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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Jason Goodman.

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BARRY JASON GOODMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 15, 1944 – February 13, 1967

Service record

Barry Jason Goodman served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 24

Position of Panel 15E 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)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
February 15, 1944

Casualty

Date of death
February 13, 1967
Age
22
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 24

Same unit, same day

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.