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MACEY LEE RUCKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 4, 1949 – December 19, 1969
Service recordMacey Lee Rucker, of Rutledge, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 72
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Rutledge, Tennessee (Grainger County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 72
- RICHARD WAGNER FRANK IIWarrant Officer 1 · December 19, 1969
- ROBERT NORMAN NORRISSpecialist Four · December 19, 1969
- RICHARD GARY BUCCILLESpecialist Four · December 20, 1969
- GERALD EUGENE BUTLERPrivate First Class · December 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES BERNARD DRAUT JRCaptain · Panel 15W, Line 71
- RICHARD WAGNER FRANK IIWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 15W, Line 72
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.