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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 Michael Robert Seibert.

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MICHAEL ROBERT SEIBERT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 15, 1948 – August 9, 1969

Service record

Michael Robert Seibert, of Parkersburg, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 119

Position of Panel 20W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 15, 1948
Home of record
Parkersburg, Illinois (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 9, 1969
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 119

Same unit, same day

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.