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ROGER LYNN TEETER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 27, 1946 – December 28, 1970
Service recordRoger Lynn Teeter, of Salisbury, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1970, in Laos, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 13
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Salisbury, North Carolina (Rowan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1970. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
Also on Panel 5W, Line 13
- FREDRICK KEITH BRANDTSergeant · December 28, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE GRIFFINCorporal · December 28, 1970
- JAMES LEONARD SMITHCaptain · December 28, 1970
- ROBERT JOHN CURTISSergeant First Class · December 29, 1970
From Salisbury
- ROBERT MAXWELL BROWN JRPrivate First Class · December 12, 1965
- EDWIN EVERTON MORGANChief Master Sergeant · March 13, 1966
- SCOTT TERRY WELBORNEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1966
- RONALD WAYNE LYERLYPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- KAY WILLIAM WRIGHTCorporal · July 4, 1967
- FRANCIS EDWARD HOWELance Corporal · July 16, 1967
- DONALD VANCE DAVISLieutenant Commander · July 25, 1967
- DOUGLAS RAY NOELPrivate First Class · July 31, 1967
- GEORGE FRANKLIN ANTONITISCorporal · December 3, 1967
- DANIEL GUESTChief Petty Officer · August 29, 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.