I believe it was the first half of March 1969.
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The Vietnam War 'era' was 1961 to 1975.
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The end of 1969 was the first draft lottery.
the tension between north and south came to a disagreement-north thought they deserved all of Vietnam and war was about to brake out south Vietnam asked America to help Lyndon b Johnson and Kennedy sent trainer to train the armies of the south soon that was not enough to help the southern Vietnamese people so troops were sent Vietnam. If one searches The Vietnam War and finds many start and end dates the reason for that is very simple. There was never an official start date of the war in Vietnam because war was never officially declared. America became very involved with the war in 1960. you check it out on CNN time line its pretty cool and simple find
Nixon extended the draft until all of his men were pulled out of Vietnam in 1973. President Ford got the remaining personnel out in April of '75.