Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct 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: 15-Aug-1950
Hometown: Jonesboro, Arkansas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 11-Mar-1970
Start of tour: 3-Nov-1970
Incident date: 24-Apr-1971
Date of casualty: 24-Apr-1971
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Bennie Ray Hively was killed while on a military mission when a hostile force was encountered. / Individual on reconnaissance by fire mission, engaged in hostile firefight.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Bennie Ray Hively
SP4 Stephen Alan Spencer
SGT Bruce Donald Stephenson
SP4 Hilbert Walter Teeter
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 618 256
Place of interment: Cash Cemetery, Cash, Arkansas, USA
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