Field soldiers in Vietnam were ANY men (soldiers, airmen, marines, etc) living in the field...NOT LIVING in a large base. Sometimes, depending upon how primitive it was, a Firebase could be considered living in the field. But if the Firebase had been established there for a while, and had all the luxuries of a large military base (showers, small PX (called a canteen), night club (called a EM, NCO, or Officers club), heavy maintenance section, armory, etc.) then men stationed there might not be considered as "living in the field"; especially if ambush patrols are being sent out every day and night...those men going on patrol & living in the "field" for days at a time would be living in the field. And the men at the Firebase have evolved into "REMFs" (Rear Echelon M- F-'s), whilst the men outside the perimeter are now men living "in the field."
That's how the big bases like Quang Tri Base Camp, Camp Evans, Camp Eagle, Phu Bai, Pleiku, Tan An, Bien Phuc, Tay Ninh, etc. got started. They began as Firebases then evolved into big army compounds. The hundreds (possibly even closer to a thousand) of firebases scattered thru out the country were truly living in the field, and those small firebases were abandoned after weeks or months, or maybe a few years; they were like "forts in the American frontier in the 1800s." Amounting to nothing but a fortified camp of soldiers with a battery of 6 field guns emplaced within their compound.
WWII men fought the good war. Vietnam returnees were treated as losers.
A total of 58,168 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War!!
49 000 soldiers were sent to fight in the Vietnam war.
The Vietnam war effected soldiers physically with strain of fighting in the jungle but it also effected soldiers psychological mind set. Soldiers were pulled out of school and work at the age of 17 and thrown into the war. The soldiers had to drink and smoke marijuana to deal with the war. It was hard for soldiers to come back for war and make a life.
86%
In America. the American soldiers? No. In Vietnam - the Vietnamese Viet-Cong? Yes.
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Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in the Vietnam War.
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Rejection.
WWII men fought the good war. Vietnam returnees were treated as losers.
What the differences between Iraq war and Vietnam war?
A total of 58,168 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War!!
49 000 soldiers were sent to fight in the Vietnam war.
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