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RUBEN MAXIMO ARMENTA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 20, 1948 – March 30, 1967
Service recordRuben Maximo Armenta, of Pico Rivera, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 69
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Pico Rivera, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 69
- HERBERT CHARLES RICECaptain · March 29, 1967
- ROBERT EDWIN RUONAVAARAAirman First Class · March 29, 1967
- RONALD EDWARD AMESPetty Officer Second Class · March 30, 1967
- ALBERT GABRIEL ANTERPrivate First Class · March 30, 1967
From Pico Rivera
- EDWARD LEONARD LOWEPrivate First Class · December 26, 1965
- RICHARD EDWARD WHITINGPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- JIMMY VASQUEZPrivate First Class · December 17, 1966
- JOHN RAYMOND STALTERSergeant · March 3, 1967
- FRANK BARRERAS IIICorporal · March 20, 1967
- JAMES ALBERT BODALance Corporal · April 29, 1967
- MICHAEL OWEN SHELLEYPrivate First Class · May 29, 1967
- GILBERT SOLANO SALAZARLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- RONALD L ANDREWSSergeant · October 8, 1967
- GEORGE ALBERT JUAREZPrivate First Class · March 20, 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.