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ROBERT JOSEPH STATEN
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
November 7, 1947 – February 7, 1968
Service recordRobert Joseph Staten, of Ontario, California, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 15
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- November 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Ontario, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; 42 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 38E, Line 15
- ROBERT HARRY SODENSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- SAMUEL LUVENE SQUARRELLSergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- ARTHUR ALLYN STEPHENSSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- JOHN ANTHONY SURGALSKIPrivate · February 7, 1968
From Ontario
- MICHAEL JOSEPH SOTHCaptain · June 21, 1966
- GILBERT FERRANTECorporal · August 13, 1966
- ERVIN LOVELLPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- LARRY CHARLES HOPPERPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- GRIDLEY BARSTOW STRONGPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- DARYEL JOE YOUNGPrivate First Class · June 22, 1968
- WILLIAM EARL MCDAVIDSpecialist Four · August 7, 1968
- BRUCE WAYNE COLLINSSergeant · August 14, 1968
- ANTONINO RUGGERISpecialist Four · February 12, 1969
- DAVID JAY HUFFMANCorporal · March 26, 1969
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.