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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 28-Jul-1944
Hometown: Fitzgerald, Georgia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 12-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 26-Oct-1967
Incident date: 26-Apr-1968
Date of casualty: 26-Apr-1968
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
George Rogers Bennett died from fragment wound received while in night defense position when hit by fragment from hostile mortar. He was admitted to 24th Evacuation Hospital where he later expired.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Rogers Bennett
SP4 Steven Clinton Heffner
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, YT 313 264
Place of interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Fitzgerald, Georgia, USA
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