Suppose you're a US servicemen/official in 1974 with Vietnamese spouse and child. so far as you'd know at that point, how confident can you be that they'd go home with you if the country was to be quickly evacuated of US citizens?

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Lich-Su

You could be sure of it, barring acts outside their control, like someone being captured or lost. Wives and dependents of US servicemen were in the evacuation plan. Even in the Senate's most conservative early evacuation plans they were to be covered. If it was a girlfriend or unofficial wife, then you would have more difficulty, though at the end the rules were disregarded by many and US personnel could evacuate girlfriends or common-law wives.