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).
1954 A+
If your referring to the Vietnam War, the first U.S military advisors arrived in Vietnam in 1950.
President Eisenhower sent military advisors and maybe some technicians to Vietnam to help the government there stay in power. That was the beginning of US involvement there.
The earliest records of US advisors in Vietnam were from the Kennedy Administration (1960-1963), Kennedy was a strong supporter of the "Domino" Theory and was providing a lot of support to the leader of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, it included US Advisors for training, strategy and maintenance, military aid of equipment, vehicles and weapons and huge amounts of monetary aid as well.
US military advisors were training the ARVNs in April 1956 in Vietnam. There was no "US invasion."
US Military Advisers were in South Vietnam to help the South defend themselves. When that didn't work, US Regulars were sent in. When that didn't work, they vacated the field.
Australia mirrored the US. We sent in US Advisors and Special Forces (Green Beret), the Australians did the same (with their equivalent). When the US escalated, the Australians escalated.
US assistance to France was the precursor and the introduction of Army advisors was the actual point of US entry into the Vietnam War.
1961
Same as US; instruction.
American involvement in Vietnam started with military advisors. The soldiers didn't come until later.it was a habbit of us to interfere in others affairs.
Less than 50,000.