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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kish Lemont Green.

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KISH LEMONT GREEN

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

February 15, 1948 – June 15, 1969

Service record

Kish Lemont Green, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 52

Position of Panel 22W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 15, 1948
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 15, 1969
Age
21
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1969; three of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 52

Same unit, same day

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.