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ROBERT SAMPSON GEER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 21, 1935 – November 30, 1970
Service recordRobert Sampson Geer, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1970, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 98
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 21, 1935
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1970
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1970; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 98
- RAFAEL ANGEL DIAZSergeant First Class · November 30, 1970
- EUGENE EDWARDSSergeant · November 30, 1970
- FREDERICK LEE FIELDSSpecialist Four · November 30, 1970
- DONALD LEWIS GOLDENStaff Sergeant · November 30, 1970
From Elizabethtown
- JERRY DEAN OLDSAirman First Class · June 5, 1966
- BILLY BROWN KINGSergeant · September 22, 1966
- ALVIN COY KNIGHTCorporal · May 5, 1968
- HUBERT WAYNE MILLERSpecialist Four · October 4, 1968
- THOMAS JACKSON BARNES JRSergeant · July 9, 1969
- TERRY WAYNE DOANSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
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.