MEDARIS, RICK EGGBURTUS
07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED
Name: Rick Eggburtus Medaris
Branch/Rank: United States Army/E4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 01 March 1949
Home City of Record: JENISON MI
Date of Loss: 04 November 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 123000 North 1090400 East
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Other Personnel in Incident: John Anderson,
Richard Bauer, Alfanso Castro, John Payne, Marion Roach all remains
returned 1973.
Refno: 1516
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.
REMARKS:
07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED
CACCF/CRASH/NON AIRCREW/KHANH HOA
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On September 5, 1973, the Central Identification
Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of
Staff Sergeant Rick Eggburtus Medaris, missing from the Vietnam
War.
Staff Sergeant Medaris entered the U.S. Army from Michigan and
was a member of the 155th Assault Helicopter Company. On
November 4, 1969, he was a passenger aboard a UH-1H Iroquois
(tail number 68-16057) on a routine administrative flight over
central Vietnam. The flight encountered inclement weather while
over Lam Dong Province and crashed, killing SSG Medaris.
A ground search team was unable to locate the crash site and SSG
Medaris' remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1973,
U.S. investigators located the crash site and recovered personal
artifacts, aircraft wreckage, and human remains, and were able
to identify SSG Medaris from these remains.
Staff Sergeant Medaris is memorialized in the Courts of the
Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.