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RICKY FAY COSSEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 2, 1947 – December 18, 1968
Service recordRicky Fay Cossey, of Cadiz, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 39
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Cadiz, Kentucky (Trigg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 39
- ROGER ALLEN BROWNCorporal · December 18, 1968
- NORMAN HARVEY CLARKSpecialist Four · December 18, 1968
- MANCOL RAYMOND CLIFTONSergeant · December 18, 1968
- CHARLES MARION DUMDEIPrivate First Class · December 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NORMAN HARVEY CLARKSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 39
- CHARLES MARION DUMDEIPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 39
- RONALD LEE HOVISPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 40
From Cadiz
- JIMMY FLOYD BORENPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- BUCKNER CRUMP JRPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
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.