# Had he lived, JFK would not have withdrawn the US from Viet-Nam **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 28, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749 "2023-07-28T20:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749/49 "2023-07-31T20:36:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **There are many opportunities to travel the world in the Military**. Your first step after Basic Training will most likely be your job training school, followed by travel to your first duty assignment. **You can even volunteer for overseas duty if you want to see more of the world.** You are seriously basing your understanding of how military deployments work on “lies my recruiting officer told me?” Care to explain what any of that has to do with the Commander in Chief ordering 16,000 personnel to MACV? I suppose it at least beats [citing Milton Bradley’s Axis&Allies as the font of all of your strategic knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-regarding-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor/666628/150). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749)._