Statistics

War Stats from Vietnam Personnel: Casualties: > __ [|(] __]] []) Ethnic Background : Socioeconomic Status: Winning & Losing: The Aftermath:
 * For the duration of August 5, 1964-March 28, 1973 we had 9,087,000 m[[image:http://www.a-1-6.org/images/platoon2004.jpg height="294" align="right"]] ilitary personal that have served during the Era. Also there was 8,744,000 personnel that are actively on duty during the war. __ [|(] __]][])
 * About 2.6 million soldiers served within the South Vietnam borders. While another 50,000 served between 1960 and 1964 in Vietnam. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * Out of all of the 2.6 million, between 40-60%(1-1.6 million) fought either in combat or provided support and were, and were fairly regular to enemy attack and gore. [|(] [])
 * of the 7,484 women that served, 83.5% of them were nurses. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * At the highest troop strength during the war was on the 30th of april in 1969, which was 543,482 soldiers. __ [|(] __]][])
 * Death from hostiles: 47,359. __ [|(] __]][])
 * Non-hostile deaths: 10,797. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * [[image:tgsthethingstheycarried/Molway_2.jpg align="right"]] West Virginia had the highest death rate at 84.1. The average national death rate in 1970 was 58.9 per 100,000 for males. __([])__
 * 2,338 soldiers went MIA.
 * 114 of the 766 died in captivity. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * 6,140 National Guard's who served; 101 died. __ [|(] __]][])
 * Only 25% of the men who served in the war were drafted, and 30.4%(17,725) accounted for all of the deaths during combat in Vietnam. ([])
 * Of all of the men who served in Vietnam and died, 88.4 were Caucasian, 10.6%(275,000) were black, and 1.0% belonged to other races. __ [|(] __]][])
 * 3,070 (5.2%) of 17,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam died in Vietnam. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * The average age of the men who served (of all races) was 19 and 97% of them were honorable discharged. __ [|(] __]][])__
 * 76% of men the men were from the lower middle/working class. __ [|(] __]][])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">75% had poverty level incomes for their family. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">23% had fathers with technical or professional occupations. __ [|(] __]][])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">79% of the men had a high school education or better. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Out of all of the veterans who saw heavy combat 82% of them strongly believed we lost the war. __ [|(] __]][])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">In 1993 about 75% of the public believe we lost the war as well. [|(]__]]__ __[])__
 * On October 19th 1981, the UN General Assembly reaffirms said that foreign troops need to leave Kampuchea so the people of Khmer can shape their own destiny.
 * On November 13th 1982, over 100,000 veterans of the Vietnam War honored the dead at the memorial in Washington DC.