My Second Adopted MIA
Name: Edward Jay Rykoskey
Rank/Branch: E3/US Marine Corps
Unit: L/3rd Recon Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
Date of Birth: 11 May 1946
Home City of Record: Carlisle PA
Date of Loss: 18 August 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 160338N 1081218E (AT819613)
Status in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 October 1990 from one or
more of
the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Edward Rykoskey graduated from Carlisle High School in 1964,
and
joined the Marine Corps rather than wait to be drafted. The second year
of his
enlistment was to be spent in Vietnam, where he was shipped early in
1966.
On August 18, 1966, with four months of his tour left, Edward served as
the
radio man for a reconnaissance patrol consisting of four men which went
out in
the Da Nang area. Returning to Da Nang, the patrol was ambushed. Three
men
survived, and reported that Edward Rykoskey did not. Search parties were
sent
out to find Rykoskey's body, but after three or four days, they stopped
looking.
Edward was originally classified Killed In Action, status changed to
Missing In
Action, and later back to Killed in Action.
Whether Rykoskey lived or died that day in August 1966 will not be known
for
certain until there is proof positive of his death or survival. The U.S.
and the
Vietnamese have yet to determine the formula which would successfully
resolve
the questions that linger about the nearly 2500 Americans who did not
return
from the war in Vietnam.
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