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On March 8, 1965, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, committed the first combat troops to Vietnam and greatly escalated U.S. involvement, with forces reaching 184,000 that year and 536,000 in 1968.
On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched to South Vietnam.
