Following the Vũng Rô Bay incident in February 1965 when a North Vietnamese 130 feet long steel-hulled freighter manage to slip through RVNN’s coastal patrols and it took the RVNN (with Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and RVNAF support) over four days to secure the area and seize the ship’s goods, a report on the RVNN found that the Junk Force's personnel were "by and large, illiterate," operating "under the most difficult living conditions and on an extremely austere basis."