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RONALD MARCEL GOULET
Captain · U.S. Army
January 13, 1946 – September 26, 1969
Service recordRonald Marcel Goulet, of Thompsonville, Connecticut, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Thompsonville, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1969. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 9
- ROBERT LEROY CROSBYLieutenant (junior grade) · September 26, 1969
- NORMAN KERMIT FORKCorporal · September 26, 1969
- MICHAEL DAVID GUNNELSAirman First Class · September 26, 1969
- GREGORY JOHN HUGHESPrivate First Class · September 26, 1969
From Thompsonville
- ANGELO JOSEPH SFERRAZZASpecialist Four · July 11, 1966
- CARL JOHN MARINOPrivate First Class · May 7, 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.