Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 14-Dec-1944
Hometown: Belmond, Iowa
Marital status: Married to Kathy A. Hinman
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 19-Sep-1966
Start of tour: 30-Aug-1967
Incident date: 19-May-1968
Date of casualty: 23-Jun-1968
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Dwight Earl Hinman died from pneumonia secondary to wounds received while passenger on military vehicle on combat operation when hostile booby trap detonated. Individual admitted to military hospital (12th Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi) and placed on the Very Serious Injury (VSI) list. Evacuation to Japan admitted to a military hospital placed on Very Serious Injured (VSI) list and later expired.
Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Donnie Biarum
SP4 Dwight Earl Hinman
PFC Stanley A. Schroeder
SP4 George Owen Spangler
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 515 006
Place of interment: Belmond Cemetery, Belmond, Iowa, USA
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