This was the average age of an American infantryman in the Vietnam War.
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-four
Twenty-two. Based on Combat Area Casualty File, the database which provided names for the Vietnam Memorial, the average infantry soldier was 22.5 years old. The average of all soldiers who served in Vietnam was 23.1 years old.
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