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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 Gregory Arnold Rindy.

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GREGORY ARNOLD RINDY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 11, 1948 – May 12, 1968

Service record

Gregory Arnold Rindy, of Roseville, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 59E · Line 11

Position of Panel 59E 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)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 11, 1948
Home of record
Roseville, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1968
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 59E, Line 11

Same unit, same day

From Roseville

All 25 names from Roseville →

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.