Monuments to Honor DUSTOFF KIA

The original memorial honoring those killed in action during the Vietnam War was dedicated in 1973. A UH-1 (Huey) helicopter was dedicated as the memorial to the 214 crewmembers who were KIA during the Vietnam War. That memorial was dedicated and placed on the grounds of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School on Fort Sam Houston. Present that day and officiating at the ceremony were MG Spurgeon Neel and MG (then LTC) Patrick Brady.

                After the formation of the DUSTOFF Association a set of large memorial board was built to honor those KIA during the Vietnam War and a second large memorial board was built to honor those KIA in the Post-Vietnam era. This second board has the names of those killed during peacetime missions, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and the post-9/11 Global War on Terror. Currently, the total number of names on the memorial boards is 264.

Currently, a new plan to honor our KIAs has resulted in a program to install five granite monuments to honor these heroes. These monuments are to be placed under the large pergola on the grounds of the Army Medical Department Museum. This pergola houses three legacy helicopters used in Army Aeromedical Evacuation units (DUSTOFF and Solo-Pilots from the Korean War). The location is highly visible to visitors to the Museum and open to the public once the Army Medical Department Museum finishes the access portal. This access portal allows the public to enter the Museum grounds without having to go through the security process for access to the rest of the Fort Sam Houston Installation.

                The costs of this project are $40,640 for the production of 5 granite monuments inscribed with the names of all 265 crewmembers who died in the conduct of an aeromedical evacuation of the sick, wounded, or injured, on an flight to move whole blood or medical supplies to aid in the treatment of the sick, wounded or injured, or on a flight to move medical personnel to support and treat the sick, wounded, or injured. Installation costs and final preparation of the site for the tablets is estimated to be another $16,000. The image shown here is a conceptual rendition of the actual chosen site with the five monuments installed – we are planning not only the four required for all the names, and a fifth monument that would allow for some history, some inspirational message, or other images. Donations made to date are allowing us to pay cash for these monuments honoring their sacrifices in a very prominent and meaningful way. Excess donations will be provided to the Army Medical Department Museum Foundation to assist with the fund drive to enlarge the museum and provide a public access portal located on Harry Wurzbach Road. On 1 July we received our approval of the proffer from the Installation Commander and approval to move forward with the installation of the monuments.

Below are the names of those who gave their last full measure in the effort to save lives. They are arranged in chronological order and they are also grouped with the crewmembers with whom they were flying the day of the incident. You'll see a LOT of full crews with four and sometimes five names.

MAJ Charles L. Kelly 57^th Medical Detachment 1 July 1964

SP5 Wayne C. Simmons 57^th Medical Detachment 1 April 1965

CPT Charles Kane, Jr. 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 12 October 1965

CPL Orin Larry Allred PFC William Esposito, Jr. SSG Gilivaldo Martinez, Jr. 498^th Medical Company 11 November 1965

WO1 George W. Rice 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 18 December 1965

PFC Rudolph Jackymack 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 4 May 1966

CPT Donald Coles Woodruff 2LT Dennis Boyd Easley SP5 Charles Samuel Ridout SP4 Clifford Sheran Bratcher PFC Douglas Mason Kyser 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 20 July 1966

MAJ Kent Ellsworth Gandy MAJ Harry V. Phillips Jr. 254^th Medical Detachment 13 August 1966

CPT Joe Raymond Fulgham, Jr. 1LT Alan Harry Zimmerman SP4 Thomas Michael Martinez PFC Phillip Harry Johnson 283^rd Medical Detachment 2 February 1967

1LT Jack Rowley Lichte, Jr. WO1 Edward L. Bush SP4 Ronald Richard Fillmore PFC Clifford Herrin 57^th Medical Detachment 20 March 1967

CPT Robert Neal Bradley SSG Tennis Crispian Ferrell 498^th Medical Company 21 March 1967

SP4 Michael P. Kelley 82^nd Medical Detachment 26 March 1967

CPL Joel Carol Fowler 498th Medical Company 21 May 1967

SP4 Ronald Gale Trogdon 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 19 June 1967

