Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1204 – Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 18-Feb-1947
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Marital status: Married to Romona L. Chinquina
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 30-May-1969
Start of tour: 15-Jun-1970
Incident date: 28-Jul-1970
Date of casualty: 28-Jul-1970
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Other Accident. Other accident.
Robert Norris Chinquina was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when the weapon of another vehicle was accidentally discharged striking his vehicle. / Platoon leader and passenger on tank moving out of night defensive position. Another tank accidentally fired its main gun hitting this tank and another tank.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Fredrick Beeler
1LT Robert Norris Chinquina
PFC Dickie Carson Curry
PFC Timothy Allen White
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 220 094
Place of interment: Gardens of Faith Cemetery, Rosedale, Maryland, USA
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