Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965-1972

Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965-1972. . , Stranger, if you go to the land of the Spartans, tell them we lie here, obedient to their laws., Do not forget us, for then, we truly will have died. May the pride, strength, and courage of the Strike Force endure forever. , 1965. Robert R Bohler . Charles E Boston . Frank Boynton . George E Burchett . George W Burkheart . Herbert J Dexter . Johnnie W Faircloth . James T Faulkner . Ernest K Gerhardt . James W Grey . Lercy Hicks . Lawrence Jackson . George G Kilbuck . James H Lewis . Joe L Meek . Ernest L Miller . Robert E Rawls . Rudy M Sagon . Jose W Suarez . Joseph R Sweda . Roynald E Taylor . Jerry D Underwood . Pete A Valasquez . Johnnie P Winfrey, 1966. Jarel W Ayers . Jesse T Bailey . James H Baker Jr . Gerald J Bannach . Will Page Barton II . Roger L Berg . Carlos Betancourt-Mojica . Charles J Blanco . Kenneth C Boudreaux . John D Bowman III . John A Brown . George E Bryant . Marshall Burke Jr . Stephan E Burton . Robert L Clark . Horton S Coker Jr . Roger C Collette . William F Collier . William Cooley . Denton W Crooker . William L Cyr . Robert O Davis . David K Deen . Lawrence J Diesher . Thomas R Devlin . David L Dodson . Robert J Donovan . Joseph R Ellman . Richard M Epps . Andrew C Evans . Carl L Falck Jr . Robert A Fenton . David Flores . Luster C Friel . Edward T Frodsham . Bobby G Gadie . Clarence Galloway . David B Garcia . Edward Garcia . Vincent F Garvey . Anthony Gennocro . Galen D Grethen . Joseph D Guerrero . Robert Hadden . Robert Hanna . J D Harrell . Gene Hawthorne . Timothy L Hayes . A T Howell . James L Hudspeth . Terry F Huston . Malakia Jackson Jr . Otis E Jackson . Sylvester Jackson Jr . Phillip P Jenkins . David Johnson . Joe T Johnson . Ronald W Jones . Ernest Kelly Jr . Randle Kinney . Mack A Knight . Famous L Lane . William Leon . Bruce L Marosites . Tomas V Martinez . Robert L McCaig . Tommie L McFarland . Clifford A McKennan . John M Mincie . Steven P Mollohan . Alexander Montoya . Tommy Morales . George A Morningstar . Lawrence D Mungin III . Michael T Murphy . Melvin T Nishiyama . Ronnie L Noseff . Duane V Olson . William F Otto . Willie J Peppers Jr . Dennis L Phillips . Walter Piper Jr . Johnny P Price . Melvin Reeder . Elias R Rodriguez . David A Scott . William D Settlemire . Derreil K Sharp . James E Shuyler . Michael Simpson George J Skapinsky . Anthony Skodmin . Bruce M Smith . Fred D Smith Jr . Hubert R Smith . Stephen J Steriti . Alfred L Stonehouse . Richard A Sullivan . Joseph J Swayze . Roy E Thomas . Robert E Thompson . Wayne M Traylor . Ernest A Tucker . Alex E Vaczi . Hardin B Walker . Russell B Walker . Frankie L Wallace . James C Wallace . Donald Webb . Howard D Weiss . Walter Williams . Richard Youngbear, 1967. Ray A Archuletta . Fiorentino C Barron . Robert W Barton . Percy Beasley Jr . Louis W Bellach Jr . Edward Bobo . David Boggs . Richard K Boyd . Paul D Caramella . John Charlton . Ronald P Cherrstrom . Roy D Chitwood . Walerija Chulchatschinow . James L Coachman Jr . Wayne A Colantuono . Ray E Coln . Curtis E Cothran . Holbert E Davis . Reinaldo Delgado . William