Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 16-Feb-1949
Hometown: Davisburg, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 7-Aug-1967
Start of tour: 28-Aug-1968
Incident date: 21-Dec-1968
Date of casualty: 21-Dec-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Drowning. Drowned, suffocated.
Richard Charles Bachert drowned while in military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle overturned in water while engaging hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Richard Charles Bachert
PVT Earl William Thomas Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Michigan, USA
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