A few of CSM Harry "Bo" Stanfield’s numerous assignments while on active duty included, Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Battalion Aid Station, 25th Infantry Division, Vietnam; Chief Wardmaster Surgical Nursing, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii; 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Kentucky; Command Sergeant Major, 25th Medical Battalion, 25th Infantry Division (Light), 25th Infantry Division (Light) in Hawaii; and Command Sergeant Major of Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora Colorado where he retired from active service in 1994. 

 

Bo received an abundance of awards while proudly serving his country, including the Legion of Merit, National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Star, Vietnam Service Medal with Three Campaign Stars, Army Service Ribbon, Expert Field Medical Badge, Order of Military Medical Merit, Military Order of Saint Barbara, and the Army Medical Department Regimental Award of Excellence.

 

In 1994, post active duty with the US Army, Bo began a new career as an Army Instructor for the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (JROTC) at Miami Carol City Senior High School.  He was selected as the high school’s “Rookie” Teacher of the Year after his first-year teaching in 1995.