Ronald Marvin Beeck

Ronald Marvin Beeck was from Miles in Jackson County. He was drafted into the Army and began serving in South Vietnam in October 1967. He earned the rank of Specialist 4 while serving as an Infantryman in the First Cavalry Division. On April 6, 1968, SP4 Beeck died in a Naval Hospital from wounds he suffered in a firefight during Operation Pegasus in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. He was 23 years old at the time of his death.