Average age during tour:
Racial percentages:
Draft percentage:
Honorable discharge percentage:
Percentage of service members with at least
a high school education:
Economic status percentages: |
19
88.4 Caucasian or Hispanic
10.6 Black
1 other
25
97
79
76 - lower or middle family income level
75 - family income above poverty level
50 - middle income levels |
|
TOTAL FORCE (1961 - 1975) |
Active duty during Vietnam era:
Served in Vietnam's borders:
Served in southeast Asia and offshore:
Women in Vietnam:
Peak troop strength in Vietnam: |
9,087,000 (9.7 percent of their generation)
2,594,000 (40 to 60 percent exposed to combat)
3,403,100
7,484 (83.5 percent were nurses)
543,482 (April 30, 1969) |
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CASUALTIES |
Hostile deaths:
Nonhostile deaths:
Wounded:
Severely disabled:
Lost limbs:
Married killed men:
Nurses killed:
Draftees killed:
Race percentage of KIA:
Average age of KIA:
Highest state death rate: |
47,378
10,800
303,704
75,000
1,081
17,539
8
17,725 (30.4 percent of KIAs)
86.8 Caucasian or Hispanic
12.1 black
1.1 other
23.11
West Virginia - 84.1 men per 100,000
(national average 58.9) |
|
Sources: DoD & National Archives
Reprinted from the September 2003 issue
American Legion Magazine |
