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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 Roger Lee Glei.

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ROGER LEE GLEI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 12, 1948 – July 15, 1969

Service record

Roger Lee Glei served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21W · Line 125

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 12, 1948

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1969
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1969; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 21W, Line 125

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.