Max Dolan had three heroes in life: John Wayne, Billy Graham and his World War II veteran father. So, the San Gabriel, California, native joined the Army in October 1968
On 24 October 1966, 1st Lt. John F. Cochrane of the 409th Radio Research Detachment (RRD), 303d Radio Research Battalion, was killed by a Viet Cong sniper while looking for a suitable site to set up a PRD-1 direction finder. He was one of two battlefield losses within the detachment.