[DUMBGRUNT]

—”What does RVN mean?”

Back in the day, it was the “Republic of Viet Nam”.

As in:
PLEASE MISTER JOHNSON
DROP THAT BOMB
CAUSE I DON’T WANT TO GO
TO VIET NAM!...

Perhaps they are paying by the word and changed to a single word?

[farming pharmer]

Back in the day, it was the “Republic of Viet Nam”.

Thanks and thank you for your service.

I was born in '65, so that was a little before my time.

My dad pulled a low draft number in '64, so he got called up the summer after he graduated high school. He was sick with the flu so they told him to go home and wait to be called up again. They called him up again in '66, but I was born by then so he was deferred(?). I think he would have done well in the military, he's pretty smart and industrious even in his mid 70's.