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LEAGRANT BADGETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 12, 1936 – September 21, 1971
Service recordLeagrant Badgett, of Piedmont, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1971, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 22
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Nuclear Weapons Specialist (55G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 12, 1936
- Home of record
- Piedmont, Alabama (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1971
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1971; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2W, Line 22
- CHARLES HENRY GOLDBINPetty Officer Second Class · September 20, 1971
- JOSEPH BYRON POEFirst Lieutenant · September 20, 1971
- RANDALL BRUCE BERNARDSpecialist Four · September 21, 1971
- DUDLEY FRANCIS BRADBERRYMaster Chief Petty Officer · September 21, 1971
From Piedmont
- MARVIN KENNY PENLANDPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- JACK RAY LOCKRIDGESergeant · January 31, 1968
- JOSEPH HILLMAN IIIFirst Lieutenant · July 22, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE LEDBETTERPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- JEAN WAYNE PUCKETTPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
- VERNON GLEN HOLBROOKSergeant First Class · November 10, 1969
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.