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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald C Cavinee.

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RONALD C CAVINEE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 30, 1944 – February 26, 1966

Service record

Ronald C Cavinee, of Crooksville, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 79

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 30, 1944
Home of record
Crooksville, Ohio (Perry County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 26, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 79

Same unit, same day

From Crooksville

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.