1LT Howard John Schnabolk 498^th Medical Company 3 August 1967

SP5 Dwight D. Woolf 498^th Medical Company 4 August 1967

CPT Kurt Lloyd Kuhns WO1 Roger Clarke Rose SGT Francis E. Glazebrook SP4 Dalton Truro Goff SP4 Larry Gay Lance 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 8 September 1967

SP4 Ramior Herrera, Jr. 45^th Medical Company 22 September 1967

SSG Leroy Williams 498^th Medical Company 25 September 1967

1LT Lawrence Gallego 1LT David Bard Wainwright SP5 Willie F. Green SP5 Roland Albert Nielsen SP4 Ronald Andrew Martin 254^th Medical Detachment 4 October 1967

CPT Robert Gene Burlingham WO1 Robert George Porea PFC Joseph Hoggatt PFC Lewis Arthur Trask 45^th Medical Company 6 October 1967

1LT Thomas James Chiminello WO1 Forrest De Vere Rains, Jr. SP5 Herbert C. Donaldson, Jr. SP5 Lawrence Lano 57^th Medical Detachment 29 October 1967

MAJ Larry Gene Powell 45^th Medical Company 22 November 1967

CPL Ray Delgado 82^nd Medical Detachment 30 December 1967

WO1 Thomas E. Adams WO1 William C. Cheney PFC William D. Holland 498^th Medical Company 31 December 1967

CPT Marlon G. Runion 283^rd Medical Detachment 2 February 1968

1LT Jerry Lee Roe - MIA CW2 Alan Wendell Gunn - MIA SSG Wade L. Groth - MIA SSG Harry Willis Brown - MIA 50^th Medical Detachment 12 February 1968

SGT James Richardson 498^th Medical Company 6 April 1968

WO1 John Philip Supple 159^th Medical Detachment 5 April 1968

WO1 Thomas Ronald Pursel 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 19 May 1968

MAJ William Joseph Ballinger 1LT Guy Bernard Ephland, Jr. SP4 Alan Louis Matte SGT Kenneth Ray Rucker 45^th Medical Company 27 May 1968

WO1 James G. Zeimet 283rd Medical Detachment 4 September 1968

SP5 Charles Lavern Lumm 498th Medical Company 13 September 1968

WO1 Christopher D. Lucci 498th Medical Company 18 September 1968

SP4 Ronald Lester Granville 498th Medical Company 27 September 1968

SP4 Richard W. Sanders 54th Medical Detachment 1 October 1968

SP4 Calvin E. McGilton 54th Medical Detachment 3 October 1968

WO1 Reinis Fox 54th Medical Detachment 7 October 1968

WO1 Timothy Cole, Jr. WO1 Gary Wayne Doolittle SP4 Robert W. Dieffenbach, Jr. SGT Victor R. Hernandez 571^st and 54^th Medical Detachment 18 October 1968

CPT Robert Lee Cottman WO1 Dennis A. Groth SP5 Ronald L. Doolittle SP5 Stephen J. Saluga, III 82^nd Medical Detachment 19 October 1968

SGT David A. Wencl 82^nd Medical Detachment 3 November 1968

1LT Stephen Carl Beals WO1 James Donald Doran SP5 Johnny Glen Gregg SP4 John S. Alling, Jr. PFC Robert Earnest Jones 15 Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 26 November 1968

SP4 Charles Elbert Gay SP4 Teddy Ray Sininger 498^th Medical Company 15 December 1968

WO1 Sylvester Davis WO1 Arvid O. Silverberg SFC William Roy Henderson PFC Robert Royce Sloppye 283rd Medical Detachment 23 January 1969

CPT Otha Lindsey Poole WO1 William Hix, Jr. SP4 Gary Morgan Johnson SP4 James Ronald McNish 45^th Medical Company 5 February 1969

SP4 Kirk Allen Woolley 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 11 February 1969

SP4 Gary Lynn Dubach SP4 Stephen L. Schumacher 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 14 February 1969

SP4 Richard J. Rochacz 498^th Medical Company 21 February 1969

WO1 Guy Frederick Johnson WO1 Douglas Earl Stover SP4 Gregory Lee Habets SP5 Carlos W. Rucker 254^th Medical Detachment 26 March 1969

