United States of AmericaPOW / MIA · Still unaccounted for
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Staff Sergeant Echol Wayne Coalston Jr. served in the U.S. Army. Echol served with the US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM. Echol served in the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Echol was 27 years old.
How He Died
Manner
Undetermined
Cause
Drowning
Circumstance
Missing in action
Place
Phuoc Tuy
Service Record
U.S. Army
76P40: Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist
MATERIEL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST
PHUOC TUY
1972
Pay grade E06. DCAS record DCAS-VN-009583.
Conflicts
Awards & Decorations
4
Unit awards
Foreign awards
Memorials
Burial Information
Cemetery
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
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Permanent identifier
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Echol W Coalston Jr.
Staff Sergeant
U.S. Army
- 1972
US ARMY VIETNAM
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