CAMP RADCLIFF, VIETNAM --- Sgt John D. Babinsack, 22, whose father, Lon Babinsack, lives at 110 Buffalo St., Pa., reenlisted for six in the Regular Army Sept. 18, while serving with the Air Cavalry Division at Camp Radcliff, Viet Nam.
   Sgt. Babinsack, a squad leader in Company A, 2d Battalion of the division's 12th Cavalry, entered the Army in March 1961, was last assigned at Ft. Knox, Ky. f and arrived overseas in December 1965.
   The sergeant has received the Infantryman's Badge.
   He completed his high school education through a General Educational Development test. His wife, Lora, lives at 110 Buffalo St., Freeport.

[Simpson's Leader-Times, Kittanning, PA, 15 Nov 1966, Tue. Page 17]

Muldraugh GI Dies of Malaria
   An Army staff sergeant from Muldraugh has died of malaria after serving in Vietnam for three months. He was John D. Babinsack, of 119 Walker Road, who died in a hospital at Hue, South Vietnam, Saturday. He was 24.
   Babinsack was native of Freeport, Pa.
   He is survived by his widow, the former Lora Calloway; a son, Victor David Babinsack; his father, Lon Babinsack of Freeport; two sisters, Mrs. James Tamushy, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Virginia Howard, of Breckinridge, Pa., and two brothers, Lon J. and William Babinsack, both of Freeport.
   On arrival from Vietnam, the body will be at W. G. Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway.

[The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 28 Jun 1968, Fri, Page 52]

Staff Sgt. John D. Babinsack's funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Cherry Funeral Home, Freeport, Pa. Burial will also be in Freeport. The body is at W. G. Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway. A memorial service will be held there at 11 a.m. Saturday. Babinsack, 24, of 119 Walker Road, died of malaria in a hospital at Hue, Vietnam, on June 22. He had been in Vietnam three months.

[The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 06 Jul 1968, Sat, Page 11]

Burial record and grave marker for SSgt John D. Babinsack in the Veterans Section, Grave 18, Freeport Cemetery, South Buffalo Township (Armstrong county), Pennsylvania.

John enlisted in the Army on 18 September 1966.  He began his second tour in Vietnam on 3 April 1968 and contracted Malaria which took his life on 22 June 1968.

Although his grave marker states he was in Company A, 505th PIR, he was in C Company 508th PIR at the time of his death.