WALL OF HONOR MEMBER
Name: CPL Robert
Ochoa (07-21-46 to 11-21-67)
Note: Posthumously promoted to Corporal
Roy Miller High School: 13th Casualty; 30st for the City
Graduated from Roy Miller: 1965
Branch: US Army
MOS: 11B10 - Infantryman
Unit: RECON PLT, E CO, 2ND
BATTALION, 39TH INFANTRY, 9TH INF DIV, USARV
Age when Deceased: 21 yrs old
Tour Of Duty: 09-20-67 to 11-21-67
Location: Kien Tuong Province, South
Vietnam
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
-Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Multiple fragmentation
wounds
Home of Record: Corpus Christi, Texas
Medals
Include: National Defense Service
Medal; Vietnam Service Medal; Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal; Purple Heart;
Bronze Star; Additional medals
awarded Posthumously - Military Merit Medal and Cross of Gallantry
Comment Left By Ram Chavez 09-27-25
ReplyDeleteRobert and I left in the bus with 40 other draftees & enlisted young men on Monday morning from the Old Federal Courthouse now TJH office. We sat together, and left for Vietnam together on Sat. Sept. 16, 1967. We flew together from Ft. Ord/Trabis AFB, California. Arrived at the 90th Replacement Battalion and waited for assignment orders. We were thinking we would ended up in the same unit. He told his Mom Mrs. Nina Ochoa that I was a medic & he and infantryman would take care of him. We survived the 1st roll, on the 2nd roll call Robert was assigned to the 9th Infantry Division down in the Delta, that was the last I saw him alive. I was assigned to the 199th Light Infantry Brigade on the 3rd Roll call. He was KIA on Nov. 21, 1967, I read his name on the causality list on the Stars & Stripes. Janie & I would visit Mrs. Ochoa often till her passing. He sincerely and truly was a good son, brother, and man....A Final Salute.......too!