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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 Milton William Remmler JR.

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MILTON WILLIAM REMMLER JR

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

July 27, 1948 – May 4, 1969

Service record

Milton William Remmler JR, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 3

Position of Panel 25W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 27, 1948
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1969
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1969; nine of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.