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ROBERT LEE REIPLINGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 20, 1948 – October 22, 1969
Service recordRobert Lee Reiplinger, of Schererville, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 106
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Schererville, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 106
- BILLY LEE PETERSSpecialist Five · October 22, 1969
- HARVEY CLAUDE REYNOLDSStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1969
- JOSE TOMAS RIOSSergeant · October 22, 1969
- TIMOTHY CHARLES ROBINSONPrivate First Class · October 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOSE TOMAS RIOSSergeant · Panel 17W, Line 106
From Schererville
- STEVEN JOSEPH FOYLance Corporal · December 19, 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.