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STEPHEN JONATHAN GEIST
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 12, 1946 – September 26, 1967
Service recordStephen Jonathan Geist, of Silver Spring, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 26, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · 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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Silver Spring, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 26, 1967
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 27E, Line 15
- DEAN LEE GRETENCORDPrivate First Class · September 26, 1967
- JEROME CECIL HADLEYPrivate First Class · September 26, 1967
- JIMMY DALE HATFIELDPrivate First Class · September 26, 1967
- JOHNNY VANCE HAYESStaff Sergeant · September 26, 1967
From Silver Spring
- WAYNE THOMAS LUNDELLSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- TERRY WINTERMOYERSpecialist Four · November 22, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD LOVELance Corporal · December 5, 1965
- JOHN MICHAEL BOWERSLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- WILLIAM ARTHUR STACY JRCaptain · March 21, 1966
- RICHARD CLIFTON SMITHCorporal · April 6, 1966
- RALPH SIMONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BOEHMPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- ROBERT HATCHER SWAINPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- WILLIAM ANTHONY WILKSecond Lieutenant · July 29, 1967
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.