Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 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: Parachutist Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 8-Sep-1948
Hometown: Madison Heights, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Jul-1969
Start of tour: 15-Aug-1970
Incident date: 17-Sep-1970
Date of casualty: 17-Sep-1970
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Ronald Lester Huxtable was killed while on a combat operation when a booby trap detonated. / On search and clear mission. Detonated hostile booby trap, and engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Walter Wesley Hutton
SP4 Ronald Lester Huxtable
PFC John Richard Tamburri Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 795 276
Place of interment: Oakview Cemetery, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
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