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RONALD FLOYD KEENER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 29, 1949 – December 10, 1969
Service recordRonald Floyd Keener, of Burney, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Burney, California (Shasta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 45
- ROBERT ROGER ALLMERSSpecialist Four · December 10, 1969
- CHAD LEONARD CARSONSergeant · December 10, 1969
- JAMES FITZROY GHEECorporal · December 10, 1969
- KENNETH WAYNE SMARRCorporal · December 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHAD LEONARD CARSONSergeant · Panel 15W, Line 45
From Burney
- LAWRENCE WAYNE YOCHUMSpecialist Four · February 13, 1970
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.