Who has longest tour of duty in Vietnam?

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The most tours of duty in the Vietnam War is 27 by Michael Badnarik. Mr.Badnarik was also the Libertarian Candidate for President in the 2004 election. He had 113 confirmed kills.

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I do not see how this could be true, since Mr. Badnarik was born in 1956.

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Or that a tour in Vietnam was 12 months, and the Vietnam War didn't last 27 years.

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Or that Michael Badnarik was never in the military in the first place.

Answer 2

US Servicemen served in the US Armed Forces for the DURATION during WWII. After WWII, studies were done on combat fatique, along with a host of other experiences from WWII. General Harold K. Johnson, US Army Chief of Staff during the early Vietnam War years had been a POW & survived the Bataan Death March during WWII (against Japan). His experience, combined with post WWII studies showed that the average US Fighting Man "burned out" after 180 days in a "hostile environment." During the Korean War (1950-1953), Congress allowed US Servicemen (draftees) to serve only 24 months of active duty (verses WWII's DURATION of the war). This meant that a drafted serviceman could only serve ONE YEAR in a combat zone, because: When you subtract his induction, training, leave time, and transit time; the government's already used up more than half a year of the draftee's 2 years on active duty. During the Vietnam War, approximately 40,000 men a month were being drafted into the US Military. In order to "feed the beast" of Vietnam, those many men had to be fed into it, in order for the 12 month rotations to work. Because of the 180 day burn out factor, the Army Chief of Staff did not want to lengthen the 12 month tours. The US had a nearly unlimited pool of potential conscripts (draftees), and the general staff and congress wanted to "share the burden" with all potential conscripts by keeping the 12 month tour. Making it a longer tour, would only make it harder on the men in Vietnam while those that WERE NOT serving, could avoid combat.

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For Army and Air Force, 12 months. For Marine Corps and Navy, 13 months. There were changes to these lengths through the course of the war - spanning from 1959 to 1973 when U.S. forces left South Vietnam.

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