The primary objective of the operation was to secure prisoners. One platoon of 720th MP Battalion MPs from A Company were supporting. Their mission was to construct a POW cage at Vũng Tàu, escort and secure POWs from the area of operations to the cage, process POWs, and escort POWs to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam III Corps cage at Biên Hòa. The POW capture rate was below that anticipated.[citation needed] The operation failed and resulted in the deaths of 21 People's Liberation Armed Forces and 7 US Marines.