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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Ira Garcia.

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ROBERT IRA GARCIA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 21, 1950 – October 2, 1970

Service record

Robert Ira Garcia, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 2, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 106

Position of Panel 7W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
August 21, 1950
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 2, 1970
Age
20
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1970; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 106

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.