Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: C Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device and Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 4-Dec-1948
Hometown: Lagrange, Maine
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 18-Apr-1968
Start of tour: 9-Jun-1969
Incident date: 6-Sep-1969
Date of casualty: 6-Sep-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Larry Daniel Boobar was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Passenger on Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) on reconnaissance in force mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Larry Daniel Boobar
SGT Bobby Gene Haynes
SSG Wayne Jackson Sanders
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 745 001
Place of interment: Medford Center Cemetery, Medford, Maine, USA
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BRONZE STAR MEDAL
WITH VALOR DEVICE AND OAK LEAF CLUSTER
POSTHUMOUS
SPECIALIST FOUR LARRY D BOOBAR
6 SEPTEMBER 1969
C TROOP, 1st SQUADRON
11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT
Specialist Four Boobar distinguished himself by heroism in connection with ground operations against a hostile force on 6 September 1969 while serving as a machine gunner with Troop C, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in the Republic of Vietnam. On this date Troop C was called to reinforce another troop which was engaged in heavy contact with an estimated battalion of North Vietnamese Army soldiers. As it approached the area, it came under intense barrage of small arms, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire. In the initial moments of contact the lead Sheridan was severely damaged and unable to continue. Specialist Boobar’s vehicle immediately assumed the lead. As the only machine gunner on the assault vehicle, he placed effective suppressive fire on the enemy positions while continually exposed to the hostile fusillade. His accurate fire pinned down several enemy positions, enabling the troop to close and eliminate the emplacements. Later during the firefight, a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his vehicle, killing Specialist Boobar as he was continuing his mission. Specialist Boobar’s courage: and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.
Headquarters, II Field Force Vietnam General Orders No. 3810 (5 November 1969)