Greetings! I'm Dan Thorstad, Veterans Service Officer for Cass County, North Dakota. I'm assisting the sister of a deceased Vietnam-era veteran, SP5 Darrell Meidinger, MOS 91E (attended 91A school), and am looking for any information about this veteran. His sister is positive he had served time in Vietnam but his records don't reflect this. She provided a picture of his uniform and, for all intents and purposes, it confirms his service. The uniform has a combat patch from the Army Medical Training Center and he has the Vietnam Campaign Medal on his ribbon rack.
She has told me that Darrell had volunteered to support medical evacuations from Vietnam while he was in Texas. The uniform corroborates this based on the combat patch. However, his personnel file has no orders and service in Vietnam is not listed on his DD214 or 2-1. The most likely period of his Vietnam service would be when he was at Ft. Sam Houston between Nov 1969 and Feb 1970. He later PCS'd to Fort Benning and seperated from there July 1971.
Please contact me if you knew SP5 Meidinger or can corroborate the fact that trainees helped with stateside evacuations from Vietnam. My email address is thorstadd@casscountynd.gov
Allthough spelling of first name, and time / dates are slightly different....
The below is what I could find, informationwise:
Name: MEIDINGER DARYL GENE
Branch: ARMY
Rate: E03
Rank: PRIVATE 1ST CLASS
MOS: 91A
MOS Title: Medical Corpsman
Entered: (No information)
Discharged: 690430
Service Number: (Information withheld by poster, for reasons of privacy)
State: WASHINGTON
Race: CAUCASIAN
Recommending you to initially see following website, in order for sister to request copy of Brothers military records. B-o-t-h the DD-214 (and following is of importance!) a-s-w-e-l-l as Brothers so called "201-file". (Sister being next of kin, and therefor the one allowed to retain copys of records).
