Sgt Toney #18755862
MOS: 11B4P Infantryman (Airborne Quail.)
Sgt Toney was a Light Weapons Infantryman assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), U.S. Army; Vietnam [USARV]. Deployed start tour date 15 Dec 1967.
He was survived by his parents, Thomas Benjamin and Norma Cecile Thomas Toney and siblings, of Louisiana.
During the last week of February 1968, in the midst of the Tet Offensive, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, was fighting in the borderlands between Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces in northern-most South Vietnam (Operation Jeb Stuart). In addition to the wounded, the Battalion lost nine men killed in action during that week. Sgt Toney was one of those wounded (22 Feb 1968), two and a half years later Richard died as a result of gunshot wounds to the body from hostile small arms fire (31 August 1970).
MOS: 11B4P Infantryman (Airborne Quail.)
Sgt Toney was a Light Weapons Infantryman assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), U.S. Army; Vietnam [USARV]. Deployed start tour date 15 Dec 1967.
He was survived by his parents, Thomas Benjamin and Norma Cecile Thomas Toney and siblings, of Louisiana.
During the last week of February 1968, in the midst of the Tet Offensive, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, was fighting in the borderlands between Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces in northern-most South Vietnam (Operation Jeb Stuart). In addition to the wounded, the Battalion lost nine men killed in action during that week. Sgt Toney was one of those wounded (22 Feb 1968), two and a half years later Richard died as a result of gunshot wounds to the body from hostile small arms fire (31 August 1970).
Sgt Toney #18755862
MOS: 11B4P Infantryman (Airborne Quail.)
Sgt Toney was a Light Weapons Infantryman assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), U.S. Army; Vietnam [USARV]. Deployed start tour date 15 Dec 1967.
He was survived by his parents, Thomas Benjamin and Norma Cecile Thomas Toney and siblings, of Louisiana.
During the last week of February 1968, in the midst of the Tet Offensive, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, was fighting in the borderlands between Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces in northern-most South Vietnam (Operation Jeb Stuart). In addition to the wounded, the Battalion lost nine men killed in action during that week. Sgt Toney was one of those wounded (22 Feb 1968), two and a half years later Richard died as a result of gunshot wounds to the body from hostile small arms fire (31 August 1970).
MOS: 11B4P Infantryman (Airborne Quail.)
Sgt Toney was a Light Weapons Infantryman assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), U.S. Army; Vietnam [USARV]. Deployed start tour date 15 Dec 1967.
He was survived by his parents, Thomas Benjamin and Norma Cecile Thomas Toney and siblings, of Louisiana.
During the last week of February 1968, in the midst of the Tet Offensive, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, was fighting in the borderlands between Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces in northern-most South Vietnam (Operation Jeb Stuart). In addition to the wounded, the Battalion lost nine men killed in action during that week. Sgt Toney was one of those wounded (22 Feb 1968), two and a half years later Richard died as a result of gunshot wounds to the body from hostile small arms fire (31 August 1970).
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