HONORED ON PANEL 10W, LINE 112 OF THE WALL
ROBERT RAYMOND BERNING
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ROBERT R BERNING
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LEFT FOR ROBERT RAYMOND BERNING
POSTED ON 2.25.2024
POSTED BY: ANON
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Your sacrifice is not forgotten.
GARRYOWEN
GARRYOWEN
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POSTED ON 8.12.2023
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Burial information
Cpl Robert Berning is buried at Saint Stephen Cemetery in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
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POSTED ON 7.9.2021
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you....
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us...
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POSTED ON 2.25.2021
POSTED BY: Dennis Wriston
I'm proud of our Vietnam Veterans
Corporal Robert Raymond Berning, Served with Company C, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army Vietnam.
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POSTED ON 7.20.2020
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Final Mission of PFC Robert R. Berning
The Cambodian Incursion was a brief series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in 1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an extension of the Vietnam War. The objective was to defeat the approximately 40,000 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC) soldiers which sought sanctuary in the eastern border regions of the country. While deployed to Cambodia, C Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division operated out of FSB Neal, a temporary firing base constructed inside the country to provide fire support to infantry units conducting search and destroy missions. C Company patrols focused on locating and destroying the caches of food, weapons, and ammunition of the enemy and capturing the elusive headquarters of the NVA/VC, known as the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN). On May 28, 1970, they uncovered a large underground cache containing a variety of supplies, including Bic pens, sweatshirts, and medical supplies. They even located a small donkey cart which was used to haul the confiscated materials to a hastily cleared landing zone (LZ) for removal. In the evening, to the delight of the company, a “log bird” (resupply helicopter) brought in a hot meal of wieners and sauerkraut. After dinner, some men returned to the task of hauling the cache to the LZ. While two of the troopers were pushing the cart, the prop wash of a helicopter entering the LZ caused a large branch to break and fall to the forest floor. The heavy limb landed on infantryman PFC Robert R. Berning. It took several men to lift the branch so the medics could work on the critically injured soldier. They found a multitude of injuries, including a fractured skull, broken neck, several broken ribs, a fractured right arm, and a crushed chest. Despite a robust heartbeat and the best efforts of the medics, they were unable to revive him, and Berning soon expired. He was posthumously promoted to Corporal. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, wikipedia.org, and information provided by Platoon Leader Thom Vollmar (June 2020) and the poem “The Meal” by medic Gary “Doc” Cramer]
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