Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd 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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 10-Oct-1947
Hometown: Kenner, Louisiana
Marital status: Married to Carol L. Pounds
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 23-Jul-1967
Start of tour: 12-Jan-1968
Incident date: 28-Sep-1968
Date of casualty: 28-Sep-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Ronnie Louis Pounds died from wounds received while driver of military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle hit hostile mine. Individual was admitted to military hospital, placed on the Serious Injury (SI) list and later expired.
Three Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Ronnie Louis Pounds
PFC George John Smith Jr
SSG Ronald Ray Walls
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Providence Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
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