Robert Steven Trujillo

Vietnam War
Unit12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
RankStaff Sergeant U.S. Army
Entered Service FromSanta Fe New Mexico
Date of DeathJanuary 7 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Staff Sergeant Trujillo was a rifleman with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On January 7, 1968, he was on a combat operation near the border of Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces in South Vietnam. He was last seen advancing with the armored personnel carriers attached to his unit. He was listed as Missing in Action. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.