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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
14 November 1961
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Paragraph 2(c). Appendix 4
Provide the GVN with Small Craft.
Status: Expedite GVN Junk Patrol Force Program
| Forces: | 20 sailing junks; 63 motor junks are planned. |
| 80 sailing junks now operational in Tourane area. | |
| 1 motor junk undergoing design modifications. | |
| Sailing junks have crew of 5, motor junks crew of 7. | |
| 300 personnel now in training. |
| Equipment: | 60 H.P. Japanese diesels in motor junks; eventually 10 H.P. diesles in the sailing junks. Sailing junks are procured from indigenous commercial sources. Motor junks prototype being built and modified at Saigon Naval Shipyard. |
| Navy is dependent on Vietnamese Army sources for communications equipment, small arms and certain other required equipage. Considerable difficulty experienced in filling these requirements. |
| Costs: | $800 for each sailing junk. |
| Cost data not yet available for motor junk. | |
| Commander, Vietnamese Navy, has stated that he has been promised or provided sufficient funds from the GVN piastre budget for the entire junk force. | |
| Approximately $18,000 per junk division (20 sailing, 3 motor junks) for the communications gear, small arms, etc. mentioned above in "Costs." |
Schedule of Execution: 60 more sailing junks due to be operational by end of 1961. Motor junk prototype due for second sea trials in November 1961.
Entire program scheduled for completion in 1963. Program is to be expedited but to what degree is currently unknown.
Accelerated procurement has a direct relationship to recruitment and training of the junk force personnel. The training cycle is approximately three (3) months and is conducted orally in South Vietnamese due to the illiteracy problem.
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