Following the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive of January 1968, President Johnson and his political advisors debated various reserve mobilization plans, as requests for more troops poured in from Saigon. In April, the new Secretary of Defense announced the mobilization of 76 reserve component units.
Nationwide, thirty four Army Guard units with 12,234 personnel reported for active duty in May ‘68. Eight of these units, with 2,729 members, were deployed to Vietnam. An additional 4,311 were sent to the combat zone as fillers.
