For US Airmen, US Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, it may have been different. But for US Soldiers it was a one year tour of duty. Second and third tours were in six month increments. So, for a GI (US soldier) three tours meant 2 yrs.
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The Vietnam War 'era' was 1961 to 1975.
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College students and mentally/physically unfit men are usually deferred from military service.
No! You had to be "In country" or fly over on a mission or in the direct waters off the coast.