THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever.

Thank you Specialist Four Robert B. Young for volunteering to serve in our country's armed forces during troubled times and in a far and dangerous land. He served as a Military Policeman and was assigned to the 2ND SECURITY CO, 10TH TRANS BN, 124TH TRANS CMD, ARMY SPT CMD CAM RANH BAY, 1ST LOG CMD.
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Dear Sp4 Robert Young, Thank you for your service as a Military Policeman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Lent has begun, and so has Daylight Saving's Time. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

SP4 Robert B. Young was a military policeman serving with the 2nd Security Guard Company, 10th Transportation Battalion, 124th Transportation Command, U.S. Army Support Command Cam Ranh Bay, 1st Logistical Command, U.S. Army Vietnam. In their “Operational Report – Lessons Learned” for the period ending April 30, 1971, the U.S. Army Support Command (which included Cam Ranh Bay) reported that drug problems were “demanding more and more attention.” The scope and size of the problem was “difficult to measure” and “insufficient drug orientation” for new personnel being processed through replacement battalions was a continuing problem. Measures were recommended; however, these were insufficient to safeguard Young from the scourge of illicit drug use in Vietnam. Three days after his arrival in country on April 19, 1971, he passed out in his billets at his unit’s base camp and was taken to a military medical facility where he was pronounced dead on arrival. When a final casualty report was issued five months later, it revealed that Young had aspirated the contents of his stomach due to “a combination of alcohol and acute narcotism.” He was twenty-one years old. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Operational Report -Lessons Learned, Headquarters, U.S. Army Support Commands - Saigon, Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh Bay, Period Ending 30 April 1971” at archive.org; obituary from The York Weekly (York, ME), May 6, 1971, courtesy of Devin Burritt, Reference and Technology Librarian, York Public Library, York ME]

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