How many enlisted soldiers that went to Viet Nam volunteered for another tour of duty?
Thanks for the outstanding answers all. The Mark Wilkerson court martial made me wonder how many men(or women) would voluntarily return to war after serving one tour of duty.
The volunteer rate for duty in Viet Nam remained the same , within 3% points average 24%, throughout conflict.The rate of volunteer for duty was the same for lower enlisted men as for combat officers.
Non combat arms actaully was very much higer in 1st tour volunteers of senior NCO's and higher comissined officers.
Great way to get rank and especially for those who were nearing reetirment time.
Much higher pay than in states and for the vast majority, more so today than then, it was as easy a duty as one could get while in service.
For the single guy who never got any to the married guy who found he could get all he wanted, for a fee of course and sometimes a very litle fee, 10cents when I first went there, pack of smokes, pkg C-rats and then all the mommys boys during the build up started paying 20 bucks and more.
Millions of american GIs never heard a shot fired in anger in one tour.
Special forces had a very high rate of return volunteers, and then the lifers startted to get in and ruined it. then the Montgnard rebellion when US special forces had to let the yards sink or die changed many a mans mind on who was the good guy in that war.
Yes it was a good war, a mans war, if not in regular grunt humping a ruck day aftrer day moments of chaos and rest of sweat, but helping indigenous peoples and your counter plans manoymano BS and not just slaughteing innocent villagers by air and arty or for the hell of it of regular grunts.
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