Coast Guard Squadron One was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 under the operational control of the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and assigned duties in Operation Market Time. Its formation marked the first time since World War II that Coast Guard personnel were used in a combat environment.
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| - Coast Guard Squadron One was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 under the operational control of the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and assigned duties in Operation Market Time. Its formation marked the first time since World War II that Coast Guard personnel were used in a combat environment.
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| - Cambodia
- Laos
- South China Sea
- Da Nang
- North Vietnam
- Cat Lo
- Phu Quoc Island
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| - Coast Guard Squadron One patch
- Squadron One division locations
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| - Division 12, Da Nang
- Division 13, Cat Lo
- Division 11, Phu Quoc Islandref|The Kelley (2002) reference is divided into several sections with each section starting its page numbering with page 1, therefore footnoting for this reference follows the same pattern|group=Note
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| - Meritorious Unit Commendation
- Presidential Unit Citation
- Navy Unit Commendation
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| - Commander, Naval Forces, Vietnam
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| - Coast Guard Squadron One was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 under the operational control of the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and assigned duties in Operation Market Time. Its formation marked the first time since World War II that Coast Guard personnel were used in a combat environment. The squadron operated divisions in three separate areas during the period of 1965 to 1970. Twenty six Point-class cutters with their crews and a squadron support staff were assigned to the Navy with the mission of interdicting the movement of arms and supplies from the South China Sea into South Vietnam by Viet Cong and North Vietnam junk and trawler operators. The squadron also provided naval gunfire support to nearby friendly units operating along the South Vietnam coastline and assisted the Navy during Operation Sealords. As United States direct involvement in combat operations wound down during 1969, squadron crews began training South Vietnamese Navy (SVN) sailors in the operation and deployment of the cutters. The cutters were later turned over to the South Vietnamese Navy as part of the Vietnamization of the war effort. Turnover of the cutters to South Vietnamese crews began in May 1969 and was completed by August 1970 and Squadron One was disestablished with the decommissioning of the last cutter. The squadron was awarded several unit citations for its service to the Navy and the South Vietnamese government during the six years the unit was active with over 3,000 Coast Guardsmen serving aboard cutters and on the squadron support staff. Six squadron members were killed in action during the time the unit was commissioned. Squadron One, along with Navy and SVN units assigned to the task force that assumed the Market Time mission were successful interdicting seaborne North Vietnamese personnel and equipment from entering South Vietnamese waters. The success of the blockade served to change the dynamics of the Vietnam War, forcing the North Vietnamese to use a more costly and time consuming route down the Ho Chi Minh trail to supply their forces in the south.
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