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GARY ALAN STADING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 10, 1947 – April 25, 1968
Service recordGary Alan Stading, of Orange, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 11
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Orange, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 11
- BROCK ROWLAND SCHRAMMPrivate First Class · April 25, 1968
- DAVID LEE SCOTTSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
- FRED SENA JRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CARMELLO ANGE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 2
- RONALD JAMES COLONESpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 6
From Orange
- JOHN MICHAEL PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · May 3, 1966
- MICHAEL WALTER KOLEMAINENPrivate First Class · October 31, 1966
- BOBBY WESTSergeant · January 21, 1968
- RAYMOND NELSON CURLEYSpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- KENNETH TILDEN RABEYSergeant · March 16, 1968
- DAVID ARTHUR ROSENBERGERSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN WAYSACKCorporal · May 9, 1968
- RUSSELL UDELL WESTLance Corporal · May 23, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES TODDPrivate · November 1, 1968
- DENNIS EUGENE NAYLORPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.