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Mobile Riverine Force Association · Est. 1992

USS Satyr (ARL-23)

May 1968 – May 1969

  • You could see where it got hit at the side with a rocket. There were two killed and two wounded on it
  • PBR that got shot up with a rocket and machine gun
  • Picking up a landing craft that hit a sampan head on
  • This is our XO on the USS Satyr
  • Patrol boats getting into their squads. Our ship getting ready to move out on the special sea and anchor detail
  • Good look at an alpha boat and its 30 ad 50 caliber machine guns
  • Getting ready to move out on patrol. You could see the machine turrets on the one boat
  • Here’s my drinking buddies–that’s 3.2 beer like drinking embalming fluid
  • Shipmates joking around
  • Take notice of her measurements
  • Boats coming in for repairs and refueling. I hate me
A bunch of tangos or gunboats coming in from a mission
A bunch of tangos or gunboats coming in from a mission