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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 Rodrick Troup.

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RODRICK TROUP

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 2, 1951 – August 5, 1971

Service record

Rodrick Troup, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 5, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 124

Position of Panel 3W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 2, 1951
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 5, 1971
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date August 5, 1971; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 124

Same unit, same day

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.