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STEVEN LEE JENKINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 20, 1947 – January 15, 1969
Service recordSteven Lee Jenkins, of Santa Ana, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 8
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 981 MP CO 97 MP BN 16 MP GRP
- Born
- August 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Santa Ana, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1969; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 8
- HAROLD LEE JONESPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
- FREDERICK DANIEL KANSIKLance Corporal · January 15, 1969
- JOHN FRANCIS KAPPPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE LANEYPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
From Santa Ana
- WILLIAM FORBES EISENBRAUNCaptain · July 5, 1965
- RUSSELL LAVERNE BISHOPSergeant · March 21, 1966
- CLYDE D MCDONALD IIPrivate First Class · March 25, 1966
- DONALD LEROY HEASTONPlatoon Sergeant · August 23, 1966
- CHARLES EUGENE STOKESPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- DOMINGO ESCALANTE JRSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- GARY KENNETH SMITHSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- ROBERT ANTHONY CHAPPSergeant · April 14, 1967
- RALPH JEAN TURCOTTELance Corporal · May 9, 1967
- RODGER LEE FORTUNESpecialist Four · May 26, 1967
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.