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JERRY LEE RUITER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 2, 1947 – November 12, 1966
Service recordJerry Lee Ruiter, of Nunica, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Nunica, Michigan (Ottawa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 65
- ROBERT L SHOCKEYStaff Sergeant · October 5, 1966
- CECIL WALKERCorporal · November 12, 1966
- AARON BLANDINGSergeant · November 13, 1966
- JOHN DAVID BULGERPrivate First Class · November 13, 1966
- EDWARD CARROLASpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- OTIS SYLVESTER FISHERPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 61
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.