Harned, Gary Alan
Army Sergeant 1st Class

Gary Alan Harned, age 19, from Springboro, Pennsylvania, Crawford county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: March 24, 1970
Death details: On February 15, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Gary Alan Harned, missing from the Vietnam War.

Sergeant First Class Harned joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On March 24, 1970, he was a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia, that was extracted from the mission area by a UH-1H Iroquois. After picking up the patrol, the Iroquois suffered an explosion that caused it to crash. Sergeant First Class Harned was killed in the incident. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented immediate ground investigations of the UH-1H’s crash site. In April 1995, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team recovered remains associated with the loss of this helicopter. In 2001, U.S. analysts identified some of the recovered remains as those of SFC Harned.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency