Extremely large quantities of weaponry were turned over to the ARVN directly from the United States. These types of weaponry consisted of, one million rifles, twelve thousand machine guns, forty thousand grenade launchers, two thousand heavy mortars, and hundreds of planes, ships, helicopters and trucks (Schulzinger 277). The United States also provided numerous amounts of ammunition and training to the ARVN forces. The plan of Vietnamization seemed to be very well developed in its beginning stages, but soon became much more complicated later in the war as Nixon was faced with lots of new challenges.
As soon as President Nixon began withdrawing troops in Vietnam, GIs no longer felt the need to fight. Soldiers no longer wanted to participate in search and destroy missions, seeing that they would be able to return home soon and did not want to be killed in action. The mutinies, also known as combat refusals soon became violent. American soldiers who were disciplined by their commanders retaliated against them. GIs shot and killed their commanders and also ambushed their tents with fragmentation bombs. Lots of soldiers became very depressed and feared that they would never be able to leave Vietnam. The soldiers did not know the order that the government was using to pick which platoons would go home. The field nurses soon saw large amounts of soldiers with self inflicted wounds, those that had committed suicide and suicide attempts, and lots of drug over doses (Schulzinger 279). Drug use was very common as the soldiers refused to go on patrols. Lots of platoons had parties in their bunkers and refused to fight.
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Nixon became aware of the soldier's issues in Vietnam and looked for new ways to try to make peace and end the war with the North Vietnamese forces. The United States, North Vietnam and South Vietnam signed the Paris peace accords on January 27, 1973. The United States agreed to a complete withdrawal of all of its forces by March 27th and a return of all prisoners of war on the same date.