Swift Boat Tour of Duty
Serving on Swift Boats was at times a treacherous duty. The crew was made up of six men, an officer and five enlisted. For Coastal Division 13 in 1967 and '68, our patrol area was the coastline, canals, and riverways just a little north of the Mekong Delta all the way to the tip of South Vietnam. We patrolled areas where there were no friendlies, and if we ran into trouble, we were basically on our own for quite some period of time.
This book is about my year in Vietnam on one of these Swift Boats. It includes pictures of boats on duty, some of the scenes of South Vietnam, and excerpts from the Cat Lo base log. I have been in contact with my skipper and shared with him what I have written. He has inserted some things I had missed.
This story is real and is shared to show you some of my experiences during this time. This was part of the ten and a half months before the Tet offensive occurred and my last month and a half after the Tet offensive. My experiences and time were a cakewalk compared to what others experienced during this time and the years that followed.
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Swift Boat Tour of Duty
Serving on Swift Boats was at times a treacherous duty. The crew was made up of six men, an officer and five enlisted. For Coastal Division 13 in 1967 and '68, our patrol area was the coastline, canals, and riverways just a little north of the Mekong Delta all the way to the tip of South Vietnam. We patrolled areas where there were no friendlies, and if we ran into trouble, we were basically on our own for quite some period of time.
This book is about my year in Vietnam on one of these Swift Boats. It includes pictures of boats on duty, some of the scenes of South Vietnam, and excerpts from the Cat Lo base log. I have been in contact with my skipper and shared with him what I have written. He has inserted some things I had missed.
This story is real and is shared to show you some of my experiences during this time. This was part of the ten and a half months before the Tet offensive occurred and my last month and a half after the Tet offensive. My experiences and time were a cakewalk compared to what others experienced during this time and the years that followed.
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Swift Boat Tour of Duty

Swift Boat Tour of Duty

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Swift Boat Tour of Duty

Swift Boat Tour of Duty

by Arian Cerddor

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Overview

Serving on Swift Boats was at times a treacherous duty. The crew was made up of six men, an officer and five enlisted. For Coastal Division 13 in 1967 and '68, our patrol area was the coastline, canals, and riverways just a little north of the Mekong Delta all the way to the tip of South Vietnam. We patrolled areas where there were no friendlies, and if we ran into trouble, we were basically on our own for quite some period of time.
This book is about my year in Vietnam on one of these Swift Boats. It includes pictures of boats on duty, some of the scenes of South Vietnam, and excerpts from the Cat Lo base log. I have been in contact with my skipper and shared with him what I have written. He has inserted some things I had missed.
This story is real and is shared to show you some of my experiences during this time. This was part of the ten and a half months before the Tet offensive occurred and my last month and a half after the Tet offensive. My experiences and time were a cakewalk compared to what others experienced during this time and the years that followed.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158652912
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 10/24/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 138
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

After graduating from Alpine High School in Alpine, Texas, Tim Eichholtz went to college for six months when he decided to join the Navy. He spent one year in Vietnam in the mobile riverine force on Swift Boats and then three years on a destroyer off the coast of South and North Vietnam doing naval gunfire support. After leaving the service, he finished getting his degree in business data processing from Texas A&M University in Kingsville, Texas. While in college he met and married his wife, Patsy.
During a fifty-year career in the oil and gas industry, working in the information technology field, he advanced from being a computer operator to director of information technology, leading three departments—applications development, client services, and SAP data services.
In May 1971, he became a Christian and has served his Lord faithfully. He is a deacon, a Bible study teacher, and a servant of God.
He retired in 2013, and he and his wife live in Tomball, Texas. They have two children and eight grandchildren.
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