Robert L. Berry

12 July 1966 - STAFF SERGEANT ROBERT L. BERRY.  Sergeant Berry dies in Thailand.  He is assigned to the HH-3 Jolly Green Giant squadron at Udorn RTAFB shortly after its arrival to Thailand.  The unit's mission takes it into the remote mountainous regions of Laos, where it stages out of a highly classified CIA-controlled site, and performs rescues deep into North Vietnam and enemy-held Laos.  Living conditions are primitive, rudimentary at best.  It is believed Bob contracts Black Water Fever while serving at one such site.