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Operations - Cedar Falls & Junction City
Art work by
Nam veteran, artist, poet,
performer and author
Charlie Fortner
"I don't see anyone wanting to get back into Vietnam. I see a lot
of people wanting to get out."
President Richard M. Nixon
On the issue
of refugees from Vietnam
11/30/78
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Photo of the 191st AHC
"The Boomerangs" in action
The Geneva Conference of 1954
Participants: USA, USSR, UK, France, People's Republic
of China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (Viet Minh and anti-Communist
delegates)
Agreements
1. Cease fire line established along the 17th Parallel (later DMZ),
with 300 -day "free movement" across line for Vietnamese pro-
and anti-Communist forces. This resulted in the partition of Vietnam
into North and South Vietnam.
North Vietnam:
63,344 sq. miles
22,000,000 population
Capital city: Hanoi
South Vietnam
66,281 sq. miles
19,300,000 population
Capital city: Saigon
2. Free elections to reunite the country in 1956.
3. Viet Minh guerrillas to evacuate Laos and Cambodia.
4. An international Supervisory Commission to enforce
ceasefire; member nations of that committee were: Canada, India and
Poland.
Results: During the 330-day free movement period across the 17th
parallel as many as 900,000 fled the north to go south. No elections
were ever held. The Communist forces did not completely leave Laos or
Cambodia.
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Draft
Classifications
1-A Available for military
service.
1-A-O Conscientious objector available for
non-combatant military service.
1-C Member of the armed forces of the
United States, the Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Public
Health Service.
1-D Member of reserve component or
student taking military training.
1-O Conscientious objector available for
civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health,
safety or interest.
1-S Student deferred by statute (high
school)
1-W Conscientious objector performing
civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health,
safety or interest.
1-Y Registrant available for military
service, but qualified for military service only in the event of war or
national emergency.
II-A Registrant deferred because
of civilian occupation (except
agriculture or activity in study )
II-C Registrant deferred because
of agricultural occupation.
II-S Registrant deferred because
of activity in study.
III-A Registrant with a child or
children; registrant deferred by reason of extreme hardship to
dependents.
IV-A Registrant who has completed service;
sole surviving son.
IV-B Official deferred by law.
IV-C Alien
IV-D Minster of religion or divinity
student.
IV-F Registrant not qualified for any military
service.
V-A Registrant over the age of liability
for military service.
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