Duncan . Larry D Earls . Earl K Easterling . Coil Edmond Jr . Ernie J Elfenbein . William K Elliott . Aldwin A Ellis . Baxter F Ervin . Chris S Evans . Charles R Ferrell . James B Fields . Hugh R Flemister . Thomas L Forbes . Donald R Foster . Thomas E Francis . William J Franks . William C Freund . Darrell F Gaskins . Walter L Goshorn . Jesse F Green Jr . Wille R Griffith . Michael Grimes . Earle C Hamilton Jr . William E Hamilton . Arthur L Hawkins Jr . Randy L Heerdt . James R Hicks . Rodney G Hill . John W Hudgens . Danny L Ingles . Alexander Jackson . Allen L Jackson . Kenneth E James . Stanley M Jamrozy . William A Jateff . Sanford S Johnson . Gary B Jones . Thomas E Joseph . Elmer L Juckett . Coleman J Kane . Charles H Kilgore . Ivan C King . Wilber L Kohr . Carl R Konopa . Robert L Lee Jr . James T Likely . James C Martin . Victor A Mazitis . James M McCormick . Craig Allen McDaniel . Calvin L McDavis . Larry J McDonald . James A McKenzie . Robin P Milovich . Johnson Minnitee Jr . David H Mitchell . Dennis P Neely . Mark W Neumann . Dennis G Nicola . John H O'Brien . Phillip J Olofson . George E Overshine . Robert J Padgett . Eugene A Parish . Ronald W Parker . Joseph Parks . Johnnie H Patterson . Thomas Petramalo . Robert Lenwood Platt J . Allen W Porter . William A Proctor . Robert J Reginald . Ossie Reynolds . Steven B Riccione . Richard P Ruiz . Daniel J Ryan . O D Scott . Charles Seefeldt . John C Silver . Elijah H Smith . Vennie L Smith . Alvin R Spider . Andrew P Stein Jr . Henry J Stuckey . George Tallman . David A Tanner . Calvin L Taylor . Henry E Teaslev . Rufus A Thomas Jr . Leon Thornton . Jerry J Tucker . Jackie A Tuohy . Raymond R Turner . George H Ulrich . Norman W Vincent . Oliver A Ware . Dale E Wayrynen . Carson Leo Whaley Jr . Calvin P White . Alan D Whitlock . Henry J Wilhelmi . William E Willingham . Garold T Wilson . William E Wilson . John M Zehnder, 1968. Billie R Acree . Dennis K Anderson . James B Anderson . Craig P Averill . Leslie A Ball . Christopher H Bell . Donald J Boaz . Charles P Brown . John P Brown . Richard C Brown . Gene M Burkell . Vincent J Caravello . Alan G Carter . Jackie D Chambers . Albert E Collins . Michael L Deane . Michael F Deeny . Russell F Deitchler . Charles D Dorman . Vesti T Driggers . Phillip John Essig . Willie G Gaddy . Larry M Gross . Richard O Gullixson . Charles W Harbert . Franklin D Hatton . Francis J Hefner . Robert E Holeyfield . James M Holmes . Jimmy L Howard . Robert D Hughes . Dennis Hyland . Crawford Jackson Jr . James J Jenk . James Johnson Jr . Obbie Johnson . Robert L Jones . Terry Kenny . David Allen Knox . John E Laipple . Dale L Lambert . Milton A Lee . William W Lester . Richard L Lohse . Luis A Lopez-Ramos . Gary M Mabrey . David A Maddux . Charles B Mason . Leonard D McGinnis . Donald R Miller . Graham L Mills . Jeff Mulkey . Joseph Neal . James E O'Toole Jr . Jerry L Patrick . Morris Powell . Dennis E Purcell . Jewel L Rainwater . Thomas E. Raubolt . Anthony Reed . Robert Rera . Jesse E Scavella . Amos C Sherill . James R Sherwood . Michael W Sinibald . Jerry E Spicer . Mark G Stickles . Robert M Sullivan . Eugene M Sutton Jr . Terry L Tebbetts . Marvin G