Vietnam people were recruited for the Vietnam War by god as a way to respect him and get better worshiping power to receive higher profitable gifts such as houses, cows, pigs, money, new life, and more lovely ladies in his life.
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There was a lottery system used to randomly pick a day of the year, and 18 year old men born on that day could then be chosen for the draft. There were also various exemptions that applied, for example, people in poor health would get a medical exemption. The local draft boards were given a certain number of people to draft, to meet the needs of the military, so it wasn't a matter of drafting every single man born on the selected day, they would just draft enough people to meet the quota.
The US was trying to save the Republic of South Vietnam from being conquered by the communist country of NORTH Vietnam.
At the height of the Vietnam War, there were about 500,000 American soldiers in the country at any given time. Over the course of the war, about 2 million served in the nation of Vietnam.
African-Americans during the 1960s called Vietnam "the White Man's War"; because the US wanted to stop communism there, but were drafting African-Americans (and all other US males) to fight it.
Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
The NVA and the VC (North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong).
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
See website: Statistics About the Vietnam War.