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JOE DON RAMEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 6, 1949 – May 21, 1970
Service recordJoe Don Ramey, of Arroyo Grande, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Arroyo Grande, California (San Luis Obispo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 77
- BRUCE JOSEPH NICHOLSSpecialist Four · May 21, 1970
- JON WILLIAM RICHSergeant · May 21, 1970
- WARREN LEE SCANLAN JRSergeant · May 21, 1970
- JAMES LYNN ABLERSpecialist Four · May 22, 1970
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD HENRY KEITHSpecialist Four · Panel 10W, Line 76
From Arroyo Grande
- DAVID WAYNE DYERLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- DELAINE ARNOLD A CHAP JRSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- LUCIO JON REISSpecialist Four · February 11, 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.