Rank: Sergeant
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, 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: 19-Oct-1948
Hometown: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 21-Jun-1968
Start of tour: 26-May-1969
Incident date: 12-Aug-1969
Date of casualty: 12-Aug-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Larry Roman Schmidt was killed while commander of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Track commander of tank on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Marcello Nunez Barrios
1LT Jonathan Paul Hash
SGT Larry Roman Schmidt
SGT Christopher Cutler Webster
SP4 Larry Jay Wheeler
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 784 814
Place of interment: Saint Jerome Cemetery, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
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