Rank: Private First Class
Unit: A Troop, 1st 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, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 18-Jun-1949
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 5-Feb-1968
Incident date: 19-May-1968
Date of casualty: 19-May-1968
Age at death: 18
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Stanley A. Schroeder died from wound received while driver of military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle hit hostile booby trap.
Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Donnie Biarum
SP4 Dwight Earl Hinman
PFC Stanley A. Schroeder
SP4 George Owen Spangler
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 515 006
Place of interment: Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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