Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 3rd platoon, Track L-32
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 27-May-1946
Hometown: Newark, New Jersey
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 3-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 23-Aug-1966
Incident date: 8-Apr-1967
Date of casualty: 8-Apr-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Robert Richard Huster was passenger on armored personnel carrier which was hit by hostile recoilless rifle round.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, New Jersey, USA
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