Tozour . John E Urbelis . Richard W Van Blarcom . David Wagner . Edward Walker . Charles E Walthall . Jerry D Wells . Eugene Williams . Lawrence D Williams . Stephen M Worley, 1969. Alfred E Alvey Jr . Robert Ballard . Anderson D Bolton . William H Brown Jr . Elijah W Burkett . Daniel G Casey . Lorenzo Chapa Jr . Charles Earl Clubbs . Juan A Covarrubias . Robert D DeBoard . Alan David Ela . Steven E Frederick . Ralph L Glover . Robert E Grant . John E Gurovick . William L Hayden . Earl T Hoag . Richard L Hopkins . Roger H Howes . Ralph E Johnson . James Jones . Steven T Kiel . Richard M Logan . Fernando L Lozano . William D McGivern . Douglas W McPhee . Thomas Mendenhall . Richard D Miller . Matthew E Morton Jr . John L Motley Jr . Alvin R Narcisse . James Michael Norman . Wayne L Noth . Bobby Quesenberry . Tony Palacios . Roy Vernon Rawlin . Dennis L Roads . William A Ruddan . Antonino Ruggeri . Roger W Smelser . Frank D Smitherman . Joseph O Strickland . David E Theobald . Leon Tisdale . Jimmy R Westmoreland . Jimmy W Willeford . Jack E Williams . Thomas L Wisniowicz, 1970. Samuel Earl Asher . Robert E Backman . Russell L Bahrke Jr . Louis J Barberia . Lawrence Bierbaum . John J Burns Jr . Morgan L Cahoon . Róbert E Cain . Frank Carvajal . Jimmie L Chamblee . David L Christopherson . John A Claggett . Newton S Clement . Harold G Craft . John L Davis . Robert R Davis . Timothy C Farrell . Kenneth L Foutz . Frank R Fratellenico . Ralph A Gaddis . Gary W Gear . Stephen A Golsh . John T Gutekunst . Delbert E Hall . Ronald L Haug . Donnie E Horton . Frederick E Huttie III . Michael C Jensen . Ben O Johnson . McArthur Johnson . William E Johnson . David L Jones . Marshall K Jones . Charles R King . Philip Knieper . Jeffery Kuersten . Gerald A Kulm . Vincent M LaRocca . Rudolph Lovato . Billy R Lucas . Leo J Ludvigsen . William P Lyons . Willianı E Malcolm Jr . John R Mariani . Billy R McCullough . Ivory L McKinney . Green E Miller Jr . Paul Miller . Raymond R Moon . William W Morrow . Peter F Nolan . Vernon L Oakland . Marlin T Peterson . Fernando Rios-Maldonado . Roy L Richardson . Val C Robinson . Sidney E Rohler . Pastor F Ruiz . Steve R Sandlin . Ronald E Schmidt . Harold W Shuler . Sheldon Silverman . Allen J Smith . Wayne K Smith . William J Stieve . Edward W Stone . Stanley H Trygg Jr . James A Tyner . Robert A Wall . Phillip R Warfield . Gary Washenik . Glen R Witycyak, 1971. Alvin Adikai Jr . David B Beglau . John T Dozier II . Evelyn F Lankford . Larry D Loden . Lonnie W Mitchel . Frederick Murphy, 1972. Ronnie D Beets . Rubert G Humphreys, Reverse side of marker: , Medal of Honor. Dale E. Wayrynen 18 May 1967 . Milton A. Lee 26 April 1968 . Frank R. Fratellenico 19 August 1970, At least 448 2/502 soldiers were killed in Vietnam and at least 2500 were wounded. Nearly every man committed to the rifle platoons of the battalion became a combat casualty., In Memory of the Strike Force soldiers , lost in a tragic midair collision 8 March 1988.. Shirley, Charles L. . Alter, Richard L. . Sabot, Dennis C. . Hintz, Samuel A. . bath, Clifford W. III . Draper, James Jr. . Jankowski, Michael . Sayer, Timothy S. . Franklin, Andrew J. III . Rivas, Jeffrey L.