Rank: Sergeant
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
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: 17-Jan-1947
Hometown: Narragansett, Rhode Island
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Nov-1969
Start of tour: 11-Nov-1970
Incident date: 31-Dec-1970
Date of casualty: 31-Dec-1970
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Dennis Wade Webster was killed while on a military mission when a booby trap detonated. / On dismounted reconnaissance patrol, detonated hostile booby trap.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Roy Lee Chaney
PSG Richard Eugene Dodd
SGT Alfredo Salazar
SGT Dennis Wade Webster
Location of fatality: Binh Thuy, South Vietnam, ZS 125 945
Place of interment: New Fernwood Cemetery, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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