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RALPH BUDDY MULKEY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 12, 1948 – November 25, 1968
Service recordRalph Buddy Mulkey JR, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 25, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 60
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 38W, Line 60
- JOSEPH ALLESSIEStaff Sergeant · November 25, 1968
- RAYMOND BRUCE MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- JOSEPH CASTLEMAN MORRISONColonel · November 25, 1968
- CHARLEY LE MEAR MOUNTPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL LEE MCKECHNIESpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 53
- KENNETH JOHN BRITTSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 55
- LAWRENCE ELLSWORTHSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 57
- JOSEPH VINCENT STACKPrivate First Class · Panel 38W, Line 61
- JACK MICHAEL ZAITZSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 63
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 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.