US Airmen faced SAM's (Surface to Air Missiles) & MIG-17's, MIG-19's, MIG-21's, and AAA fire (Anti-Aircraft Artillery)...then they faced CAPTURE if shot down. ALL pilots and aircrewmen prayed to bail out of their aircraft, when hit, over Thailand or the ocean, where the US Navy could pick them up. US Sailors faced exploding mines placed in the rivers, when patrolling in their Swift Boats, PBR's (Patrol Boat River), Monitors (river battleships), or Alpha boats (ASPB's-Assault Support Patrol Boats). Or machinegun and RPG ambushes as they traversed the waterways, while serving with the US Navy's riverine forces (Brown Water Navy). Armor crewmen (tank crewmen) faced constant land mines (factory built anti-tank land mines from the Soviet Union/Red China), and RPG ambushes. US Army/US Marine infantrymen (grunts) faced everything: land mines, booby traps, snakes, poisonious insects, rats, mosquitos by the billions, high humidity, breaking through thick jungles with or without a machete, small arms fire, friendly air strikes & artillery (no tank to hide in) fire, enemy artillery & mortar fire, enemy sappers crawling into their firebase at night blowing up fuel depots and ammunition dumps, killing artillerymen with small arms fire (killing gun crews), etc.
In America. the American soldiers? No. In Vietnam - the Vietnamese Viet-Cong? Yes.
no? yes they were children were strapped with grenades and would walk up to soldiers and kill themselves and the soldiers.
Soldiers from North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Korea, Australia, and the United States were all effectively trained and prepared for battle in the Vietnam Conflict.
Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
Indiana lost over 1,500 men in the Vietnam War.
In America. the American soldiers? No. In Vietnam - the Vietnamese Viet-Cong? Yes.
The Vietnam War, was no different from past wars (US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, etc). Some marriages survived, some marriages did not.
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.
no
Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in the Vietnam War.
2000 soldiers
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.
Yes, during WW1 and WW2, there was no conscriprtion (compulsory military service). Soldiers went to war by choice. But in the Vietnam war, conscription was introduce in Australia and the soldiers were forced for the Vietnam war to go and fight.