Johnson signed Executive Order 11241, which terminated the marriage deferment. Marines and soldiers were regularly engaging in combat against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong.īefore August 26, 1965, those eligible registrants who were married and did not have children would be selected third, after the supply of delinquents, volunteers, and single nonvolunteers had been exhausted as a local board filled its quota. An intensive bombing campaign, Operation Rolling Thunder, began in March 1965, and the first American combat troops arrived in South Vietnam that month. By early 1965, it was evident that the previous limited American military involvement in Vietnam was unsuccessful, and that a full-scale intervention would be needed to save the South from the communists.
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