None. Advisers were sent, but there was no large scale draft. It isn't until 1968 the draft really kicks in.
* •25% (648,500) of total forces in country were draftees. * •Draftees accounted for 30.4% (17,725) of combat deaths in Vietnam. * •Total draftees (1965-73) 1,728,344.
Australia called their draftees, "National Servicemen."
it was 18 although most draftees were actually 19
During the Vietnam War, all combatants (including North Vietnam) used draftees except for the New Zealanders, they sent volunteers to South Vietnam.
For the same reasons anti-war sentiment was rampant in the US; the military draft. If the war continued on, those protesters might be the next draftees! 19,000 Australian draftees fought in the Vietnam War. The sooner the war ended, the better the chances were of NOT being inducted into the military.
The Vietnam War was the only US war fought with nearly all draftees verses the using of "reserves." Only token numbers of military reserves were used in the Vietnam War. WW2 and Korea used draftees and reserves.
Many looked at the demographic from which many of the draftees came and felt the poor and minorities were unfairly over-represented.
Healthy young men.
Draftees served their two years for Uncle Sam; one year tour in Vietnam, then went home. Usually going to college on the GI bill.
40,000 men a month in 1968. Be advised, statistics showing "volunteers" are largely draft induced volunteers; an old trick when writing stats.
Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?
Only when men are drafted are they citizen soldiers. Today's professional standing Army are not draftees. Fighting massive wars that requires draftees gave us the "history" of citizen soldiers; US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korean, Vietnam Wars were all fought by draftees (conscripts).