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Six men. Fifty-foot aluminum boat. Six months patrolling the deadliest rivers in Vietnam.

Engineman Second Class Michael Rodriguez served aboard PCF-43, a Swift Boat operating in the Mekong Delta from March to September 1968. This is his complete story of conducting combat patrols in waters where every bend could hide an ambush, every sampan could be carrying weapons, and aluminum hulls offered no protection against AK-47 fire and RPGs.

Experience the March 16th ambush that destroyed their stern gun mount, the night they detected mines seconds before disaster, the SEAL insertion that required extraction under fire, and the rescue of PCF-38's survivors after a mine sank their boat. This is the hidden war on Vietnam's brown water—the Brown Water Navy, the River Rats, and the Swift Boat crews who fought battles most Americans never knew existed.

Over 800 Brown Water Navy sailors were killed in Vietnam. This is their story.

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