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RODNEY RENE CHASTANT
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
August 13, 1943 – October 22, 1968
Service recordRodney Rene Chastant, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 22, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 18
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- August 13, 1943
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 18
- DENNIS REED CAINPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- ARTHUR JACK CARLPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- JACK ALVIN CORNSpecialist Five · October 22, 1968
- FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JRCorporal · October 22, 1968
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.