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1.By the time Johnson took office in November 1963, there was 16,700 American military personnel in South Vietnam. How many troops were sent to Vietnam in May 1965? May 3, 1965 – The first U.S. Army combat troops, 3500 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arrive in Vietnam. How many American troops were in Vietnam by the end of 1967?
2.More than 380,000 American troops were in the country, alongside over 730,000 Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers and some 52,000 soldiers from other allied nations. After a year of base building and intensifying combat, the U.S. commander, General William Westmoreland, believed that his forces were ready for major offensives that would seize the battlefield initiative from the PAVN and Viet Cong (VC). The PAVN/VC, however, had been conducting their own buildup, including the infiltration into South Vietnam of regular PAVN divisions. These units, along with VC guerrillas and light infantry formations, were countering the American challenge. Within South Vietnam, the PAVN/VC sought opportunities to inflict American casualties in large and small engagements. They also concentrated troops at various points on South Vietnam's borders
3.U.S. Special Forces Deployment in Vietnam, 15 October 1962. Click for larger image. As the U.S. involvement increased, the Communists responded in 1961 by reorganizing all armed units in the south into the People's Liberation Armed Force (PLAF), with about 15,000 troops.
