THE WALL OF FACES

When I was in high school, I wore an MIA bracelet with Rodney Lynn Strobridge name on it.....
Through the years, I have never forgotten his name or his service.
I found this website with his picture, it was so nice to finally see who he was.

Rodney has a military marker in his memory at Arlington National Cemetery.

MAJ -STROBRIDGE--I STILL HAVE YOUR BRACLET WITH YOUR NAME IN MY SAFE IN A PACKAGE, WITH YOUR INFO --ON MISSING IN ACTION YOUR NOT FORGOTTEN GOD BE WITH YOU

If I should die, and leave you here awhile, be not like others, sore undone, who keep long vigils by the silent dust, and weep...for MY sake, turn again to life, and smile...Nerving thy heart, and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine...Complete these dear, unfinished tasks of mine...and I, perchance, may therein comfort you.

On 11 May 1972, then-Captains Rodney Lynn Strobridge, F Battery,79th Aerial Rocket Artillery Regiment and Robert John Williams, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 229th Aviation Battalion, crewed an AH-1G helicopter (tail number 68-15009), one in a flight of three providing air support to South Vietnamese Army forces heavily engaged by hostile units in the siege of An Loc, Binh Long Province. Their helicopter was hit in the tail boom by an SA-7 hand-held surface to air missile, and the boom was immediately severed. The Cobra went into a flat spin and crashed but no one saw the actual crash. Heavy anti-aircraft fire precluded a search of the crash site area. Both airmen were declared missing in action.
The Secretary of the Army approved a Presumptive Finding of Death for Rodney Strobridge on 15 May 1978. His remains have not been recovered.