Just read the Times article by Kate Zernike this morning, was a good article.

However, as a sidenote, I found this statement to be be a bit presumptuous,

“We would like to be remembered as the one operation in Vietnam that succeeded, totally.”


Not to detract from anything that you guys did, but to say you were the only one's to succeed in your operations, is reaching a bit.

As a member of the Mobile Riverine Force, TF117, let me state that we never lost a battle. We did suffer some heavy casualties on numerous occasions, but we always succeeded in the mission. We were noted to have inflicted some of the heaviest losses to the enemy in both men and supplies.

Suffice it to say that we all(TF115,116,117) did our jobs and did it to the best of our abilities.

I salute the brave men of the swiftboats for their Courage, Gallantry and Intrepidity in the face of danger for all they accomplished.

Thank You and Welcome Home Brothers.

Ron Jett
Mobile Riverine Force 1967
T-92-8