Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 30-Apr-1946
Hometown: Watertown, Wisconsin
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 2-Dec-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 5-Jul-1967
Date of casualty: 5-Jul-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Other explosive device.
Ronald Dean Shepherd was passenger in military vehicle when vehicle hit hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Quang Tin, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Glenview Memorial Gardens, Ixonia, Wisconsin, USA
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