Over 58,000 US servicemen were killed; over 1,900 MIA/POW, and over 300,000 wounded.
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President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
Approximately 391,000 US Marines served in the Vietnam War; approximately 14,838 US Marines died in Vietnam.
US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
If your question is about the youngest US Servicemen killed in Vietnam; See: Statistics About the Vietnam War (on line); Recommended by the History Channel.