Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: F Troop, 2nd 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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 26-Dec-1938
Hometown: Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 22-Nov-1961
Start of tour: 8-Jul-1967
Incident date: 26-Sep-1968
Date of casualty: 26-Sep-1968
Age at death: 29
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Ronald Ray Walls died from wound received while commander of military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle hit hostile mine. / (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao.)
Three Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Ronnie Louis Pounds
PFC George John Smith Jr
SSG Ronald Ray Walls
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Juniata Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown, Pennsylvania, USA
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