.
The sailor's name plate was removed from over the right pocket, and the stitching can been seen. Similarly, the unit patch was removed from the left sleeve.
In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy. It was modeled after lessons learned by the French experience in the First Indochina War of Dinassaut and had the task of both transport (of soldiers and equipment) and combat. The primary land base was at Đồng Tâm Base Camp, with a floating base which operated in the major rivers of the Mekong Delta. Soldiers and sailors went out in river boats from the floating base to assault the Viet Cong. During part of the 1968-69 period, there were two such mobile bases operating in different parts of the Delta, Mobile Riverine Groups Alpha and Bravo. The MRF played a key role in the Tet Offensive.
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