Unless corrected by someone, US Sailors conducted WESTPAC cruises, which may have lasted about 6 months on the gunline in Vietnam. Brown Water Navy sailors manning the Swift Boats and other riverine boats performed a regular 12 month tour. The USN was operating two separate navies in the Vietnam War; Regular warships and riverine boats (officially classified as their "Brown Water Navy").
In the beginning for a few years it was only 6 months......later it was extended to 1 year
The Vietnam Era draft carried a six year commitment, that is those drafted served for six years or until the end of the conflict, whichever came first.
!2 months for an Army soldier and 13 months for a US Marine .
See: Statistics about the Vietnam War
Effective December 6, 2000, this allowance is not payable if the officer has received an initial uniform allowance of more than $400 during the current tour of active duty, or within a period of 2 years before entering on that tour.
7 months
The first military advisors were sent to Viet Nam in 1959 and the last one came home in 1973. The normal tour of duty for a soldier sent to Viet Nam was 12 months. Some served multible tours. In some rare cases the tour of duty could be as much as 18 months.
Very very common. But one must be careful when using that word "tour." It might be different in the Marine Corps or Navy or Air Force. In the US Army the first tour was a year (12 months). After that, they were in six month increments. Therefore, if a vet says he did 3 tours with the US Army in Vietnam, then that's only 2 years (12 months for the first tour, plus 6 months for the second tour, then 6 months for his third and last tour). And any man doing over 18 months with the US Army in Vietnam almost certainly had to have re-upped (re-enlisted), and was no longer a draftee.
one year
The tour of duty for a US Marine in Vietnam was thirteen months although a Marine could extend his tour in Vietnam .
ABC Scope - 1964 Vietnam Report Tour of Duty 2-33 was released on: USA: 16 April 1966
See: Statistics about the Vietnam War
During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Forrest was shot in the buttocks.
Oliver Stone
His tour of service from 1968 to 1970 only included the normal tour of duty in Vietnam of 12 months
The show was Nam: Tour Of Duty.
There was China Beach about the Vietnam war that ran between 1988-1991. There was also "Tour of Duty" that ran 1987 - 1990, about at the "tours of duty" of several members of a platoon during the Vietnam War.
The term used for a period of duty in a specific location or assignment is a "tour" (tour of duty).
Andy McNab's Tour of Duty was created in 2008.
The duration of Tour of Duty - TV series - is 3600.0 seconds.