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SERGEANT MAJOR BILLY RAY
LANEY, a member of the 5th Special Forces Group
arrived in Vietnam May 1967.
One month later on
3 June he was listed as Missing in Action (MIA)
near the Laotian border.
The Defense Department,
11 years later in 1978, declared him deceased. His
family knew he was missing for 33 years.
A few months ago the
remains of Laney, three US Marines, and several
South Vietnamese soldiers were discovered in a
mass grave.
Those remains were
transported to the forensic laboratory in Hawaii
where SGM Laney was positively identified as being
a member of that group.
To the best of our knowledge
there are only two other soldiers from Alabama
still unaccounted for
and listed as MIA’s from the Vietnam War.
They
are Prentice Wayne Hicks from Huntsville and
Edward Upner from Daleville.
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