Vietnam Operations
Upon her arrival, she began an extended deployment to the western Pacific Ocean lasting just over eight years, a tour of duty marred by chronic material casualties and frequent repair periods. During the first six years of the deployment, the gunboat served with the Coastal Surveillance Force in Vietnam when not undergoing repairs at such places as Subic Bay, Guam, Camranh Bay, or Vung Tau. During her line periods, she conducted blockade missions—codenamed Operation Market Time—along the South Vietnamese coast in an attempt to interdict the waterborne flow of arms and supplies from North Vietnam to the communist forces operating in South Vietnam. As a secondary mission, the warship provided gunfire support for American and South Vietnamese forces operating ashore.
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