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Air National Guard Units Return to the United States

June 1, 1969 - June 30, 1969

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Insignia of the U.S. Air National Guard.

The last of five Air National Guard (ANG) units in Southeast Asia returns to the United States.

About 2,000 Air National Guardsmen serve in Vietnam, and they fly over 30,000 sorties. Seven are killed in action. Approximately 4,000 additional ANG personnel serve in other locations throughout East Asia.1

John W. Listman, “Remembering the Air Guard in Vietnam,” http://www.ang.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-091124-037.pdf (accessed 4/16/14) (See this source for “seven are killed,” “2,000” and “4,000”; also source notes that the last ANG men left in “Summer”); Joseph B. Speed, “Forgotten Heroes: U.S. ANG Fighter Squadrons of Vietnam,” Research Report submitted to Air Command and Staff College, Air Force University, http://www.ang.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100324-046.pdf (accessed 4/16/14) (See this source for “30,000 sorties”; source notes that the last ANG men left in June (pp. 25, 29); John T. Correll, “Origins of the Total Force,” Air Force Magazine February 2011, p. 96; “ANG Heritage: Missions, Wars, and Operations,” http://www.ang.af.mil/history/heritage.asp (link is external) (accessed 4/16/14).