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  2. 19 (song) - Wikipedia

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    Undisputed statistics do not exist, although Southeast Asia Combat Area Casualties Current File (CACCF), the source for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, shows a large number of deaths (38%) were ages 19 or 20. According to the same source, 23 is the average age at time of death (or time of declaration of death). [8]

  3. United States in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The average age of the U.S. troops killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years. [93] According to Dale Kueter, "Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races." Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered some degree of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [92]

  4. Vietnam veteran - Wikipedia

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    The Frederick Hart bronze statue Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 states, "A Vietnam era veteran" is a person who:

  5. Soldiers' stories from Vietnam evoke memories

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    The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973. A total of 395 fallen soldiers were from New Mexico, according to the ...

  6. Vietnam War casualties - Wikipedia

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    Between October 1966 and June 1969, 246,000 soldiers were recruited through Project 100,000, of whom 41% were black; black people only made up about 11% of the population of the US. [102] Of the 27 million draft-age men between 1964 and 1973, 40% were drafted into military service, and only 10% were actually sent to Vietnam.

  7. People's Army of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The PAVN was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference as the Propaganda Unit of the Liberation Army (alternatively translated as the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army, Việt Nam Tuyên truyền Giải phóng Quân) to educate, recruit and mobilise the Vietnamese to create a main force to drive the ...

  8. List of enlistment age by country - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand – 17 (voluntary; soldiers are not deployed in combat before the age of 18) Nicaragua – 18 (voluntary) Niger – 18 (compulsory) Nigeria – 18 (voluntary) North Macedonia – 18 (voluntary) Norway – 17 (voluntary – men), 18 (voluntary – women), 19 (compulsory; conscription age can be lowered to 15 during wartime)

  9. Army of the Republic of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Early unmodified ARVN M113 during the Vietnam War Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near Da Nang, 1968. On 26 October 1955, the military was reorganized by the President Ngô Đình Diệm who declared the republic in the State of Vietnam.