Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 63B – Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 20-Apr-1945
Hometown: Rochester, Wisconsin
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Oct-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 2-Feb-1967
Date of casualty: 2-Feb-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Robert Volnie Bair was a passenger in a military vehicle when the vehicle hit a hostile land mine.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident
SP4 Robert Volnie Bair
SP4 James Eskel Forsman
PFC Larry Earl Smith
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, Wisconsin, USA
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