"Advisors" is misleading. When did the first military advisors dedicated to advising combat operations is what most are wanting to ask.
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No, he served three years in the US Navy - 1959-62. US involvement in Vietnam at that time was limited to a tiny number of troops, nominally acting as advisors to the Vietnamese army.
The government of South Vietnam requested military advisors from the United States to help train the South Vietnamese army. Ho Chi Minh was a communist and during the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s, the aim of the US government was containment of communist power and not to let it spread. The Eisenhower administration provided South Vietnam with money and military advisors (not officially called troops) to help stop the threat of a North Vietnamese takeover. The United States also was pledged by treaty (SEATO) to aid the member nations in southeast Asia, if they were attacked by a foreign (communist) power.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
Firstly, more than 30,000 Canadian enlisted in US forces and served in Viet Nam.Secondly, Canada was a haven for US draft dodgers. dog
The first US draft was during the US Civil War (1861-1865); the last US draft was during the Vietnam War (1961-1975).