I cannot help but think
That the US had a bunch of bombs reaching their shelf life. A bunch of officers without a combat badge. New tax dollars that needed spending. Ike was right on this one.
I recently came across a cassette tape my father made while he was serving in Vietnam. I have not listened to it, yet. Need to set up a digital recording, it's so old it may only have a single play left on it before it gets sucked into the capstan.