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TEDDY RAY SININGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 23, 1948 – December 15, 1968
Service recordTeddy Ray Sininger, of West Union, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 498 MED CO USARV
- Born
- January 23, 1948
- Home of record
- West Union, Ohio (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 27
- THOMAS EARLE RAMSEYCorporal · December 15, 1968
- EARNEST EARL SHEFFIELDPrivate First Class · December 15, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD SLATERSecond Lieutenant · December 15, 1968
- JOHN MATHEW VITELLO JRSpecialist Four · December 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES ELBERT GAYSpecialist Five · Panel 36W, Line 25
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.