Talk:River monitor

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[edit] Vietnam Conflict River Monitors

I keep seeing references to United States "brown water" Naval vessels in the Vietnam Conflict as monitors in Wikipedia articles. They do not fit the traditional monitor definition by my studies (or more importantly the Wikipedia article on monitors) and I have never seen them referred to as monitors in any published text. Can someone please provide a reference for this idea; otherwise I think it is misleading and ambiguous to compare the vessels. I acknowledge the similar role, but part of what distinguished a monitor were some physical characteristics that these brown water boats didn't have to the best of my knowledge.Zurel Darrillian (talk) 13:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Utterly useless article

Nothing resembling charateristics, numbers built, or even what they were used for. I know off the top of my head more than this article states; That they were used ISO rivierine assaults by US Army infantry both to provide the sodliers with heavy firepower (in place of tanks, which couldn't access the islands were Veit Cong and NVA bases were located) and to land them. (Scource: Book "River Rats", collected essays from Rivine Force memebers in Viet Nam.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.246.120.188 (talk) 22:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)