SSG Willie J. Dinkins Sr., 73, U.S. Army, born in South Carolina August 18, 1947, passed away on August 27, 2020. Dinkins served two tours in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne. He was part of the 557th Combat Tracker Team and would hunt down retreating enemy forces after ambushes and firefights and relay their location to our infantry units. Prior to the military, Dinkins was a champion for equal rights. He was very involved in the civil rights movement and proudly held the most arrests for protesting from 1962-1965. Rest easy, Soldier! Til Valhalla, Brother!