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STEEN BRUCE FOSTER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 13, 1948 – May 14, 1970
Service recordSteen Bruce Foster, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 40
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 40
- ALLEN LEWIS BONEYStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1970
- JAMES CHARLES DAIGLEStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1970
- GARY MARK DOMINIQUEPrivate First Class · May 14, 1970
- LAWRENCE RAYMOND GEIGERSergeant · May 14, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ALLEN LEWIS BONEYStaff Sergeant · Panel 10W, Line 40
- JAMES LEE LOISELCorporal · Panel 10W, Line 42
From Waukegan
- WALTER WILLIAM BROWNSpecialist Five · November 5, 1965
- DAVID E BURKESPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL MCCARTHY MANNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 7, 1967
- EDWARD STEVEN SACCOSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- PETER JOSEPH CANELAKESPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
- ERHARDT WILLIAM MATHIESENSergeant · November 22, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 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.