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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Alan Brileya.

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DAVID ALAN BRILEYA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 10, 1947 – June 11, 1967

Service record

David Alan Brileya, of Vergennes, Vermont, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 86

Position of Panel 21E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 10, 1947
Home of record
Vergennes, Vermont (Addison County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 86

Same unit, same day

From Vergennes

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.