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 3
Provide the GVN with small craft.
Status: Provide LCVP (Landing Craft, Personnel) to Civil Guard boat platoons.
Forces: MAAG has proposed formation of 17 Civil Guard boat platoons to free Vietnamese naval forces for direct support of Army operations.
Equipment: 8 LCVP for each boat platoon, total of 136 required.
Cost: Approximately $7,000 each - total of $952,000 for 136 LCVP.
Schedule of Execution: LCVP available in Norfolk and San Diego. First one could be available in 5 days, thereafter 20 per month fro, Norfolk. 30 per month from San Diego.
NOTE: LCVP deliveries can be effected fester than the Vietnamese reportedly can be trained to use and maintain them.