How many tours did the average American soldier in Vietnam serve? How long were these tours?

The average American soldier in Vietnam was a draftee who did one tour that was one year long.

The draftees did one tour, then had around 8 months left in the Army after the tour.

If they extended in Vietnam for one more month, they could be discharged as soon as they got back to the states.

Career soldiers did anywhere from 3 to 5 tours in Vietnam.

Currently, the average soldier has one deployment in a 4 year enlistment ( about 20% have two deployments )

The average Marine has two 7 month deployments in a 4 year enlistment.

The average tour assignment in Vietnam was 13 months for the army. I don't know about other services. Most soldiers did their one tour and then got the hell out of the army as soon as possible after that.

Tour length was 12 months. Most did just one. I know plenty of guy's that did more than one. Not sure if they all volunteered or were just sent back after a couple of years.

Billy, of the 2,600,000 that set foot in Viet Nam 650,000 were draftee's. The war was not fought by draftee's. The other 1,100,000 that were drafted did things like a neighbor of mine. He was a rec services guy in Germany.

SSG US Army 73-82

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In October 1966, Secretary of Defense McNamara declared in a lengthy, strongly stated public announcement: ‘We have no intent of changing the 12-month tour of duty….We are equipped to supply the replacements necessary to support it