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DARIUS D. GROGG

'SUPER-SOLDIER' --- "Super-grade, super-stripes, and super solider" is the success story of M/Sgt Darius Grogg at Ft. McClellan.  With no distinguishing rank insignia for the new super-grades, Mrs. Grogg and Company commander 1st Lt Joseph Stone decided  to give newly-appointed M/Sgt Grogg stripes truly benefitting his new rank.  Perhaps the youngest E-8 to attain the new grade, the 33-year old soldier, first sergeant of the 69th Chemical Company, was cited for his superior efficiency.
[The Anniston Star, Anniston AL, 12 December 1958, Page 28]

The Anniston Star, Anniston AL reported that Sgt Major Grogg had served with the 508th in Germany.

[The Anniston Star, Anniston AL, 14 September 1961, Page 18]

Death Certificate
for Darius Grogg states that he succumbed to an Acute Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) in the Womack Army Hospital, ft Bragg, NC on 5 March 1971.  He was just 44 years old at the time.

Grave marker for Darius D. Grogg in Section 7C of Sharon Memorial Park Charlotte (Mecklenburg county), North Carolina.

Darius enlisted in the Army at Ft Bragg, NC ca 1942 and re-enlisted as a Pfc on 2 November 1945.

He served as a Sergeant Major before being commissioned, retiring as a Major.

 

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