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As U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam increased, more young men were drafted for service there, and many of those still at home sought means of avoiding the draft. Since only 15,000 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were sent to South Vietnam, enlistment in the Guard or the Reserves became a popular means of avoiding serving in a war zone.
59 American women who served as civilians (including nurses) in Vietnam were also killed and died in that war. [102] 4 were POWs. [102] In 1962 Eleanor Ardel Vietti became America’s first woman POW in Vietnam. [108] She is currently the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. [109] [110]
The protest against being drafted into the US army during the Vietnam War was a central element of the wider anti-war movement that gained momentum in the 1960s. Many young Americans, especially students, rejected the war as immoral and unnecessary. The draft was perceived as an unjust coercive measure that particularly affected disadvantaged ...
More than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam, and 11,000 actually served in Vietnam, per the VA. Of those 11,000 women, 90% were nurses like Frankie. Of those 11,000 women, 90% ...
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
The Vietnam War draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service in the US since 1942, and established the ...
“We watched 400 Vietnam documentaries, and some are amazing — the Ken Burns series is incredible — but we didn’t think we’d seen any that first and foremost really got you inside the ...
The most recent draft was in 1973 during the Vietnam War. USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the Facebook post for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Our rating: False