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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Lavern Staman.

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TERRY LAVERN STAMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 10, 1948 – March 22, 1969

Service record

Terry Lavern Staman, of Myrtle Point, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 14

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
September 10, 1948
Home of record
Myrtle Point, Oregon (Coos County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 22, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 14

Same unit, same day

From Myrtle Point

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.