At the time of the Vietnam War their was about 2 million. Now their is roughly 760,000.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
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A total of 58,168 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War!!
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The ethnicities in the US military generally represented the ethnicities of the US population.
They didn't want the military, they didn't want the war, and they weren't welcome, when they came home.
Yes, during WW1 and WW2, there was no conscriprtion (compulsory military service). Soldiers went to war by choice. But in the Vietnam war, conscription was introduce in Australia and the soldiers were forced for the Vietnam war to go and fight.
One foot infection that soldiers in Vietnam suffered from was an infection called trench foot. Also, many soldiers in Vietnam suffered from basic fungal infections on their feet.
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The United States has had a continuous military presence in South Vietnam since the war in 1950.