Silvestre M Rivera

Sergeant
A CO, 1ST BN, 12TH INF RGT, 4 INF DIV
Army of the United States
10 July 1948 - 14 May 1970
Kerman, CA
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4 INF DIV

12TH INF RGT 		Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

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06 Dec 1997

Silvestre M Rivera

Not forgotten by his friends.

From an anonymous comrade

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 14 May 1970, during the incursion into the NVA sanctuary areas in Cambodia, Charlie Company 3/506 Infantry captured a massive NVA base camp. Alpha Company, 3/12 Infantry, was inserted to assist C/3/506 in securing the camp area while the supplies and munitions were destroyed. Alpha 3/12 took one casualty from a sniper and two more when they engaged an enemy force in a two hour fight. The three men were
  • SGT Silvestre M. Rivera, Kerman, CA
  • SGT Leroy Wallace, Jacksonville, FL
  • PFC Thomas J. Petela, Warren, MI


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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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