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Truman sent the first military advisors to Vietnam in 1950 to assist the French in the first Indochina War not for combat but to oversee the use of the $10 millions of equipment.
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Ngo Dinh Diem was murdered by the coup that was funded by the US and further took the US into the involvement in Vietnam.
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The incident in the gulf was a attack from the NVA which was provoked by the US who was attacking some of their bases along the coastline and the US said the NVA attacked them 2 times which is a lie
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Was a bill allowing Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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3,500 Marines came ashore at Da Nang the first wave of combat troops to sent to Vietnam adding to the already 25,000 military advisors.