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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Lee Mullins.

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DANIEL LEE MULLINS

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 21, 1943 – August 31, 1967

Service record

Daniel Lee Mullins, of Pound, Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 75

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander (1204)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
October 21, 1943
Home of record
Pound, Virginia (Wise County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 31, 1967
Age
23
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1967; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 75

From Pound

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.