Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Good Conduct 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: Regular
Date of birth: 26-Dec-1944
Hometown: Greenwood, Indiana
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 23-Jul-1962
Start of tour: 8-Mar-1969
Incident date: 2-Dec-1969
Date of casualty: 2-Dec-1969
Age at death: 24
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Robert Stephen Raines was killed while at a night defensive position when the area came under rocket and mortar attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position (NDP). Came under hostile rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Robert Graham Curl
SSG Robert Stephen Raines
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam, XU 945 274
Place of interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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