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JACKIE WAYNE TROGLEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
September 20, 1946 – May 24, 1969
Service recordJackie Wayne Troglen, of Sparta, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 24, 1969, in Laos, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 99
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- September 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Sparta, Tennessee (White County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1969. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 99
- RICHARD MARTIN SCHNAKEFirst Lieutenant · May 24, 1969
- CECIL FRANKLIN TAYLORStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1969
- GARY CHESTER TOWLECorporal · May 24, 1969
- STANLEY TURNERSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CECIL FRANKLIN TAYLORStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 99
From Sparta
- THURMAN B SHOCKLEY JRSpecialist Four · January 27, 1966
- SEAN PAUL DODSONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- ALVIN DALE HUTCHINGSPrivate First Class · August 3, 1966
- WILLIAM CORDELL ALLEN JRPrivate · June 24, 1967
- JOHN MICHAEL CASEYCaptain · March 25, 1968
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.