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GREGORY LEE HABETS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 25, 1950 – March 26, 1969
Service recordGregory Lee Habets, of Valier, Montana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 46
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 254 MED DET USARV
- Born
- September 25, 1950
- Home of record
- Valier, Montana (Pondera County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “254 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 46
- LARRY ALAN GILLASPIESpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- WILLIE FRANK GREENCorporal · March 26, 1969
- DENNIS DALE GREERSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- GEVIN PESCOZO PASTORESLance Corporal · March 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CARLOS WILSON RUCKERSpecialist Five · Panel 28W, Line 52
- DOUGLAS EARL STOVERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 28W, Line 53
From Valier
- ALLEN CHARLES ELLSpecialist Four · January 30, 1971
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.