Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old
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Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard ) conduct a full military honors burial for Army Maj. Dale W. Richardson, 28, of Mount Sterling, Ill.; Staff Sgt. Bunyan D. Price Jr., 20, of Monroe, N.C.; and Sgt. Rodney L. Griffin, 21, of Mexico, Mo., buried within a single casket of group remains Oct. 20, 2015, in Arlington National Cemetery. The three Soldiers went missing in Vietnam when their UH-1H Iroquois (Huey) helicopter was shot down after being diverted by bad weather to Cambodian airspace. Richardson, Price, and Griffin died at the site of the crash during a firefight with enemy forces. All three soldiers were identified by circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, to include mitochondrial DNA, matched with their siblings. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Brandon C. Dyer)
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