In 1965, the Marines were the first of the U. S. Armed Services to deploy large ground combat units to South Vietnam.

But most of these accounts were based on self-reporting by criminals. In total, women Marines in Vietnam normally numbered between eight to 10 enlisted members with one to two officers.
By the end of the year, more than 38,000 Marines made up the in Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) under the command of Major General Lewis W. Walt. He had been there just a few weeks.

Images: Virtual Vietnam Memorial Fund. The records of 78,756 Marines who were wounded or injured in combat in Vietnam were identified.

Assuming KIAs accurately represented age groups serving in Vietnam, the average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam to be 19 years old is a myth, it is actually 22.

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One statistic puts the number of U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam at 536,100, which means a quarter of that would be 134,025. When he was accepted for the Marines, he was just 14 years old.

Vietnam veterans have a lower unemployment rate than the same non-vet age groups.

This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The …

I’ve known a few guys who got there a few weeks short of six months, but not many. A corollary to the prison myth is the belief that substantial numbers of Vietnam veterans are unemployed.

It wasn't until March 1967 that the first woman Marine arrived in Vietnam.

But by the end of 1970, more Marines were leaving than arriving as replacements. Vietnam veterans’ personal income exceeds that of our non-veteran age group by more than 18 percent. 76% of the men sent to Vietnam were from lower middle/working class backgrounds. Fact: Assuming KIAs accurately represented age groups serving in Vietnam, the average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam to be 19 years old is a myth, it is actually 22. This is the second volume in a series of nine chronological histories being prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War.

The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expedition…
But most of these accounts were based on self-reporting by criminals. None of the enlisted grades have an average age of less than 20. Some of the Marines were even drinking beers.

An article on the front page of The New York Times in 1969 explained: “Dan Bullock was born Dec. 21, 1953.When he enlisted in the Marines last Sept. 18, he … Master Sergeant Barbara Dulinsky was the first to arrive in-country and worked at Military Assistance Command, which was headquartered in Saigon. ... Just 15 years old, he would be the youngest American killed in the Vietnam War. [CACF]The average man who fought in World War II was 26 years of age. 1st Class Gary Hall and Marine Lance Cpl.

Although numerous MAAGs operated around the world throughout the 1940s–1970s, the most famous MAAGs were those active in Southeast Asia before and during the Vietnam War.Typically, the personnel of … Danny Marshall, Marine Pvt. Women Marines had a small presence in Vietnam. These individuals accounted for 120,017 battle-related diagnoses of accidents, poisonings and violence. There were a total …

... Once they had finished training the two trainees were split up, and Dan was sent to Vietnam as a rifleman in the 2 nd Platoon of F Company based in Quang Nam Province.

1. Anybody sent into combat with only two weeks of training would last about three minutes (if that) into his first fire fight.

Introduction . Joseph Hargrove. On 14 April 1971, III MAF redeployed to Okinawa, and two months later the last ground troops, the …

During the last battle of the Vietnam War, three U.S. Marines went missing: Marine Pvt.

Marines still conducted aggressive campaigns against the enemy, most notably Colonel Edmund G. Derning's 7th Marines participation in Operation Pickens Forest and Colonel Paul X. Kelley's 1st Marines actions near Da Nang.

And even though most weren't in combat positions they could still have engaged in drug use, AWOL, and desertion. Most of the wounded Marines were young (under the age of 25), junior enlisted infantrymen with one year or less of service.