Non- Combat Veterans.

I said my "i do's" in 1973, so that was at the end of the Viet Nam crisis, and after tech school, was sent to Germany, too.
But, i put in for an European stationing, so low and behold, the Air Force gave me one. lol
I wouldn't give it any second thoughts, not being "combat veteran"
You went where they put ya.

Let me ad to this if i may.
I talk to lots of guys that served during all the bad years during the Viet Nam war.
Lots of them, draftees, or enlisted, were sent to Germany, other than South East Asia, (Vietnam) for reasons that the big shot generals made decisions about.