... of the US government and the military. By 1966, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam confirmed that 419 international media representatives were stationed in Vietnam. The Tet Offensive caused the number of stationed representatives to jump to 637 in 1968.20 The statistics provided by the Saigon briefing were the primary source of material for the majority of the media representatives ... because they were based solely on the Saigon briefings rather than first hand recounts. "Those large quantities of press representatives nevertheless may give a wrong impression. Few saw combat. The...

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... , served in Vietnam. Statistics on civilian women who served in Vietnam are even harder to gather. Another possible reason these women have been ignored is that they were comparatively small number and many Americans simply do not realize that women played an active role in the U.S. war effort. The women that most Americans remember from this era fell into two archetypes ... Women's Army Corps (WACs), but some served in the other branches of the military. There was an even greater number of civilian women than military women who in Vietnam. While an estimated 7,000-12,000 women served in...

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... million men between the ages of 18 and 38 registered for the draft. Segregation was serious. Officials were concerned with training and employing black soldiers. The Defense Department limited the number of blacks to 10.6%. The quota was hard to fill because many blacks were rejected for military service. Two reasons for their rejection were bad health and illiteracy. Diseases could ... ...

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