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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 Roy Waters.

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MICHAEL ROY WATERS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 6, 1949 – June 30, 1970

Service record

Michael Roy Waters, of Millen, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 108

Position of Panel 9W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 6, 1949
Home of record
Millen, Georgia (Jenkins County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1970
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1970; ten of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 108

Same unit, same day

From Millen

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.