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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Adrien Manu Jordan-Molero.

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ADRIEN MANU JORDAN-MOLERO

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 9, 1945 – June 28, 1966

Service record

Adrien Manu Jordan-Molero, of Utuado, Puerto Rico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 104

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 9, 1945
Home of record
Utuado, Puerto Rico (Utuado County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Utuado

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.