History& Heritage

Question 1

Year Boat Guys wore Black Berets

Answer 1

1967

Question 2

Why did Boat Guys start to wear the black berets

Answer 2

To copy the Vietnamese

Question 3

Year SBs authorized to wear SWCC pin

Answer 3

2001

Question 4

Seaman David Ouellet

Answer 4

PBR 124.
Action date 1967
Award date 1968 for jumping on gernade and saving his crew.

Question 5

BM1 James Williams

Answer 5

PBR 105
Action date 1966
Award date 1968
Most decorated enlisted man in Navy
Fought two sampans that led him into more boats where he destroyed 65 enemy vessels.

Called in helo fire

Question 6

What Operation was BM1 williams attactched to

Answer 6

Operation GAME WARDEN

Question 7

What Operation was Seaman Ouellet attached to

Answer 7

Operation Game Warden

Question 8

SWCC Pin and What it Means

Answer 8

1. Cutlass
   Traditional enlisted mans weapon/cut and thrust blade/oversized hand guard-designed for work, primarily used for boarsing hostile craft.
   Boarding crews were all volunteers like us.
2. Flintlock
   Cocked at the ready like us, symboñizes our constant readiness and situational awarness
3. MK-V- fist craft designated as special op craft. On step sumbolizing future and how SWCC leads the way in cutting edge craft tech.

Question 9

Pin of Boat Captain or Small Craft Insignia

Answer 9

3 stars symbolize three TF Ops during Vietnam
OP Market Time TF115 (Littoral OP)
-1965-68 denying coastal area of South Vietnam
OP Game Warden TF116 (RIVERS)
-1965 DENYING Viet Cong access to Mekong Delta with PBRs.
OP SEALORDS TF 194 (Southeast Aisa Lake, Ocean, River, Delta Strategy)
-1968 combination of TF 115-116
81 swift boats
24 WPBs
39 other vessels
Littoral and blue water OP
3,700 man riverine Assault force
258 patrol and minesweeping craft

PBR- premier fightkng craft of its time

Anchor symbolizes Navam service

Question 10

SWIFT craft

Answer 10

50ft 23kt vessel with 50cals and 81mm mortar