The Wall › Panel 36W › Pennsylvania › Ronald Stevens Stepsie
RONALD STEVENS STEPSIE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 13, 1947 – December 12, 1968
Service recordRonald Stevens Stepsie, of Boyertown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 12
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Boyertown, Pennsylvania (Berks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 12
- JAMES ALLEN MERRETTFirst Lieutenant · December 12, 1968
- MICHAEL THOMAS MURPHYWarrant Officer 1 · December 12, 1968
- ANDREW RICHARD SINCHAK JRPrivate First Class · December 12, 1968
- WALTER LEO STARLINGSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEON BELTRANSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 10
- JAMES ALLEN MERRETTFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36W, Line 12
From Boyertown
- CLYDE EDWARD TRIEVEL JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- ALVIN GEORGE MUTTERMajor · September 14, 1968
- TED ROGER MILLERPrivate First Class · April 29, 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.