Stan Newell was born on August 8, 1947, in Pekin, Illinois. He was drafted into the U.S. Army on September 14, 1966, and completed Basic Training in November 1966. After completing Infantry Training, PFC Newell was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in South Vietnam in January 1967. He was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam on July 12, 1967. After spending 2,064 days in captivity, Staff Sergeant Newell was released during Operation Homecoming on March 5, 1973. He was briefly hospitalized to recover from his injuries and then continued his service in the U.S. Army. SSG Newell attended the Branch Immaterial Officer Candidate Course (BIOCC) with the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was commissioned a 2d Lt of Military Police on January 31, 1975. After additional training as a Military Police Officer, Lt Newell served as a Platoon Leader with the 101st Military Police Company of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, from June 1975 to September 1977. His next assignment was as S2/S3 Officer with the 553rd Military Police Company at Fort Campbell from September 1977 to September 1978, followed by an assignment as a Student Officer at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, to complete his Bachelor's Degree from September 1978 to March 1980. Capt Newell served as a Project Officer with the U.S. Army Military Police & Chemical Schools Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama, from March to June 1980, and he then attended the MP Officer Advanced Course at Fort McClellan from June to December 1980. His next assignment was as Company Commander of Company A, 10th Battalion Training Brigade with the U.S. Army Military Police & Chemical Schools Training Center at Fort McClellan from February 1981 to February 1982, followed by service as Executive Officer and Special Project Officer at the school. Maj Newell served as CTC Course Manager Instructor at the same school from April 1982 to May 1984, and then as Assistant Plans/Operations Officer at Fort Shafter MP Activity, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, beginning in June 1984. LTC Newell completed Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, in 1988, and he retired from the Army on September 1, 1994. Stanley Newell died on January 11, 2024.

His Silver Star Citation reads:

For gallantry and intrepidity in action in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force while a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam on 6 November 1967. Ignoring international agreements on treatment of prisoners of war, the enemy resorted to mental and physical cruelties to obtain information, confessions and propaganda materials. Master Sergeant Anderson resisted their demands by calling upon his deepest inner strengths in a manner which demonstrated great devotion to duty and country in accord with the finest traditions of the military services.