"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Ed Rasimus wrote:

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:22:38 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:37:53 -0500, Stephen Harding
wrote:

IIRC, the average age of the Vietnam grunt was quite young

25 WWII
21 Korea
19 Vietnam


Might I direct you to "Stolen Valor" as well. Burkett effectively
debunks the legend of the 19 year old average for Vietnam. He's got
the numbers in print.

Average warrior age in Vietnam was a lot closer to 22.

Is this average over all or just grunts, as I was referring?

I would assume that if you include aviators and specialty
personnel, you'd up the average, even though there wouldn't
be as many of them.

From the same work that Ed cited: "The average age of men killed in
Vietnam
was 22.8 years, or almost twenty-three years old.

I was only counting combat soldiers, like the thread title.

Ed may very well be correct for some different criterion.