You can even ask your doctor to set your first fitness goal, since he or she knows your body best. An early milestone may simply be walking to the mailbox, walking a quarter of a mile, walking for five minutes or walking for 15 minutes.
The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the DCAS contains 27 more records than the Combat Area Casualties Current File as of December 1998, which contains 58,193 records. Additionally, there are some changes to the fields between the two files, most notably in the respective date-of-death fields.
In the Vietnam war, we mobilized 8.7 million soldiers (over half of the number from WW2, to occupy an area that was vastly smaller than either operational theater). 58k were killed, 1/6 of these deaths were not from battle. Another 303 k were wounded. Your odds of going home physically unscarred were about 96%.