1LT Jerry Tyrus Lee SP4 James Anthony Margro SP4 James Reese Walters           326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 13 May 1969

WO1 Robert E. Layman, Jr. WO1 Fredrick S. Walters SP5 David J. Ewing PFC Jeffrey Allen Richardson 54^th Medical Detachment 22 May 1969

WO1 Jonathan R. Vars 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 17 July 1969

CPT George Louis Miner WO1 Gerald Lewis Caton 326^th Med Bn, 101^st AA Div 17 August 1969

SP5 Louis Scott DiBari 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 5 September 1969

SSG James Wood Megehee SP4 Gary Lee Bowdler 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 7 September 1969

WO1 Roy Miles Stillwell 57^th Medical Detachment 23 November 1969

WO1 Rocky D. Armstead WO1 Orval A. Baldwin SP5 Stephen E. Arnold SP5 Hubert D. Sutton 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 5 October 1969

CW3 Ferman Hodges SP4 Billy W. Denley SP4 Ralph Silvio Cinotti 15^th Med Bn, 1 Cav Div 28 October 1969

SP4 John Douglas Thrasher 254^th Medical Detachment 4 November 1969

WO1 Don Leslie Rock 57^th Medical Detachment 19 November 1969

SP5 Michael John Poll 498^th Medical Company 23 November 1969

CPT Jesse Allan Wisdom WO1 Gary David Thatcher SGT Richard F. Walton SP4 Morris E. Williams 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 6 February 1970

1LT Douglas G. MacNeil 159^th Medical Detachment 7 April 1970

SP5 Loran E. Sweat, Jr. 283^rd Medical Detachment 23 April 1970

WO1 Rodney Keith Arnold SP6 James T. Conway SFC James H. Brooks, Jr. 15^th Med Bn, 1 Cav Div 25 April 1970

CPT John R. Hill - MIA SP4 Zettie J.C. Dulin PFC Randall W. Love 237^th Medical Detachment 27 April 1970

CW2 John R. Smith SP5 Kevin R. Keleher SP5 Donald Ray Marlow 45th Medical Company 30 April 1970

WO1 Alfred J. Gaidis 1LT Phillip N. Schmitz SP4 Charles A Covey SP4 John Alyn Largent 237^th Medical Detachment 10 May 1970

SP5 Theodore W. High IV 254^th Medical Detachment 15 May 1970

SGT Gary Lynn Taylor 15^th Med Bn, 1^st Cav Div 24 May 1970

WO1 Bruce E. Graham WO1 Edward T. O’Brien SGT David K. Johnson SGT William Hawkins 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 26 May 1970

SP4 Kenneth H. Lamborn 498^th Medical Company 9 June 1970

SP5 Jack Lee Wolfe 254^th Medical Detachment 27 June 1970

SGT Brent R. Law 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 21 July 1970

WO1 William A. Parker 498^th Medical Company 26 July 1970

CW2 Robert O. Hill Jr. WO1 Michael Lee Bradley SP5 Kenneth C. Nokes SP4 David W. MacLurg SP4 Jeffrey M. White 237^th Medical Detachment 27 September 1970

WO1 John L. Nesovanovic SP4 Ronald K. Allgood SP4 Robert W. Alverson, Jr. 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 2 October 1970

CW2 Gary W. Engelhardt WO1 John R. Bregler SP4 Guy L. Mears, Jr. 254^th Medical Detachment 17 October 1970

1LT Kenneth M. Schlie CW2 Terence A Handley SP4 Harold C. Gay SP4 Thomas Ray Weiss 68^th and 54^th Medical Detachment 20 October 1970

CW2 Donald R. Cook WO1 Charles F. Smith SP4 Dennis E. Reese PFC Karl L. Reineccius 498^th Medical Company 26 October 1970

SP5 Gregory Lee White 54^th Medical Detachment 11 November 1970

WO1 Paul R. Brass WO1 Randall Freeman SSG Stephen F. Johnson SP4 Jeffery D. Kuersten SP4 John W. Murphy 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 14 December 1970

