How did the United states become involved in the Vietnam War?
The U.S. became involved in the Vietnam War first by sending over Military advisors to help train the South Vietnamese Military in all types of combat operations(example-recon patrols/ air assault operations/ facs air support for ground forces).Then in 1964, North Vietnamese gunboats attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin,President Johnson Ordered the U.S. Navy and the Airforce to strike back at selected targets in North Vietnam. In 1965, President Johnson ordered Army and Marine units into South Vietnam to strike at the enemy in South Vietnam.The U.S. Marines landed in Da-Nang and cleared the area of V.C. .The Armys’ 1st Air Cavalry took the fight to the NVA in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley.This Battle was the first mass use of Helicopters as a way to transport troops & their equipment ,fly the wounded and dead to medical units and fly support using helio gunships.
