Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 36K – Tactical Wire Operations Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, 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: 6-Jun-1946
Hometown: Jonesville, North Carolina
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 24-Jan-1968
Start of tour: 29-Nov-1968
Incident date: 7-Jul-1969
Date of casualty: 7-Jul-1969
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Killed In Action. Gun or small arms fire. Small Arms Fire.
David Wayne Shaffner was at base camp on guard duty. Another individual on guard duty started firing from the top of bunker toward perimeter. Shaffner stuck his head out of bunker to see what firing was about and was hit by round.
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YT 430 045
Place of interment: Fall Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Jonesville, North Carolina, USA
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