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MARLIN CURTIS COOK
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 18, 1929 – January 29, 1966
Service recordMarlin Curtis Cook, of Vernon, Alabama, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 106
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 18, 1929
- Home of record
- Vernon, Alabama (Lamar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1966
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 106
- CHARLES JACOB BAIRSpecialist Six · January 29, 1966
- RICHARD DEWAYNE BEARDENPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- EARL FREDERICK BROWNStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
Same unit, same day
- FRANK NEIL BADOLATIStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 105
- EARL FREDERICK BROWNStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 106
- DONALD LUTHER DOTSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 107
- JESSE LEROY HANCOCKSergeant First Class · Panel 4E, Line 109
- GEORGE A HOAGLAND IIIStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 109
- CECIL J HODGSONMaster Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 109
- DONALD JAMES JACOBSENStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 110
- ELMER J REIFSCHNEIDER JRSergeant First Class · Panel 4E, Line 114
- RONALD TERRANCE TERRYStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 116
From Vernon
- BENNIE EDWARD HODGESSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
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.