The average age of the Vietnam Veteran is 68 years old. Is your Senior Living prepared for them? Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in Vietnam, less than 850,000 are estimated to be alive today, with the youngest American Vietnam veteran’s age approximated to be 60 years old.Did you know: Why are Vietnam vets dying so fast? (Reuters Health) – Higher than average death rates among Vietnam War veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that combat trauma may still be affecting veterans’ health even decades after the war, according to a new study.Because of their PTSD, it can be a lot to manage in an Independent Senior Living setting or any other Senior Living setting at that. What steps do you have set up for them to be successful? Have you partnered with a Mental Health professional to provide services on site? Do you have educational support groups? Interested in hearing your pro-active ways to set up your residents and your community for success!
Good grief. Learn math. I’m 65 and was too young to have served in Viet nam. All American troops were gone from Viet nam by march 1973. I was 14 years old at that time. Anyone that is 60 years old now, would have been 9 years old when troops were finally all gone from there.
The youngest American combat soldier of the Vietnam War would have been born in 1954, so 69 years old in 2023. He would not have been drafted. Such a man would have had to have graduated from high school early, or dropped out and immediately joined the military, then after six months of training, be sent directly to Vietnam where he would have caught the absolute final weeks of ground combat in August 1972. After that he could have been stationed in Vietnam where the US was bombing Vietnam back to the stone age in late 1972, he would probably be some kind of a support person in the Air Force, maybe Navy. My father joined the Navy in 1965 at the age of 17. The military consciously waited until he turned 18 in 1966 to send him to Vietnam. He never actually set foot in Vietnam, he served on aircraft carriers off the coast of Vietnam.
Alan Winquist: I left a FSB in Gio Linh (Quang Tri) province on August 5,1971 @ the ripe age of 21. We were a raiding btry. & where at Conthien-Khe Sanh-Lang Vei for operation Lam Son 719 then into the A Shau Valley as the NVA were very active in Quang Tri Prov. We were never did battle with any VC unit's. Many vietnam vets have died here @ home from AGENT ORANGE as we were hosed down with it in Quang Tri Prov. Check the D.O.D. map to see what Im saying!!
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With all due respect, Samantha, the last US combat troops left Vietnam almost exactly 52 years ago.If the average age of Vietnam veterans is 68, then those who went in when the build-up started in 1966 would have on average been 10 years old, and the relatively small number who came out in March 1972 would have been 16!I have seen reports that children as young as 15 served in the war by lying about their age.But the average of those killed-in-action was around 22 or 23.According to theNational Archives, between 1972 and 1974 a total of 828 US service members died from all causes in Vietnam. That's well under 2% of the total American KIA's.In contrast, according to the same source, more than 40,000 died between 1967 and 1969.Our greatest losses occurred in 1968, when a total of16,899 Americans died.There were more than 500,000U.S. forces in Vietnamin 1968, the peak year, which by 1970 had decreased to just under 170,000.Some who served were in their 60s. But if we guesstimate that the average U.S. military person served in Vietnam in 1968, by your data they would have been about 12 years old.I was there in 1968, and I promise you I did not see any 12 -year-old American soldiers or Marines.
I’m 67 and joined in 1974 ended the War in Apr-may 75 Operation Frequent Wind which we were shot at btw. Didn’t know I was a Viet vet for 10 years til I got a letter from some congressional group! So if you don’t understand what happened in 75 google it!
Samantha, I am 70 years old. and was sent to Vietnam at 18, we left august of 72. Two weeks before my 19th birthday. I believe my age group would have been the last to leave. The U.S. war ended january 23 or 27 of 73.
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Who on here who served in the Viet Nam war was a Marine assigned in what was called a Special Assassin's Unit with Jorge ( George) Pizarro, Jr who came back traumatized by death suffering PTSD as well as affects from Agent Orange??? Where did many of you go for Support and help for yourselves and Families???
Also in 1970 8/4 Arty. & 5TH.Mech only got a handfull of replacements from USA but in early 1971 whenever we could get replacement troops ,they came from Germany & were airborne riggers! Al
Fleet Analyst at Washington State Department of Enterprise Services
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The last deployment would have been in 1972. This would make the youngest vet about 72 years old. Bottom line, if you are younger than 72 and claiming to be a Vietnam veteran, then you are most likely an imposter.
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