Robert Gordon Cozart Jr.

Vietnam War
Unit214th Aviation Battalion
RankCaptain U.S. Army
Entered Service FromHammond Louisiana
Date of DeathMarch 20 1970
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Cozart was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 214th Aviation Battalion, 164 Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. On March 20, 1970, he was the pilot of a Cessna Bird Dog Observation Aircraft (O-1G) on visual reconnaissance en-route to Tra Vinh, Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam. Contact was lost and he was listed as Missing in Action. His remains were recovered on April 27, 1989 and identified on July 27, 2001. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.