US Army combat divisions/brigades/regiments serving in Vietnam:
1. 1st ID (Big Red One)
2. 1st Air Cav Div
3. 4th ID (Ivy Division)
4. 5th ID (Mechanized) (Red Diamond Div/1st Brigade only)
5. 9th ID (Old Reliables)
6. 11th ACR (Blackhorse)
7. 23rd ID (Oregon Task Force Division/aka AMERICAL Div)
8. 25th ID (Tropical Lightning Div)
9. 82nd Airborne Div (All Americans)
10. 101st Airborne Div (Airmobile) (Screaming Eagles)
11. 199th Light Infantry Brigade
12. 173rd Airborne (Brigade)
No. He had resigned from his army commission by 1952. Truman asked him to step down as General of the Army. This is well before Vietnam.
The NVA (North Vietnamese Army, and discounting the Viet Cong guerrilla forces) verses the US Army, US Marine Corps, South Korean Army, South Vietnamese Army, Australian Army, New Zealand Army, and elements of the Thai and Philippine Armies. EDIT North Korean air forces, Chinese elements, and Russian advisers also were involved
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US Draftees were expected to serve two years of active duty, one year in Vietnam, if sent there, and four years in the marine or army active/inactive reserves; six years total.
North Vietnam aided Viet Cong or the National Liberation Front (NLF) in a guerilla war against the anti-communist. The army of the North was called People's Army of Vietnam or North Vietnamese Army.
No. He had resigned from his army commission by 1952. Truman asked him to step down as General of the Army. This is well before Vietnam.
All branches of the US military (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard); Army, Navy, Air Force of Australia; Army of New Zealand; Army of S. Korea; all branches of the military for S. Vietnam; Army elements from Thailand, Philippines. Verses all branches (Army, Navy, and Air Force) of N. Vietnam.
He didn't get drafted because he had a wife and children but he said if he was he would go to the Vietnam war.
America should not require young men to serve in the army
The NVA (North Vietnamese Army, and discounting the Viet Cong guerrilla forces) verses the US Army, US Marine Corps, South Korean Army, South Vietnamese Army, Australian Army, New Zealand Army, and elements of the Thai and Philippine Armies. EDIT North Korean air forces, Chinese elements, and Russian advisers also were involved
It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.It is actually ARVN meaning Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Beginning service when the war was going on is considered Vietnam "Era." A veteran doesn't have to serve "in country" to meet "Era" status.
For North Vietnam or South Vietnam? The North Vietnamese were known simply as the 'North Vietnamese Army' (NVA) to US forces, but their actual title was Vietnam Peoples' Army, as it common practice in Communist states. The South Vietnamese Army was referred to as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
The People's Army of Vietnam, also called the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) was the main army for North Vietnam (communist). However, remember the VPA was not the same group as the Viet Cong.
a member of the army of the republic of Vietnam
Vietnam People's Army was created on 1944-12-22.
No, he served three years in the US Navy - 1959-62. US involvement in Vietnam at that time was limited to a tiny number of troops, nominally acting as advisors to the Vietnamese army.