This looks like a missing year of history all together
Ryan P. Niebuhr
CW2
2BDE Historian

10 April 1971       SP4 Ralph W. Jones (B/1-502 IN) earned the Purple Heart (Posthumously). SP4 Jones died from small arms gun fire wounds in the Thua Thien Province, Republic of Vietnam. (STRIKE History; The Virtual Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial; National Achieves Coffelt Database)

15 April 1971       SSG George A. Pacheco (E/1-502 IN) earned the Purple Heart (Posthumously). SSG Pacheco died from wounds in the Thua Thien, Republic of Vietnam. (STRIKE History; The Virtual Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial; National Achieves Coffelt Database)

15 April 197 1       The following Soldiers: SGT John L. Wilson Jr. (HHC/1-502 IN); SSG George A. Pacheco, SGT Jeffry E. Cowley, SGT Thomas J. Gettelfinger, CPL Robert J. Dutkiewicz (E/1-502 IN) earned the Purple Heart (Posthumously) for military merit and for wounds received which resulted their deaths from small arms gun fire wounds while on a combat operation at an airfield landing zone when the area came under attack by a hostile force, on Dong Do Mountain, 13 KM W-NW of Ruong Ruong, in the Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam.

18 April 1971       Medics from the 1-502 IN saved the lives of three Vietnamese civilians while on a MEDCAP mission near Hue. Two of the victims were involved in a motorcycle accident, and the third was injured by a VC mine minutes before the MEDCAP team arrived. The ‘First Strike” medics administered emergency first aid treatment and called in a “dustoff” to transport the wounded Vietnamese to the 85th Evacuation Hospital in Phu Bai. (Rendezvous with Destiny; Screaming Eagle Vietnam Diary; July 1971.

11 June 1971       Troopers from C Co, 1st Bn, 502nd Inf, while on a routine patrol in the jungles near FB Veghel, discovered two large enemy huts with adjoining underground bunkers containing 20 B-40 rockets and one 60mm mortar aiming sight. Nearby the infantrymen found six freshly dug enemy graves.

10 July 1971       Colonel Thomas A. Ware Jr. assumed command of the 2nd Brigade of the 101st ABN Div.

02 September 1971       SP4 Gordon L. Kimmel (B/1-502 IN) earned the Purple Heart (Posthumously) for military merit and for wounds received which resulted in his death from other explosive device wounds (Booby Trap) in the Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam.