Rank: Sergeant
Unit: I Troop, 3rd 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: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 1st platoon
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 14-Jul-1948
Hometown: Tarpon Springs, Florida
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 19-May-1967
Incident date: 9-May-1968
Date of casualty: 9-May-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
John Millard Schneider died from wounds received while enroute to night defensive position when hit by fragments from hostile rocket.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Joseph Nick D‘Ambra
SGT John Millard Schneider
SP4 Larry Lee Tolliver
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Florida, USA
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