Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard ) conduct a full military honors burial for Army Maj. Dale W. Richardson, 28, of Mount Sterling, Ill.; Staff Sgt. Bunyan D. Price Jr., 20, of Monroe, ; and Sgt. Rodney L. Griffin, 21, of Mexico, Mo., buried within a single casket of group remains Oct. 20, 2015, in Arlington National Cemetery. The three Soldiers went missing in Vietnam when their UH-1H Iroquois (Huey) helicopter was shot down after being diverted by bad weather to Cambodian airspace. Richardson, Price, and Griffin died at the site of the crash during a firefight with
Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard ) conduct a full military honors burial for Army Maj. Dale W. Richardson, 28, of Mount Sterling, Ill.; Staff Sgt. Bunyan D. Price Jr., 20, of Monroe, ; and Sgt. Rodney L. Griffin, 21, of Mexico, Mo., buried within a single casket of group remains Oct. 20, 2015, in Arlington National Cemetery. The three Soldiers went missing in Vietnam when their UH-1H Iroquois (Huey) helicopter was shot down after being diverted by bad weather to Cambodian airspace. Richardson, Price, and Griffin died at the site of the crash during a firefight with enemy forces. All three soldiers were identified by circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, to include mitochondrial DNA, matched with their siblings. ( Army photo by Spc. Brandon C. Dyer)
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