Motorists traveling along Highway 37 from the Vallejo / Fairfield areas to the Bay Area, which passes through Mare Island, could often view US Navy Swift Boats ( PCF-Patrol Craft Fast ) and PBRs ( Patrol Boat River ), among other riverine type boats, maneuvering through the sloughs of what is now the Napa-Sonoma State Wildlife Area, which borders the north and west portions of Mare Island.

Swift Boat Down-The Real Story of the Sinking of PCF-19.

" Later Phillips produced Lie Detector as a series for PAX / ION — some of the guests included Paula Jones, Reverend Paul Crouch accuser Lonny Ford, Ben Rowling, Jeff Gannon and Swift Boat Vet, Steve Garner.

Roy F. Hoffmann, Chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, owns a home in Chesterfield County.

At 14: 18, a Khmer Rouge naval forces " Swift Boat " was sighted approaching the Mayaguez.

* Patrol Craft Fast, a all-aluminum riverine boat used by the US Navy's Brown Water Navy during the Vietnam War, commonly known as a Swift Boat

On February 25, 1969, he led a Swift Boat raid on the isolated peasant village of Thanh Phong, Vietnam, targeting a Viet Cong leader that intelligence suggested would be present.

These organizations have been established on both sides of the political aisle, and have included high profile organizations such as the Media Fund and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was fined $ 299, 500 ; the League of Conservation Voters was fined $ 180, 000 ; MoveOn. org was fined $ 150, 000.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Daniels said that having never served in the military himself, he did not have the right to criticize John Kerry's service record, but that Kerry should allow the release of his official military record to establish the truth or falsehood of allegations from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Fox's appointment had been thwarted in Congress because he had donated $ 50, 000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign, a group whose advertisements many Democrats blamed for John Kerry's loss.

Swift Boats ( Patrol Craft Fast-PCF ), and PBRs ( Patrol Boat River ) conducted boat operations throughout the currently named Napa-Sonoma Marshes State Wildlife Area, on the north and west portions of Mare Island.

* Steffes, James, ENC Retired: Swift Boat Down-The Real Story of the Sinking of PCF-19.

Rassman gained national prominence during the 2004 Presidential election when he publicly denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's campaign against Kerry.

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta.

This account is disputed by three participants who identified themselves as members of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization opposed to Kerry's Presidential candidacy.

Rassman continued to challenge the Swift Boat Veterans ' account of events throughout the campaign.

In August 2004 he and former Senator Max Cleland, along with several other veterans and members of the U. S. Senate, attempted to hand-deliver a letter to President George W. Bush, requesting that he condemn the Swift Boat group's TV ads.

Early in the 2004 presidential election campaign an organization known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was established to challenge John Kerry's bid for the presidency.

In August 2004, following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had exaggerated his record during the Vietnam War, Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were " legitimate questions " over whether Kerry's wounds were " self-inflicted.

Examples of 527s include American Crossroads, American Solutions for Winning the Future, EMILY's List, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Texans for Truth, The Media Fund, America Coming Together, the Progress for America Voter Fund, Secretary of State Project, United American Technologies, American Right To Life Action and the November Fund.

One organization, Swift Boat " torpedoed " Massachusetts Democratic Party ( United States ) John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004.

* On August 20, 2004, John Kerry's campaign accused Swift Boat Veterans for Truth of coordinating their efforts with the George W. Bush campaign.

In 2006 and 2007 the FEC fined a number of organizations, including MoveOn and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, for violations arising from the 2004 campaign.

A memorable example are the Swift Boat Veterans who criticized John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential campaign.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U. S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.

* September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces.

* August 5 – An advocacy group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth debuts an ad calling into question John Kerry's account of how he earned his Purple Heart medals in Vietnam.

* John O ' Neill ( Vietnam veteran ) ( born 1946 ), opponent of John Kerry and a leader of the groups Swift Vets and POWs for Truth

* Attacks against George W. Bush's military record in the 2004 presidential election, and attacks against John Kerry's Vietnam service record by some Navy Swift Boat veterans of the Vietnam War.

Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ( SBVT ), was a political group ( 527 group ) of United States Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency.

SBVT stated that " Kerry's phony war crimes charges, his exaggerated claims about his own service in Vietnam, and his deliberate misrepresentation of the nature and effectiveness of Swift boat operations compel us to step forward.

Membership was initially limited to veterans of the Vietnam War who at some point served in a Swift boat unit, as did Kerry.

Of the 3, 500 Swift boat sailors who served in Vietnam, the names of some 250 appeared on the group's statement against Kerry ; most did not serve at the same time or in the same place as Kerry.

Swift Boat PCF71 in Vietnam, showing forward twin. 50 caliber ( 12. 7 mm ) machine guns directed upward in their secured position.

Four Swift Boats in Vietnam, showing rear. 50 caliber ( 12. 7 mm ) machine gun and grenade launcher mount.

Patrol Craft Fast ( PCF ), also known as Swift Boats, were all-aluminum, long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the U. S. Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the Brown Water Navy to interdict Vietcong movement of arms and munitions, transport Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for counterinsurgency ( COIN ) operations during the Vietnam War.

The Swift Boat was conceived in a Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command Vietnam ( NAVADGRP MACV ) staff study titled " Naval Craft Requirements in a Counter Insurgency Environment ," published 1 February 1965.

The original training base for Swift Boats had been at the Naval Base in Coronado, California, and in 1969 moved to Mare Island near San Pablo Bay, California where it remained throughout the Vietnam war.

These limitations, plus the difficulties being encountered in the interior waterways by the smaller, more lightly armed PBRs led to the incorporation of Swift boats to patrol the 1, 500 miles of interior waterways of Vietnam.

Swift boats continued to operate along the Vietnamese coastal areas, but their primary area of operations soon centered upon the Mekong Delta area in the southern tip of Vietnam.

Ex-US Navy Vietnam veterans, from the Swift Boat Sailors ' Association ( SBSA ), visited Malta in 2010 and said the Malta Swifts were the last two still in service, out of hundreds that were built.

U. S. Senator John Kerry served aboard Swift Boats for approximately four of the 16 months he served in Vietnam.

In an article in the New York Times on June 30, 2008, Swift Boat veterans objected to the prevalent use of the verb " swiftboating " as this type of ad hominem attack, stating that it is disrespectful to the men who served and died on the PCFs during Vietnam.