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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 25834" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Kalani </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Earl </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 SF Group (Det A-323) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Master Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5th December 1974 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>42 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,,Honolulu,Hawaii Section T Site 260 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Hawaii</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 14.1.1932</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entered service 1951</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served in Korean War</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>77 SF Group 1954-56</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14 SF Operational Detachment (Sp. 2) 1956-61</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 SF Group 1961-64</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 SF Group 1964-67</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 1967 Phu Bai,South Vietnam</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>DOW Korea</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MSG Earl Kalani, 14th SFOD and ODA-323. An original member of 1st SFG, was deployed in 1957 on the first SF mission to Vietnam. He served three more tours in RVN.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>While stationed at Phu Bai in 1967, he was critically wounded when he shielded his captain's body from an assassination attempt by a VC who had infiltrated the CIDG strike force.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MSG Kalani never recovered from the injury, despite several surgeries, and died of his wounds in 1974.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-kalani.32674/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/32/32674-de29a22c6c8003b3144dcc3f2bfcab5f.jpg?1591436521" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-kalani.12691/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12691-c0ec3011fb02a9a393debd66b1de147b.jpg?1591398678" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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