How many american soldiers died in the Vietnam War?

Question

How many american soldiers died in the Vietnam War?

Answer 1

**** load i feel bad for them **** wars the stupid *** h**l

Answer 2

Hostile deaths: 47,359

Non-hostile deaths: 10,797

Total: 58,156 (including men formerly classified as MIA and Mayaguez casualties).  

(my note: that would have been Marines and Special Air Police Commandos who died while landing on Koh Tang Island off Cambodia while rescuing the crew of the merchant marine ship Mayaguez from Cambodian communist forces just after the end of our formal involvement in Vietnam as a combatant power, during the Ford administration.)

The national average death rate for males in 1970 was 58.9 per 100,000.

WIA: 303,704 - 153,329 required hospitalization, 50,375 who did not.

Severely disabled: 75,000, 23,214 were classified 100% disabled. 5,283 lost limbs, 1,081 sustained multiple amputations. Amputation or crippling wounds to the lower extremities were 300% higher than in WWII and 70% higher than in Korea. Multiple amputations occurred at the rate of 18.4% compared to 5.7% in WWII.

MIA: 2,338

POW: 766, of whom 114 died in captivity.

Draftees vs. volunteers: 25% (648,500) of total forces in country were draftees. (66% of U.S. armed forces members were drafted during WWII)

Draftees accounted for 30.4% (17,725) of combat deaths in Vietnam.

Reservists KIA: 5,977

National Guard: 6,140 served; 101 died.

Ethnic background:

88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian, 10.6% (275,000) were black, 1.0% belonged to other races

86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (including Hispanics)

12.5% (7,241) were black.

1.2% belonged to other races

170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2%) of whom died there.

86.8% of the men who were KIA were Caucasian

12.1% (5,711) were black; 1.1% belonged to other races.

14.6% (1,530) of non-combat deaths were black

34% of blacks who enlisted volunteered for the combat arms.

Overall, blacks suffered 12.5% of the deaths in Vietnam when the percentage of blacks of military age was 13.5% of the population.

Socioeconomic status:

76% of the men sent to Vietnam were from lower middle/working

class backgrounds

75% had family incomes above the poverty level

23% had fathers with professional, managerial, or technical occupations.

79% of the men who served in 'Nam had a high school education or better.

63% of Korean vets had completed high school upon separation from the service)

Winning & Losing:

82% of veterans who saw heavy combat strongly believe the war was lost because of a lack of political will. Nearly 75% of the general public (in 1993) agrees with that.

(Note: So do I.  In the 1972 Tet offensive, the South Vietnamese mostly destroyed the Viet Cong virtually without US help apart from advisors and Special Forces troops.  If we hadn't stopped giving South Vietnam the help Nixon and Kissinger promised them as a part of "Vietnamization," South Vietnam would still be free and a million people who died in concentration camps, at the hands of the Communist secret police or while trying to escape captivity in fishing boats after the Communists rolled into Saigon might still be alive).

Age & Honorable Service:

The average age of the G.I. in 'Nam was 19 (26 for WWII).

97% of Vietnam era vets were honorably discharged.

Pride in Service:

91% of veterans of actual combat and 90% of those who saw heavy combat are proud to have served their country. 66% of Viet vets say they would serve again, if called upon. 87% of the public now holds Viet vets in high esteem.

Helicopter crew deaths accounted for 10% of ALL Vietnam deaths. Helicopter losses during Lam Son 719 (a mere two months) accounted for 10% of all helicopter losses from 1961-1975."

That was more than you asked for, but I think that it's important to air out the truth every now and then, as opposed to the Hollywood/John Kerry version of what happened.  

Vietnam WAS tougher on poor people in general than on people who were better off.  Apart from that, every other thing you've been told by our wonderful, reliable, objective news media about how there was a racial disparity in Vietnam service or Vietnam deaths is c**p.  

So is the pernicious lie that most Vietnam veterans were s***w-ups who came back with PTSD and couldn't lead successful lives afterwards.  You have to wonder where TV producers and reporters get all of this c**p.