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ROY RODRIGUEZ SALINAS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1940 – January 16, 1971
Service recordRoy Rodriguez Salinas, of Edinburg, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 16, 1971, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 50
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Edinburg, Texas (Hidalgo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 16, 1971
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 16, 1971; six of them were lost in Chau Doc Province. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 5W, Line 50
- TERRY FRANCIS MEZERAWarrant Officer 1 · January 16, 1971
- EARL NELSONStaff Sergeant · January 16, 1971
- REINALDO REIN RODRIGUEZCorporal · January 16, 1971
- BRUCE CHARLES SHOVERPrivate First Class · January 16, 1971
Same unit, same day
- PAUL EDWARD LEARY JRMajor · Panel 5W, Line 49
From Edinburg
- HOMERO ELIUD TIJERINALance Corporal · July 4, 1966
- TEODORO DAVILAStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- JOSE MANUEL GOMEZLance Corporal · May 4, 1967
- VICTORIANO ESPINOZA JRPrivate · January 9, 1968
- ALFREDO GONZALEZSergeant · February 4, 1968
- NOLAN LESTER SIMMONSLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- RAFAEL MARTINEZSpecialist Four · March 29, 1968
- FLORENTINO MARTINEZ JRCorporal · November 25, 1968
- JUAN LEONARDO CONTRERASPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
- NOE TAMEZSpecialist Four · June 17, 1969
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.