- Title
- Combat, posttraumatic stress disorder and health of Australian Vietnam veteran conscripts and volunteers in the three decades after return
- Creator
- O'Toole, B.; Pierse, K.; Friedrich, B.; Outram, S.; Dadds, M.; Catts, S.
- Relation
- Journal of Military and Veterans' Health Vol. 27, Issue 1, p. 42-57
- Relation
- https://jmvh.org/issue/volume-27-number-1
- Publisher
- Australasian Military Medicine Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam conflict from 1962 until troop withdrawal in 1972, placed Australians into longer periods of risk of contact with an enemy than at any time in Australia’s history since Gallipoli. The Australian Force Vietnam increased in size in 1965 and 1966 and, in conjunction with the troop build-up, the Australian Government introduced conscription for overseas service1 to enhance the previous all-volunteer Army to levels that would sustain the campaign. In the early years of the conflict, National Servicemen (NSM) were used sparingly in Vietnam; however, as the conflict continued, they became indispensable to the Australian effort and eventually constituted approximately 48% of the Australian Force Vietnam. Registering at age 18, being balloted at 20, enlisting in the Army and serving until 22 became the destiny of nearly 64 000 young men of whom more than 19 000 served in Vietnam.
- Subject
- posttraumatic stress disorder; Australian Vietnam veterans; health impacts; army; combat
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447141
- Identifier
- uon:43064
- Identifier
- ISSN:1835-1271
- Language
- eng
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