SP5 Daniel F. Cox SGT William A. Malenfant 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 15 January 1971

CW2 Joseph G. Brown 237^th Medical Detachment 18 February 1971

WO1 John V. Rauen WO1 John M. Souther SP4 Dennis E. Gilliland SP4 John J. Levulis 498^th Medical Company 20 February 1971

SGT James L. Wieler 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 7 March 1971

SP5 Russell G. Ahrens 571^th Medical Detachment 18 March 1971

WO1 Hugh M. Pettit 68th Medical Detachment 10 April 1971

SP5 Michael Lee Brummer 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 23 April 1971

SP5 Robert F. Speer 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 24 April 1971

SP5 David P. Medina 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 30 April 1971

CW2 Billy Dean Pedings SP5 Donald Wood 237^th Medical Detachment 15 June 1971

CW2 Chester A. Luc CW2 Thomas J. Stanush SP5 Joseph M. Feeney SGT David J. Funes 326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 10 October 1971

CW2 Ronald K. Schulz WO1 John S. Chrin SGT Michael Lee Darrah SGT Hugo Araux Gaytan PFC Ricky Alan Pate 57^th Medical Detachment 13 October 1971

1LT William R. Lewis, Jr. CW2 Anthony J. Mensen SP4 Billy V. Morris SP4 Anton J. Schnobrich 68^th and 54^th Medical Detachment 22 October 1971

CW2 Robert Louis Horst 283^th Medical Detachment 7 April 1972

Post-Vietnam

MAJ James C. Rothwell CPT Benjamin S. Park SSG Carrol C. Zanchi SP4 Edwin Lee Stoller 377^th Medical Company 16 March 1969

SP4 Jerome S. Ryan 15^th Medical Detachment 09 October 1971

CW2 John C. Johnson WO1 Desmond P. Downey SP5 Earl D. Rankorn SP5 Harvey J. Salas 421^st Medical Company 15 March 1975

CPT Terrance K. Woolever CPT John L. Dunnavant SGT Floyd Smith D/326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 4 January 1978

WO1 Sheryl Siroonian D/326^th Med Bn, 101 AA Div 4 March 1980

MAJ Richard Cobb Bulliner CPT William S. Inklebarger SSG Gregg A. Penn PVT Mark R. Welch 571^st Medical Detachment 4 September 1982

1LT James B. Belcher CW2 Kevin R. Killman SFC Doyle Dean Cannon SPC Jerome C. Brachel 3/498th Medical Company 6 February 1987

CPT Kim Jon Strader 63^rd Medical Detachment 17 September 1988

1LT Peter J. Rose CW2 Carol L. McKinney SGT Dallas R. Cooper 1267^th   Medical Company 14 December 1990

SSG G. V. Hailey 236th Medical Company 19 January 1991

CW3 Richard Lee 229^th Medical Detachment 7 February 1991

1LT Daniel Graybeal WO1 Kerry Heine SSG Michael Robson 507^th Medical Company 27 February 1991

1LT Joseph D. Maks CW2 Patrick A. Donaldson SGT Michael S. Smith SPC Kelly D. Phillips 36^th Medical Detachment 12 March 1991

CPT Sashai Dawn 1LT Vicki L. Boyd SSG Linda S Simonds 126^th Medical Company 13 May 1991

CWO Hans N. Gukeisen CWO Brian K. VanDusen SGT Richard P. Carl 571^st Medical Company 9 May 2003

CWO Ian D. Manuel CWO Philip A. Johnson, Jr. SPC Christopher A. Golby SPC Michael A. Diraimondo 571^st Medical Company 8 January 2004

SSG Heathe N. Craig 159^th Medical Company 21 June 2006

SSG Robert B. Cowdrey C-3/82 Aviation Regiment 13 October 2011

CW2 Don C. Viray CW2 Nicholas S. Johnson SPC Dean R. Shaffer SPC Chris J. Workman A-2/25 Aviation Regiment 19 April 2012

Major Trevor P. Joseph C-1/5 USAAD JRTC 26 September 2019