The navies of USA and South Vietnam according to the Dutch newspaper Amigoe di Curacao dated 1 July 1970

An item reported that the American Secretary of Navy John Chafee announced that the US navy intended to stop in December with her operations in South Vietnam. The resting 125 patrol boats were in the coming period to be handed over to South Vietnam with American sailors just responsible for fitting out and training. The secretary told the press that the navy of South Vietnam numbered at that moment 39,611 men and at the end of the year posses 650 patrol boats. The US navy in Vietnam still numbered 27,000 men, a year ago were that 38,000 men and in 1971 no more as 12,000 men. However, the American 7^th Fleet would station two carriers near the South Vietnamese coast and her ships still be active in international water near South Vietnam.