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FLOYD BURNETT COATES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 15, 1949 – March 25, 1970
Service recordFloyd Burnett Coates, of Culpeper, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 41
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Culpeper, Virginia (Culpeper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1970; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 41
- KENNETH EUGENE WHITMERSergeant · March 24, 1970
- WALTER EUGENE ANDREWS JRSpecialist Four · March 25, 1970
- ERNEST JAMES BROWNFireman · March 25, 1970
- ROBERT L CHAVEZChief Petty Officer · March 25, 1970
Same unit, same day
- WALTER EUGENE ANDREWS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 12W, Line 41
- JOSEPH WAKEFIELD JRSergeant · Panel 12W, Line 44
From Culpeper
- MICHAEL EDWARD STEWARTLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- JOHN ROBIN VRABELPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- PAUL SILVEY COLVINFirst Lieutenant · August 1, 1967
- EDWARD ODELL SPENCERPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- HENRY THOMAS CURTIS IIPrivate First Class · April 23, 1968
- THOMAS LEE STANLEYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
- CALVIN M MINORPrivate First Class · June 15, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD FINCHAMSpecialist Four · October 10, 1969
- DANIEL LEWIS WOODPrivate First Class · January 14, 1970
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.