The Wall › Panel 15W › Indiana › Robert Stephen Raines
ROBERT STEPHEN RAINES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 26, 1944 – December 2, 1969
Service recordRobert Stephen Raines, of Greenwood, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 2, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 20
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- December 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Greenwood, Indiana (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1969; six of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 20
- MARVIN HOWARD SANDERSCorporal · December 2, 1969
- MICHAEL HENRY SHANLEY JRSergeant First Class · December 2, 1969
- JONATHAN TOWNSENDStaff Sergeant · December 2, 1969
- DENNIS LEE VANCEStaff Sergeant · December 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT GRAHAM CURLStaff Sergeant · Panel 15W, Line 16
From Greenwood
- RICHARD PATRICK BLANTONSergeant · April 30, 1969
- WILLIAM JAMES KARASCorporal · July 31, 1969
- LARRY JAMES RIGNEYPrivate First Class · May 19, 1970
- ROBERT WAYNE VEHLINGCaptain · January 11, 1972
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.