On January 27, 1973, President Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Phillip’s reporting date for active duty to start training was August 12, 1974, 19 months after the peace agreement was signed and 17 months after the last troops were pulled out from downrange as the last of the troops bugged out of Vietnam in March 1973. He could not have been downrange as the time line is way out of wac and a rifleman would not have been assigned to that sector area at the time he is claiming or even was available.
rwood
And that’s why he never got the National Defense Medal. He is NOT a Vietnam vet. Supposedly some media has corrected that description. But I haven’t seen anywhere that he ever corrected it.
Kind of my point. The National Defense Service Medal qualification dates are 1 January 1961 to 14 August 1974. It was not given to Reserves (not even Active Reserves. Therefore he would not even be considered a Vietnam ERA Veteran, right? I was in from 1972 to 1976 (Corporal MOS 6682). We were awarded an NDSM out of boot camp. The Reserves in my platoon (2096 in San Diego) did NOT receive them.
Last of COMBAT TROOPS left.