Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 05C – Radio Teletype Operator
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 7-Jun-1948
Hometown: North Tonawanda, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 10-Apr-1968
Start of tour: 2-Dec-1968
Incident date: 18-Jun-1969
Date of casualty: 18-Jun-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Daryl Jay Schmidt was killed while in base camp when the area came under rocket attack by a hostile force. / At base camp. Came under hostile rocket attack.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Daryl Jay Schmidt
SP4 Edwin Francis Turk Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 814 908
Place of interment: Elmlawn Cemetery, Tonawanda, New York, USA
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