Rank: Sergeant
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 64B – Heavy Vehicle Driver
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 7-Mar-1947
Hometown: Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Apr-1967
Start of tour: 26-Apr-1969
Incident date: 9-Jul-1969
Date of casualty: 9-Jul-1969
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Thomas Jackson Barnes Jr was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when a hostile force was encountered. / Passenger on 5 ton truck on convoy mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Five Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SGT Thomas Jackson Barnes Jr
SP4 Earl Lloyd Cook
SP5 John Bruce Cornwell
SGT Jimmie Charles Scrogum
1LT Carl Douglas Shirley
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 738 930
Place of interment: Youngers Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA
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