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English: Navy SEAL team members landing from a River Division (part of Task Force 116) Assault Support Patrol Boat (ASPB) on the Rach Thom Rach Mo Cay canal system in Kien Hoa Province 50 miles south of Saigon. They raided a Vietcong base, destroying an estimated 40 to 50 bunkers and numerous camp structures, including a propaganda center and two tax collection stations, and detained 51 Vietcong suspects. SEALs leaping from the bow carries a shotgun; next two SEALs have M-16 rifles; SEALs by tire fender has a Stoner 63A1 machine gun with drum magazine; SEAL at right has an M-16 rifle with a 30 round magazine and a XM148 grenade launcher mounted under the barrel. The Assault Support Patrol Boat (ASPB) has a pair of Honeywell Mark 18 40mm grenade launchers mounted on deck in front of the superstructure and two 20mm cannon in turrets. Note the variety of uniforms, some in camouflage patterns. Man in beret by forward gun turret is "Archie" Grayson.
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Source https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/USN-1130000/USN-1130332.html
Author National Archives USN 1130332 photographer, Journalist First Class Tom Walton

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Navy SEAL team members landing from a River Division (Task Force 116), Assault Support Patrol Boat (ASPB) on the Rach Thom Rach Mo Cay canal system

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25 January 1968

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