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William Westmoreland requested combat troops after several serious setbacks against South Vietnamese forces. Eventually, there were over 500,000 Americans in Vietnam.
deploy combat troops to vietnam
During The Vietnam War
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They never heard of Vietnam before.
You and the casualy stay engaged in combat if directed or required.
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Anti-tank missiles TOW & SAGGER saw their first combat use in Vietnam in 1972.
John J. Pershing
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
North Africa.