Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 31-Oct-1951
Hometown: Orange, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 21-Nov-1968
Start of tour: 24-Jan-1970
Incident date: 10-Aug-1970
Date of casualty: 10-Aug-1970
Age at death: 18
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Neal Vincent Bainter was killed while driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a mine detonated. / Driver on Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) on resupply mission, vehicle detonated hostile mine.
Three Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Neal Vincent Bainter
PVT Joseph Frank Marcantonio
SGT William Lester Wilhelm
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 910 308
Place of interment: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California, USA
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