Editor’s note: This tribute is one in a series of reader-submitted tributes to Vietnam War-era veterans that will be posted during April. 

SGT. AL ZACHARY, U.S. ARMY

HOMETOWN: Hansville

BRANCH: U.S. Army

YEARS OF SERVICE: July 1967 – June 1969

HIGHEST RANK OR GRADE ATTAINED:Sergeant

SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR: Fort Lewis, basic training; Fort Benning, advanced infantry, guerrilla warfare training; Fort Bragg, NCO school, jump school; rifle squad leader, platoon sergeant, 173rd Airborne, 1st Battalion, Bin Din Province, South Vietnam.

POST-WAR CAREER: Graduate, Central Washington University; teacher, DoD, England; retired, Hawaii state government, 2008.