Stephen A. Spiers

Service & Sacrifice

Stephen Arthur Spiers was born on February 26, 1946, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the United States Army and trained as a flight-qualified medical NCO, one of the most demanding and dangerous specialties in the Special Forces community.

SP4 Spiers was assigned to Detachment B-52, Project Delta, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. As a medic, his role was to accompany reconnaissance teams into the field and provide emergency medical treatment under fire, or to go in aboard extraction helicopters to treat wounded teammates.

On March 10, 1970, SP4 Spiers was killed in action during operations in South Vietnam. He was 24 years old. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in connection with military operations against the enemy.

His sister Leslie later discovered the remembrances left for him online and was overwhelmed by the messages from fellow soldiers and grateful Americans. She wrote that he was a great young man, loved by his family very much.